After the first day of the Southern California Regional Tournament, all three Cerritos College men's tennis doubles teams are still alive, while one of the four singles players has advanced to the round of 16. The tournament, which runs through Saturday, is being held at Riverside Community College.

 

    Freshmen Doug Edwards (Western HS) and Jason Wall (Lakewood HS), who are seeded #3 in the tournament, earned a bye in the first round before posting a 6-3, 6-1 win over Mitchell Grajeda and Carlos Marquez of Mt. San Jacinto College. They are now scheduled to face Brian Howath and Joao Toledo of Grossmont College, who are no strangers to the Falcon duo. The Griffin duo clinched the team victory in the Southern California Regional Team Semi-Finals on Tuesday, beating freshmen Nik Bote (Mayfair HS) and Matt Jun (Cerritos HS) in three sets.

 

    Joining them in the Round of 16 after they each recorded upset wins in the second round are Bote and Jun, along with freshmen Carlos Gomez (Kennedy HS) and David Sim (Cerritos HS). Bote and Jun also received a bye in the first round before recording a 7-5, 7-6 (1) upset win over #13-seeded Tiago Hayashi and Kristian Zak of College of the Desert. Their next opponents are Francisco Alvarado and Dan Nguyen-Huu of Mt. San Jacinto College. As for Gomez and Sim, they won two matches on Thursday, defeating Jeffrey Castro and Chris Sua (6-0, 6-0) before upsetting Pat Lam and Kevin Tran of Orange Coast College, 6-3, 6-3, who were seeded #9. All three doubles teams will compete on Friday at 1:00 p.m.

 

    In singles action, only Edwards made it through the day without a loss. As the #7-seed, he earned a bye in the first round before a 3-6, 6-2, 6-3 win over Diego Almeida of Ventura College. He is now slated to face Waylon Bennett of Grossmont College, who is their #2-singles player. Of the other singles players that competed on Thursday, only Gomez won his first match, defeating Gustavo Rodriguez, 6-1, 6-2. He was then defeated by #8-seeded Taylor Witt (1-6, 1-6) of Mt. San Jacinto College, which relegated him to the consolation round. Gomez will now play against Alvarado, while Bote and Wall will square off against each other in the consolation round after losing their first match. Wall was defeated by James Preston of Ventura College, 4-6, 0-6, with Bote losing by default after he received a first round bye.

    For complete results of the tournament, go to http://www.tennisinformation.com/tourny/5/1/8/1/9/0/5/draws.asp