Redwood High wins as mountain biking season kicks off at Ford Ord

Matthew Marotto stood atop the podium as the Redwood High mountain biking team edged Tam and Archie Williams for first place in the Division 1 field of Saturday's muddy season opener for the Redwood Regions NorCal Cycling League at Fort Ord. San Rafael took 10th place. North Marin Composite placed 13th in its division.

In the varsity boys race, Marotto finished the course in 1 hour, 08 minutes, and 29.42 seconds to edge Noah Shelton of Tam and Simon Hewett of Archie Williams, who finished second and third, respectively.

Redwood's Scout Wellmeier and Charlotte Philkill finished 1-2, respectively, in the varsity girls race, with Wellmeier coming across the finish line in 1:20.15.29. Teammate Izzy Landry took fifth place. The Peregrine Falcons' Alexandra Stein took eighth place, overall, with San Domenico's Quinn Joyce 10th.

Marin Academy, led by Matisse Buckley, was best

in the Division 2 field, with San Domenico ninth and Marin Catholic 14th. San Marin (17) and Branson (21) rounded out the field. Buckley placed 10th overall in the varsity boys race.

Women's basketball

Dominican University was unable to recover after Biola rolled off a huge second-quarter run, handing the Penguins a 57-46 home loss on Saturday.

Biola outscored Dominican 19-4 in the second quarter to take a 34-20 lead into the half. Jenna Duley led the way with nine points for the Penguins (19-9, 12-8 PacWest), who had already clinched their spot in next week's conference playoffs. Olga Faasolo added eight points and seven rebounds.

The Penguins will head to San Diego as the No. 3 seed for the postseason tournament — which starts on Thursday. Dominican will face either Concordia University or Hawaii Hilo in the first round.

Men's basketball

Dominican fell behind in the first half of a seasonending 62-52 defeat against Biola on Saturday.

The Penguins trailed 2813 going into the break before outscoring the Eagles 39-34 the rest of the way.

Dale Currie led the way for Dominican (10-18, 7-13) with 18 points while Marcus McCutcheon scored 10.

College baseball

Former Tam High standout Bennett Flynn earned the three-inning save as Notre Dame defeated Tennessee Tech 14-3 on Friday. Flynn struck out seven without allowing a hit for the Fighting Irish.

Flynn has a 1-0 record and a 2.08 earned-run average in five relief appearances this season.

College softball

Olivia Lee drove in the winning run in the ninth inning as Dominican went on to sweep both games of a doubleheader at Hawaii Hilo on Saturday.

Lee's single gave the Penguins a 2-1 victory in the first game. Shelby Keltner pitched all nine innings, allowing three hits and one earned run while striking out nine.

Caitlyn Perales delivered the big hit in Game 2, hitting a three-run homer as the Penguins secured a 7-5 win, Perales drove in four runs in the game and put the Penguins in front 7-3 following the home run.

Dominican (8-8, 3-5 PacWest) won three out of four games against Hawaii Hilo this weekend.

Boys volleyball

The Branson School won the first two games against University before falling 25-18, 26-24, 24-26, 25-27, 16-18, in Friday's contest.