Archbishop Mitty coach Tim Kennedy, proven right here in a photograph from final spring, has his staff on the high of the West Catholic Athletic League standings. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Space Information Group)
Boys basketball
Archbishop Mitty improved to 4-0 within the West Catholic Athletic League boys basketball standings Wednesday night time with a barrage of 3-pointers in a 56-46 street win over Archbishop Riordan.
The Monarchs, 11-3 general and ranked No. 2 within the Bay Space Information Group’s high 20, nailed 12 3-point pictures, all by members of the beginning 5.
Riordan (8-5, 2-1), which misplaced to Mitty within the Central Coast Part Open Division remaining final spring, had six 3-point baskets.
Aidan Burke led the way in which with 20 factors for Mitty, 17 of these within the second half. Jaiden Paran had 11 factors.
Riordan is Tenth on this week’s BANG rankings.
Seventh-ranked Serra, which opened WCAL play by successful three in a row, was hammered by St. Francis 61-38. The Padres have now misplaced their final two league video games and sit at 10-4 general.
St. Francis broke out of a 1-3 skid in league play with the one-sided win.
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In different WCAL motion, Sacred Coronary heart Cathedral outlasted Valley Christian 74-65 and St. Ignatius routed Bellarmine 57-31. The Bells fell to 0-5 within the WCAL.
De La Salle 58, Dublin 51
For 3 quarters, No. 6 De La Salle did absolutely anything it wished in opposition to Eleventh-ranked Dublin. The Spartans (12-4) led the guests 48-25 heading to the fourth quarter.
However the gifted Gaels (9-4) threw a little bit of a scare into De La Salle, closing to inside single digits within the remaining minute.
De La Salle did most of its injury within the second and third quarters, outscoring Dublin 31-12 in these two intervals. The Gaels had been held to 3 free throws within the third quarter.
Javon Johnson had 15 factors for the Spartans, and Jordan Webster had 13, all within the second half.
Dublin’s scoring leaders had been Courtney Anderson Jr. with 12 factors and Donovan Cooks with 11.
Elsewhere
No. 4 Dougherty Valley (15-1) continued to roll with a 68-53 East Bay Athletic League victory over California (9-6). The Wildcats led by a degree on the half, then outscored Cal 37-23 after intermission. … Moreau Catholic, which is ranked fifteenth, put three gamers in double figures and rolled previous Kennedy-Fremont 74-40. Matthew Villanueva had 15 factors, adopted by Kellen Hampton with 13 and Robert Morgan II with 10. Trey Knight had eight assists. … Monte Vista rebounded from an 18-point loss to Saratoga and upset 14th-ranked San Ramon Valley 56-51. SRV is 8-4, Monte Vista is 8-7. … Silver Creek received 20 factors from James Caricungan and 14 from Apollo Eugene whereas handing No. 20 Leland its first lack of the season after a 14-0 begin. The Raiders (12-4) outscored Leland 34-17 within the second half after trailing 33-26 on the break. Jacob Kuverji had 13 factors for Leland.
Women basketball
Carondelet will host the nine-game Sabrina Ionescu Showcase on Saturday starting at 8:30 a.m. It'll characteristic an enormous assortment of the most effective ladies highschool gamers in Northern California.
Ionescu was a star at Miramonte underneath Kelly Sopak, who's now the coach at Carondelet. She then grew to become the NCAA ladies’s Participant of the 12 months at Oregon earlier than being drafted by the New York Liberty of the WNBA.
Seven of the highest 10 groups on this week’s Bay Space Information Group Prime 20 will take part, as will No. 18 Pinole Valley. The seven high 10 groups are top-ranked Carondelet, No. 2 Mitty, No. 4 St. Ignatius, No. 5 Pinewood, No. 6 Bishop O’Dowd, No. 9 Monte Vista and Tenth-ranked Heritage.
The person expertise is eye-popping. It begins with the highest three seniors within the Bay Space: O’Dowd ahead Amaya Bonner (Cal signee), Pinewood guard Elle Ladine (Washington) and Carondelet guard Talana Lepolo (Stanford). All acquired four-star rankings and high 100 nationwide rankings from ESPN.
Different high recruits embody 6-foot-4 Heritage junior Amanda Muse, sophomore guard Morgan Cheli from Mitty, St. Ignatius senior guard Sabrina Ma, Woodside Priory senior ahead Valentina Saric, Menlo senior ahead Sharon Nejad, Monte Vista senior heart Sarah Brans, Oakland Tech junior level guard Erin Sellers, St. Mary’s-Stockton sophomore Jordan Lee and Folsom freshman guard Ava Rawlins.
Muse may be the most effective of the bunch. She stands 6-foot-4 and just lately narrowed her selection of schools to a remaining six of Duke, Notre Dame, Oregon State, Stanford, UCLA and Washington.
Right here’s the schedule:
Las Lomas vs. Piedmont, 8:30 a.m.
Lincoln (Stockton) vs. Menlo Faculty, 10 a.m.
Pinole Valley vs. Woodside Priory, 11:30 a.m.
Folsom vs. Archbishop Mitty, 1 p.m.
Lick-Wilmerding vs. Bishop O’Dowd, 2:30 p.m.
Monte Vista vs. Pinewood, 4 p.m.
Oakland Tech vs. Clovis West, 5:30 a.m.
Heritage vs. Carondelet, 7 p.m.
St. Ignatius vs. St. Mary’s (Stockton), 8:30 p.m.
Wednesday’s ladies video games
Regardless of having performed just one recreation over the previous three weeks, Carondelet seemed prefer it hadn’t missed a beat in thumping Dublin 77-22. The Cougars (12-1) led 48-8 on the half in opposition to the 8-6 Gaels. AshleyLewis had 10 factors and Kendall Cason 10 rebounds for Carondelet. … No. 15 Los Gatos edged Los Altos 42-41 behind 14 factors from Nicole Steiner and 10 from Ashley Childers. Each gamers are freshmen. Los Gatos is 13-1 general and 2-0 within the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League’s De Anza Division. Mira Sundar had a career-high 12 factors for Los Altos (10-4, 2-3) and Macy Watson added 10. … Madison Thomas poured in 20 factors as No. 11 Moreau Catholic (12-3, 5-0 Mission Valley) rolled previous Kennedy-Fremont 66-21. … SarahChan buried a 3-pointer with two seconds left in No. 20 American’s 54-52 win over Washington-Fremont. Junior guard Asha Walker had 28 factors, together with six 3-pointers, and eight rebounds for American (11-2, 5-1 Mission Valley). Nicole Lukito had 15 rebounds for the winners.
Soccer
Liberty seeks new coach
Liberty athletic director Andrew Lonsdale mentioned he hopes to have a brand new soccer coach nicely earlier than spring ball in Might, and that the brand new man received’t essentially should be a instructor.
Earlier coach Matt Hoefs resigned on Friday after two seasons. He took over after the 2019 season for Ryan Partridge, who left after three years to turn into a school assistant.
Though being a instructor won't be a requirement, Lonsdale mentioned, “We want somebody who will probably be accessible (on-campus) each day. If now we have a coach who can’t get right here till 3:30, that might be tough.”
As for Hoefs’ choice to depart, Lonsdale mentioned, “It caught us a bit of bit unexpectedly. The final couple of years has been a battle for the entire coaches. Quite a lot of them are feeling the burden of additional duties being placed on them due to the pandemic.”
The soccer opening at Liberty is predicted to be posted no later than subsequent week, Lonsdale mentioned. He added that there have already been fairly just a few inquiries.
“It doesn’t seem to be we’ll be wanting candidates,” he mentioned.
Liberty needs to be a gorgeous job. It was 34-5 and received a state title in Partridge’s three seasons (2017-2019, and was 9-6 in Hoef’s two seasons. It’s the most important of three excessive faculties within the Liberty Union Excessive Faculty District with virtually 2,800 college students as of the 2019-2020 college yr.