With 2 rainouts, the Bears played only one game last week, facing the Alma Heights Eagles on Tuesday. After allowing the first two Eagles hitters to score, the Bears turned things around and held Alma Heights scoreless for the rest of the game. Pitchers Florence Filiai and Victoria Sanie combined to hold the Eagles to just one hit. On offense, the Bears were led by F. Filiai with 3 RBI and Sarah Scandalios with 2 RBI and benefitted from numerous walks given up by Eagles pitchers, cruising to a 20-2 run rule victory in 3 innings. This week the Bears begin League play, with home games against San Mateo on Tuesday, March 15 and Castilleja on Thursday, March 17, and a road game against El Camino on Friday.

On the offensive end the Bears were lead by senior Kevin Shimbo who had two hits, along with junior Nick Prainito who had a triple. Senior Bret Rodrigues and junior James Sullivan each added a hit to the attack. FINAL SCORE:  El Camino 1    M-A 5
 
On Wednesday March 2, the Bears again were at home, this time hosting Riordan High out of San Francisco. Ryan Klapper got his second start of the season and was outstanding
and in complete control the entire way. The senior notched the Bears first complete
game of the season, while allowing only one earned run and striking out four.
Senior catcher Matt Johnston put on a clinic behind the plate throwing out three
Riordan runners trying to steal bases. At the plate the team managed only to scatter five singles, with seniors Klapper, Johnston, Rodrigues along with junior Oliver Bley and sophomore Miles Conrad, getting the hits. FINAL SCORE:   Riordan  1    M-A  4
 
The Bears were back at it on Wednesday March 9 as they traveled down to Westmont and into a pitchers duel. Senior Nick Olson threw a dominating four innings allowing only one earned run. Freshman Daniel Burke then took the mound in relief and did a fantastic job, retiring six Warrior hitters while allowing no hits, and no runs. The Bears offense could only muster two hits and lost a close one. FINAL SCORE:  M-A  0    Westmont   1

This past Friday the Bears traveled down to Leland High for a tournament game against Mitty. The Bears again got very strong pitching form Kris Liang (starter) and Hunter Sevy (in relief), and also strong defense. The offense though could only produce four hits, with a long double by Senior Bret Rodrigues and singles by senior Matt Johston, junior Oliver Bley, and sophomore Miles Conrad.  FINAL SCORE: M-A  1   Mitty  4

The team starts league play against rival Sacred Heart Prep on Wednesday, March 16, at 4 pm  Come fill the stands and support the team!

Boys JV Baseball

The JV Bears started the week by hosting Westmont High School (Campbell) with the most exciting game of the season to date. Both teams were scoreless through 3 innings when, in the top of the 4th, Westmont loaded the bases with one out. Pitcher, Anthony Waller forced each of the next two batters, in each case with two strikes, to hit comebackers, throwing the lead runner out at the plate and then throwing the second batter out at first. The Bears got out of the inning with no runs scored by Westmont. In the bottom of the fourth, it was the Bears' turn to load the bases. Michael Pariseau led off the inning with a walk, Joey Olshausen was hit by a pitch and Jake Wang had a hit. With the next batter in the box, Pariseau scored from 3rd on a passed ball for the first run of the game (and only run of the inning). In the top of the 5th, Westmont had one unearned run to tie the game. By the bottom of the 7th, the score remained 1 to 1 when Rio Zelaya had his second hit of the game, Geo Deras had his second hit of the game and Daniel Heimuli walked which left the Bears with loaded bases and one out. Pariseau came to the plate and hit a hard ground ball to 3rd base and the runner on 3rd (Zelaya) came home for the winning run. Final Score M-A 2 - Westmont 1. On Thursday, the JV Bears hosted Pioneer High School (Almaden, San Jose). The game started under light sprinkles and by the top of the 4th, it was pouring rain when the game was called. The team was scheduled to play at Half Moon Bay HS on Friday afternoon which was cancelled on Friday morning due to the weather forecast in Half Moon Bay for later in the day.

Boys JV Volleyball

Led by new coach Marco Paglialunga, the JV Boys Volleyball team is off to a fantastic start!  The Bears are 4 and 2, after exciting wins against The Kings Academy, Serra, James Lick and Eastside Prep. In their match against Eastside Prep on Wednesday, the Bears won the first game 25-16, highlighted by a kill from junior Soane Vainikolo. The second game was a nailbiter, but the Bears prevailed, with junior Spencer Monague-Alamin delivering two aces and junior Andrew Baigorria with 2 kills. The Bears have a mighty week coming up, with a match at home against Sacred Heart on March 14 and at Bellarmine on March 16. It's only the second year for boys volleyball at MA and, if you haven't seen them play yet, you are missing something special. Come out on Monday and let's have the Gators listen to the MA Bears roar!

Swimming
All four of the Menlo-Atherton swim squads won their first PAL league meet against San Mateo high school. The varsity girls posted 97 points to 72, varsity boys won by 112 points to 40, JV girls won 140 to 38 points, and JV boys had a huge win, posting 136 points to 14 against San Mateo.

JV girls Relay teams won all three events:  the 200 medley relay (Julie Sherman, Maddie Sonderby, Annabel Paris and Suzuka Kawaguchi), the 400 free relay (Molly Banks, Ayla Huhn, Emily Baker and Allison Collins), and the 200 free relay (Sonderby, Baker, Kawaguchi, Paris). Individual wins were tallied by Brynn Williams (200 free and 100 Breast),  Collins (50 breast), Huhn (100 back and 100 IM),  Banks (50 back), Ally Feeley (50 butterfly), and Sonderby (50 free).

JV boys dominated all events winning the 200 medley (Chris Lobdell, Andrew Fichou, Adrien Carrou, and Henry Marks) and the 200 free relay (Demetri Sweezy, Hugo McMillan, Andy Maxwell and Noah Smith). Individual wins were posted by Henry Marks (200 free and 100 back), Alec Berquist (100 IM), Carrou (50 free), Smith (50 back and 100 Breast), Cooper Gran (100 free), Ethan Ankrum (50 breaststroke) and Sweezy (50 butterfly).

Varsity girls won the 400 free relay (Haley Arrington, Sophie Murff, Faith Dunn and Kate Denend). The varsity girls dominated individual events with Sophie Murph (200 free), Kate Denend (50 free and 100 Free), Faith Dunn ( 100 breast), Maddie Wordon (100 butterfly) and Sophia Golland (500 free).  

Varsity boys won the 200 medley relay (Jak Tedesco, Nik Caryotakis, Mostyn Fero,  Vincent Busque) and the 200 free relay (Caryotakis, Alex Hakanson, Tedesco, and Busque). Individual events were won by Tedesco (100 back and 200 IM), Caryotakis (100 breast), Busque (100 Free) and Fero (100 breast and 500 free).