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Taylor DeGroff, Anika Adzich and their Castilleja girls lacrosse teammates came to play Tuesday.
DeGroff scored seven goals and Adzich scored four as the Gators upset visiting Mitty 17-11 in a West Bay Athletic League match at Palo Alto High.
Goalie Anika Tse added eight saves for the Gators (5-9, 1-6), who travel to Menlo-Atherton for a 4 p.m. league match Friday.
The second-place Bears (11-6, 5-2) dropped a 7-1 decision to league-leading Menlo School (12-2, 7-0) and remain two games up on Mitty and Sacred Heart Prep, which was upset by host St. Francis 12-11 on Tuesday night.
Mitty (6-6, 3-4) hosts Sacred Heart Prep at 4 p.m. Friday. The Monarchs beat Castilleja 15-7 earlier in the season. Mitty won five of its first seven matches and are 1-4 since.
Castilleja has won two of three following an eight-game losing streak. The Gators took control of the game early and held a 12-7 advantage at halftime.
Adzich added a pair of assists and seven draw controls while DeGroff had an assist and five draw controls.
Gay Nightengale added a draw control to go with her two assists and two goals. Jordan Jackson scored twice and Katherine Connolly added a goal for Castilleja, which has no seniors on the roster.
Menlo, on the other hand, features an experienced group of five seniors, including Indy Varma, who led the Knights with three goals, who were honored on Senior Day.
M-A goalie Samantha Gamez helped keep the game close, recording 12 saves. Grace Tully scored the Bears only goal in the first half as the game turned into a defensive struggle. It was a 3-1 game until the final two minutes.
M-A’s Hannah Shaw recorded a pair of draw controls.
Widdy Tevis added a pair of goals for the Knights. Abby Wolfenden and Charlotte Swisher, who had four draw controls, also scored.
Senior Sophia Donovan recorded an assist, as did both Sophie Scola and Bella Scola. Page Wolfenden also had four draw controls. Senior goalie Alena Stern made two saves.
Cam Gordon scored five goals and Allison Carter added four but Sacred Heart Prep was on the wrong side of the scoring ledger.
The Gators (4-9, 3-4) and Mitty remain tied for third.
SH Prep and the Lancers dueled to a 6-6 tie by halftime and the match remained close to the end.
Kailey Wachhorst and Ingrid Corrigan each scored, Nikki Molumphy had an assist and Emma Briger recorded six saves.
Gunn sustained its second straight loss, dropping a 10-9 decision in overtime to visiting Los Gatos on Tuesday. The Titans (12-4, 10-3) entertain Palo Alto at 7:30 p.m. Thursday.
Emily Axtell and Jenilee Chen led Gunn with three goals each. Janis Iourovitski and Becca Chapman each scored a goal and recorded an assist and Grace Williams scored once. Andrea Garcia-Milla had four assists.
Iourovitski recorded five draw controls and Lucy Augustine had three. Laurel Comiter chipped in five turnovers and Anna Tsai added three turnovers
The Wildcats (12-1, 12-1) have a 1 1/2 game lead on the second-place Vikings (10-6, 10-2) and own the tie-breaker.
Gunn fell two games off the pace with three to play.
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Baseball
Nic Vamis and Daniel Colwell combined on a five-inning no-hitter Tuesday and host St. Mary’s-Albany beat Menlo-Atherton 12-0 in a nonleague baseball game.
Bears outfielder Nick Cronin was hit by a pitch on a full count leading off the game and designated hitter Michael Pariseau drew a one-out walk in the second. They were the only M-A hitters to reach base.
Vamis went the first four innings, facing two over the minimum. He retired his final eight batters in succession and 12 of his last 13.
Ten of his 12 outs were recorded on flyballs or line drives to the outfield. Colwell pitched a perfect fifth to complete the no-no.
M-A (8-11-1, 3-3-1) has lost three in a row and four of five overall.
The Bears travel to South San Francisco (5-11-1, 2-4-1) for a 4 p.m. PAL Ocean Division game Thursday. The last time the teams met, the game ended in an 11-11 tie after eight innings.
M-A, down 8-2 at one point in the game, gave up eight unearned runs on six errors to the Warriors.
The Bears are in a virtual tie for third place with San Mateo, which knocked off second-place Half Moon Bay 8-4 on Tuesday, a game out of second.
Menlo School downed host The King’s Academy 9-1, collecting 11 hits to make a winner out of starter Chandler Yu.
The Knights (9-5, 5-1) host Aragon Thursday at 4 p.m.
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Softball
Paige Blackwell didn’t have her best day as a pitcher and was still two pitches away from a possible shutout.
Hillsdale’s Isabella Zabla fouled off four tough pitches before hitting a two-run homer in the top of the fifth to snap a tie and give the Knights a 4-1 victory over host Woodside at Hawes Park in Redwood City in PAL Bay Division action Tuesday.
The Wildcats (6-14, 1-7) fell to 4-8 in games decided by three runs or less (1-4 in 1-run games) and three of those games have come against Hillsdale. It’s the difference between eighth place and third place in the tightly-bunched league.
Blackwell (4-9, 1.92) may be the best pitcher with a losing record in the area. She has 117 strikeouts in 113 innings and has allowed 54 runs, 23 of them unearned, on 89 hits.
She’s third on the team in hitting (.320) and leads the Wildcats with six extra-base hits, including a team-high three triples. Her 24 hits are also a team best, just ahead of Gianna Volattorni and Kaitlyn Grech, each with 23.
Those three hitters combined to give Woodside a 1-0 lead over the Knights. Volattorni singled to open the fourth and went to third on Blackwell’s double. Grech grounded out, allowing Volattorni to score.
Woodside plays at Aragon on Thursday, with a starting time of 4 p.m.
In a West Bay Athletic League contest, Notre Dame-Belmont beat Castilleja 20-1. The Gators (4-11, 1-6) travel to Mercy-Burlingame for a 4 p.m. game Thursday.
By Rick Eymer/Palo Alto Online Sports
By Rick Eymer/Palo Alto Online Sports
By Rick Eymer/Palo Alto Online Sports