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Sacred Heart Prep’s Gavin West ended a struggle between two of the top boys’ water polo teams in Northern California by converting a penalty kick halfway through the first sudden death overtime.
It gave the Gators an 8-7 nonleague victory over host Campolindo in Moraga on Tuesday.
West got the chance to write the finish to a dazzling game when Michael Heller was fouled with a scoring opportunity moments before.
West and Jake Tsotadze played tough defense all day, combining to draw seven exclusions and eight steals. Both teams played particularly well with a man down as neither side produced a power-play goal in 14 combined tries.
Campolindo scored the game’s first two goals, but the remaining 28:30 of play neither team led by more than a single goal. There were five lead changes and it was tied on six other occasions.
Tsotadze gave SHP (11-0) a 7-6 advantage with a minute left in the first overtime period, but Campolindo was able to tie it in the second overtime.
Heller put SHP on the board with a goal early in the second quarter. He also followed a goal by Will Swart with a score that gave SHP its first lead midway through the second period.
Griff Price played all 35:31 in the goal, recording 12 saves and a save average of .632. His Campolindo counterpart was nearly as good, stopping 10 shots.
Heller, West and Swart shared the team lead, each with a pair of goals. Luke Weigle also scored for the Gators.
Sacred Heart Prep travels to play at Miramonte, another NorCal powerhouse, on Thursday night before ending its season with a nonleague match against visiting Valley Christian on Friday night.
Boys soccer
Alexis Bromberg and Christo Hristov each scored twice and Gunn beat host Santa Clara, 5-1, in a Santa Clara Valley Athletic League De Anza Division match Tuesday.
Dane Jefferson also scored for the Titans (8-0-1), who won their seventh straight heading into their final three matches.
Jefferson gave Gunn the early lead with a goal assisted by sophomore Gabe Hutt. Bromberg followed with two quick goals, both assisted by Joey Cianfichi, giving the Titans a 3-0 halftime lead.
The first goal was off a corner kick. On his second goal, Bromberg outran the defense on a long run from midfield and shot low and hard into the lower right corner of the goal, just out of the grip of the diving goalie.
Hristov get it going with a second-half goal, using a midair kick into the right corner of the goal off a long pass by senior Nickolas Romero.
The Bruins answered with a corner kick goal to make it 4-1 but Hristov put the finishing touches on the victory with a hard strike off a ricocheted shot by Bromberg.
Gunn hosts Los Altos on Thursday evening.
Palo Alto fell to visiting Homestead, 2-0, on Tuesday. The Vikings (0-7-2) travel to Mountain View for a league match Thursday night.
Baseball
Max Coupe and Tommy Eisenstat each hit a home run and Menlo-Atherton rode a big second inning to an 8-2 nonleague victory over visiting Bellarmine on Tuesday.
Griffin Williams pitched four shutout innings in relief to earn the victory. Jackson Vontz pitched a scoreless seventh, striking out three.
Coupe hit a solo home run in the first, setting the tone for the Bears (3-3), who just completed six consecutive games against private schools. M-A hosts Live Oak on Friday afternoon.
M-A’s second-inning rally started with a one-out walk to Colin Galles. Williams followed with a RBI double and scored when Ethan Bergan singled.
With two outs, John Quinlan singled to chase home Bergan and walks to Coupe and Eisenstat loaded the bases. Rowen Barnes walked to force home a run and Reno DiBono’s misplayed infield grounder resulted in another run.
Williams took the mound for the third and was able to pitch out of trouble. He gave up five hits and walked two but struck out three and got help from his defense.
Eisenstat singled home a run in the fourth and led off the sixth with a solo homer.
In a Peninsula Athletic League Lake Division game, Thomas Screven saved his only hit of the game for last and it proved a winner as Priory rallied for three runs in the bottom of the seventh to beat South San Francisco, 15-14, in the season opener Tuesday.
Andrew Dodson and Ben Putney drove in runs to tie the game, setting up Screven’s infield single with two outs.
The teams combined for 29 runs on 28 hits. SSF produced a six-run fifth and Priory scored four runs in each the third, fourth and fifth.
Putney collected three hits for the Panthers while Tommy Leong doubled twice. Hudson Karnes had two hits and drove in three runs. Evan Vagelos added a pair of RBIs. Ronin Park, Adam Collins, Leong and Dodson each had two hits.
Girls water polo
Castilleja opened its season with an 8-7 nonleague victory over host Menlo School on Tuesday.
The Gators, who have been playing in the Peninsula Athletic League, plays a Santa Clara Valley Athletic League schedule this year.
Castilleja travels to play at Mountain View on Tuesday afternoon. Menlo (5-3) hosts Sacred Heart Prep in a West Catholic Athletic League finale on Wednesday night.
Girls soccer
Gunn improved to 4-3-2 with a 2-0 victory over visiting Santa Clara on Tuesday.
Boys golf
Rishi Valluru shot a 3-over-par 39 but Gunn fell to Los Altos, 225-237, in a Santa Clara Valley Athletic League match at Shoreline Golf Course on Monday.
Badminton
Menlo-Atherton downed San Mateo, 9-0, in a Peninsula Athletic League match Tuesday.
