Cerritos College freshman doubles players Doug Edwards (Western HS) and Jason Wall (Lakewood HS) continue to avenge losses from earlier in the season. And now they are accomplishing them at the most important time of the year. The duo won their first two matches at the California Community College Athletic Association State Championships, which are being held at the El Dorado Tennis Center in Long Beach.

 

    Edwards and Wall opened with a convincing 6-4, 6-2 win over Fresno City College's Jose Hilla and Ignacio Lucero, who were ranked #7 in Northern California. The #4-rated doubles team in Southern California followed that performance with an even more convincing, 6-3, 6-1 victory over Diego Almedia and Alexandre Rigobelo of Ventura College. The Pirate duo defeated a different Falcon doubles team earlier in the season in a non-conference match. But the win advances Edwards and Wall into the semifinals.

 

    The duo, just two wins away from the state championship, will square off against Waylon Bennett and Olumide Sherman-Norman of Grossmont College, who are no strangers to each other. The Falcon freshmen defeated their opponents, 6-3, 7-5 in the Southern California team semi-finals two weeks ago, but lost to them last week in the semi-finals of the Ojai Tournament, 4-6, 6-2, 5-7. A win in the semi-finals will pit them against the winner of the Hassan Abbas/James Preston (Ventura) against Bellingham/Evan Jurgensen (College of the Desert)