Prep roundup: Hunter Hernandez leads Mitty to a rout of O’Dowd in girls basketball
Welcome back to the Bay Area News Group (Mercury News & East Bay Times) prep roundup. Here’s the best of Saturday’s action in boys and girls basketball, baseball and softball:
Girls basketball
No. 1 Archbishop Mitty 78, No. 4 Bishop O’Dowd 26
The gap this spring between Archbishop Mitty and at least one team in the Bay Area News Group’s Top 5 is pretty decisive.
Saturday, the top-ranked Monarchs traveled to Oakland for a matchup against No. 4 Bishop O’Dowd and returned to San Jose with a one-sided victory.
The Monarchs led 18-10 after the first quarter and 47-18 at halftime.
Mitty allowed eight points in the second half to improve to 4-1.
Hunter Hernandez scored 20 points to lead the Monarchs. Olivia Williams added 13 points and Siena Guttadauro and Marley Langi each finished with 11 points.
Since opening the season with a 73-63 loss to St. Mary’s of Stockton, Mitty has outscored its opponents by an average of 50.5 points per game.
O’Dowd (3-2) was coming off decisive victories of its own. The Dragons had beaten Alameda 81-21 and last year’s NorCal Open Division runner-up St. Joseph Notre Dame 74-47.
MORE: Scroll to the bottom of the roundup for additional Mitty-O’Dowd pictures
No. 8 San Ramon Valley 86, California 58
The venue changed, but Natalie Pasco’s hot shooting did not.
One day after scoring 41 points in a victory at home over California, Pasco had even more points when the teams met Saturday in San Ramon. She finished with 46 points and 15 rebounds as the Wolves won for the third consecutive day to open the season.
Kelly Tumlin had 27 points for California (1-5).
San Ramon Valley led by 10 at halftime and stretched its advantage to 14 at the end of the third quarter. The Wolves doubled the margin in the fourth.
No. 10 Miramonte 66, No. 9 Heritage 64
In a game that was tight throughout, Miramonte, playing at home in Orinda, edged Heritage in a matchup of undefeated teams.
Julia Miller (23 points), Jordan Allred (13 points) and Daniella Resch (11 points) led the way for Miramonte, which improved to 6-0.
Heritage fell to 4-1.
Today, the Matadors play host to No. 11 Carondelet, now led by Miramonte’s former coach, Kelly Sopak.
Carondelet is 4-0 after rolling past Doughtery Valley 72-42 on Saturday.
Boys basketball
No. 1 Campolindo 56, No. 6 Bishop O’Dowd 47
Campolindo, playing on its home court in Moraga, rallied in the fourth quarter in this highly anticipated matchup to stay undefeated.
O’Dowd (4-3) led 41-38 after three quarters but was outscored 18-7 in the fourth.
Emmanuel Callas (20 points) and Shane O’Reilly (15 points) led Campo (9-0), which lost star junior Aidan Mahaney midway through the first quarter after he cut his hand trying to catch a lob pass near the basket.
Jalen Lewis had 12 points and 12 rebounds for O’Dowd.
MORE ON THIS GAME: Read here how Campo has become the epicenter of Bay Area boys basketball
No. 7 Dublin 59, Foothill 51
Dublin completed a sweep of Foothill with a big fourth quarter on the road in Pleasanton.
Foothill led by five points after the first quarter and by four at halftime. The score was tied entering the fourth quarter before Dublin took charge.
TJ Meagher had 21 points and six rebounds, Courtney Anderson finished with 15 points and Donovan Cooks added 14 points, eight rebounds and five assists to lead Dublin (2-0).
Nick High and Ani Murugesan each scored 12 points for Foothill (1-5).
Dublin has five games this week: Today vs. Bellarmine, Tuesday vs. Dougherty Valley, Thursday vs. Archbishop Mitty, Friday vs. De La Salle and Saturday at De La Salle.
No. 8 Archbishop Riordan 72, No. 13 Half Moon Bay 48
Riordan rolled at home in San Francisco to win for the second consecutive game after a two-game skid.
Robert Vaihola had 14 points, Lee Hubbard scored 12 points and Zion Sensley and King-Njhsanni Wilhite each added 10 points to lead Riordan (4-2).
Half Moon Bay (10-2) had won nine in a row, including victories over three of Riordan’s West Catholic Athletic League rivals: Serra, Sacred Heart Cathedral and St. Francis.
No. 10 De La Salle 69, No. 14 Dougherty Valley 57
De La Salle, playing on the road in San Ramon, roared to a 24-9 lead after the first quarter and went on to complete a two-game sweep of Dougherty Valley.
The winners had four players score in double figures: Christian Carter (17), Chris Bunch (14), Joe Buhlman-Anders (13) and Alonzo Washington (12).
De La Salle is still missing injured standout Miles Daniels.
Jacoby Lacey (19 points), Aidan Sevilla (18 points) and Ryan Beasley (11 points) led Dougherty Valley, which fell to 1-4.
De La Salle (5-2) plays host to No. 1 Campolindo on Tuesday.
Baseball
Sacred Heart Cathedral 11, No. 2 Serra 1
Serra’s five-game winning streak and dominance of the WCAL’s San Francisco schools ended in emphatic fashion on the road in Daly City on Saturday.
With the score tied 1-1 after three innings, SHC scored two in the fourth and eight in the fifth to send Serra to its first league defeat. The Padres had three-game sweeps or St. Ignatius and Riordan and two victories last week over SHC before the loss Saturday.
Matt Lofberg, Lucas Kelly and Aidan Taclas each knocked in two runs for the Irish (11-6), who also got strong pitching from Jaime Gomez, Cristian Padilla and Liam McGrath.
MORE: Scroll to the bottom of the roundup for additional SHC-Serra pictures
No. 1 Valley Christian 10, No. 11 St. Francis 0
Valley Christian, playing at home in San Jose, avoided a three-game series sweep by St. Francis with a decisive victory.
Jeff Heard led Valley with three hits and two RBIs. He also scored twice.
Griffin Allen allowed one hit over five innings and Jacob Hudson pitched two hitless innings to finish off the victory.
No. 5 Archbishop Mitty 3, Bellarmine 2
Matthew Halbach homered and knocked in two runs as Mitty (11-3) rallied to complete a three-game sweep of Bellarmine.
The Monarchs trailed 2-1 after six innings.
Bellarmine fell to 6-12.
Softball
Newark Memorial 16, American 4
Keithleen Gonzalez went 3 for 4 with a home run and a double and drove in five runs to lead Newark Memorial to a victory in Mission Valley Athletic League play.
Kayla Gonzalez also homered and had two RBIs for Newark Memorial.
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