Serra routs Bellarmine but loses one of its stars
SAN MATEO >> His team had just won big over an undefeated league rival trying to take what Serra has. But for winning coach Patrick Walsh, the scoreboard Saturday afternoon meant little.
Walsh’s eyes teared up and his voice quivered as he addressed an injury that likely will end Hassan “The Missile” Mahasin’s season and high school career.
The Serra coach isn’t sure when the senior suffered the knee injury during the 41-7 rout of Bellarmine. It might have happened in the first half. Maybe it happened when the three-star prospect with offers from Arizona State and Colorado left the game for good on a handoff in the backfield early in the second half.
Mahasin was evaluated by the team doctor, Walsh said, noting that the doctor is “sadly” a good judge of ACL injuries.
The doctor fears Mahasin’s injury is an ACL, the coach added.
An MRI will be needed to confirm the diagnosis.
Mahasin was the Bay Area News Group’s player of the year during Serra’s 5-0 season last spring.
In the final minute of the first half, Mahasin caught a 33-yard pass over the middle from Dominique Lampkin
that gave Serra — the Bay Area News Group’s topranked team — a 20-0 lead at halftime.
Petelo Gi’s 1-yard plunge on the first play of the fourth quarter made it 27-0.
Bellarmine, once the top team in the West Catholic Athletic League, hadn’t scored against Serra since 2016, a streak of three consecutive shutouts.
The sixth-ranked Bells (4-1, 1-1 WCAL) finally broke through when Philip Miller picked up a punt that Serra (4-0, 2-0) was trying to down inside the 10 and kept running until he was tackled at the Serra 25.
NO. 5 LOS GATOS 35, SANTA CLARA 0>> Jake Boyd passed for 327 yards and four touchdowns for visiting Los Gatos (6-0, 2-0 Santa Clara Valley Athletic League De Anza Division). Boyd, who completed 13 of his 22 passes, threw two scoring strikes to Yuma Raux-moriwaki (8 and 79 yards) and one apiece to Alejandro Quijada (60 yards) and Jake Ripp (16 yards).
NO. 11 VALLEY CHRISTIAN 28, NO. 21 ST. IGNATIUS 12>> Jakson Berman threw for 138 yards and two touchdowns and ran for 71 yards and a TD as Valley Christian (41, 2-0) stayed undefeated in the WCAL with a win on its home field in San Jose.
LELAND 14, LIVE OAK 13>> In an early-season Blossom
Valley Athletic League Mt. Hamilton Division showdown, a point-after-touchdown kick by Cade Whitson proved to be the difference as the Chargers (4-1, 2-0) came back from a 13-0 deficit to edge the Acorns (3-2, 1-1). HOMESTEAD 39, PALO ALTO 19>> Winless in 10 games against Palo Alto dating to 2004, which included a tie, Homestead broke the skid on its home field as senior running back Derek Sheerer ran for 177 yards and three touchdowns in 13 carries to lead the Mustangs.
ARCHBISHOP RIORDAN 14, ARCHBISHOP MITTY 7>> Playing on its home field in
San Francisco on Saturday afternoon, Riordan beat
Mitty for the first time in six years as the Crusaders built a two-touchdown cushion and held on.
ARAGON 33, THE KING’S ACADEMY 13>> The visiting Dons (3-2 overall) hurt The King’s Academy (2-3) both on the ground and in the air in a non-league victory.
GUNN 49, SARATOGA 0>> Filippi Montes had a huge game as host Gunn won its SCVAL El Camino Division opener. Montes had touchdown runs of 80, 72 and 2 yards, and finished with 154 yards on five carries.
PIONEER 16, WESTMONT
10>> Senior MLB/FB Jeremiah Lolohea had himself a game Thursday on his team’s home field in San Jose, rushing for 153 yards
Sobrato 35, Prospect 20 Lincoln-san Jose 27, Overfelt 12
Silver Creek 30, Oak Grove 8 Hill 48, San Jose 0
Yerba Buena 50, Lick 0
Today
Homestead at Los Gatos, 7 p.m.
Fremont-sunnyvale at Cupertino, 7 p.m.
Monta Vista at Lynbrook, 7 p.m.
Oak Grove at Leland, 7 p.m. Burlingame at King’s Valley, 7 p.m.
Pioneer at Leigh, 7 p.m. Branham at Prospect, 7 p.m. Independence at Westmont, 7 p.m.
Bellarmine at Mitty, 7 p.m. Valley Christian at
St. Francis, 7 p.m.
Saturday
Willow Glen at Sobrato, 3 p.m.
in 23 carries and making nine tackles to lead Pioneer (3-2, 2-0) to its second consecutive victory. FREMONT-SUNNYVALE 41, LYNBROOK 7>> Fremont, playing on its home field, rolled to victory as Bronson Stein threw three touchdown passes, including two 19-yard strikes to WR Zade Aufang. BRANHAM 15, WILLOW GLEN 12>> Branham bounced back from a loss last week to Sobrato as junior Willy Augenstein passed for 149 yards and ran for 49 to lead the way.
Staff writer Evan Webeck and correspondent Phil Jensen contributed to this report.
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