Looking to pull of an upset, the Cerritos College freshman tennis doubles team of Doug Edwards (Western HS) and Jason Wall (Lakewood HS) were defeated by top-seeded Waylon Bennett and Olumide Sherman-Norman of Grossmont College, 4-6, 6-3, 5-7 in the semi-finals of the Ojai Tournament on Sunday. The doubles team that Edwards and Wall will face again on Tuesday in the Southern California Team Playoffs, went on to win the doubles title.

 

    The duo, which won the South Coast Conference doubles championship, played Bennett and Sherman-Norman to the end and were looking to hand the top-rated team in Southern California a rare loss. The setback by Edwards and Wall was just their third on the year, as they dropped to 21-3 on the year.

 

    The team will now prepare of the team semi-finals, while they will also compete in the Southern California Regionals over the weeks at Riverside Community College. Those that qualified for the regionals include Edwards, Wall, Nik Bote (Mayfair HS) and Carlos Gomez (Kennedy HS) in singles play, with Edwards and Wall, Gomez and David Sim (Cerritos HS), along with Bote and Matt Jun (Cerritos HS) in doubles play.