Mitty rallies for win at Menlo-Atherton

It was a close comeback win on the road against a quality opponent.

Other than that, Mitty boys basketball coach Tim Kennedy wasn’t very pleased after his team’s 60-59 nonleague win at Menlo-Atherton on Saturday night.

Joseph Vaughn had 18 points, Marcus Greene added 13 and Devan Sapp and Michael Mitchell had 10 each for the sixth-ranked Monarchs, who improved to 4-3.

Mitty concludes its nonleague schedule next week at the Dougherty Valley tournament in San Ramon.

“We just need more consistency,” Kennedy said. “On both ends of the court, we just seem to lose focus. But we found enough to pull out this one.”

Mitty trailed by as many as eight points in the second half before tying it late in the fourth quarter. Down a point, Sapp made two free throws with nine seconds left.

Menlo-Atherton, which got 18 points from James Beckwith and 12 from Will Beasley, missed a shot with three seconds left, the ball scrambled around and fell out of bounds with 0.2 of a second left. The Bears (4-3) didn’t get a shot off from there.

Mitty had a slow start to the season as three key players — including Sapp and Vaughan — came out late from the football team.

“We’re getting there, but we have a ways to go for sure,” Kennedy said.

#1 Salesian-Richmond 61, Modesto Christian 56: Jovon McClanahan had 23 points as the Pride (11-0) pulled out an overtime win at the Lyn BasaMerza Classic at Valley Christian.

#4 Bishop O’Dowd-Oakland 63, Lone Peak-Highland (Utah) 60: In a consolation game at the Tarkanian Classic in Las Vegas, Brendan Patrick had 19 points and Monty Bowser and Bill Chavarin contributed 12 points each for the Dragons (4-2). O’Dowd lost the first two games of the tournament, but Friday defeated Constitution-Philadelphia 77-55 before Saturday’s win. “Today we battled,” O’Dowd coach Lou Richie said. “We think this team can improve as much as any team in school history.”

#10 St. Joseph Notre DameAlameda 74, Valley Christian 63: Julian Vaughns led five St. Joseph players in double figures with 14 points as St. Joseph (6-3) won at Valley Christian (6-1), which got a game-high 26 points from Jay Allen-Tovar.

University 75, Oakland 37: Max Fried had 17 points and Charley Moore scored 15, leading the host Red Devils (7-4) to the nonleague win.

El Cerrito 70, Mission 51: Alondre Ray-Love had 19 points and Malikhi Miller added 13 as the visiting Gauchos (2-8) beat the Bears (4-6), who got 12 points from David Sonnier.

Max Preps senior writer Mitch Stephens covers high school sports for The San Francisco Chronicle.