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Juan Velez.
Men's Tennis posted a 6-3
non-conference win over top-ranked
Riverside College on Tuesday. |
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Just two weeks into the season, two of the top teams
in Southern California squared off in what turned
out to be a match worthy of a state championship.
The Cerritos College men's tennis team, ranked #6 in
Southern California, posted a 6-3 non-conference
home win over top-ranked Riverside Community College
on Tuesday. The Falcons (3-0) put the match away by
winning three of the four singles matches that went
to a third set tie-breaker, one of which included
sophomore
Doug
Edwards (Western HS) defeating
defending state champion Daniel Coehlo (6-4, 2-6,
11-9). Cerritos will now travel to face defending
team state champion Ventura College for a 2:00 p.m.
non-conference match on Thursday.
In singles play, Cerritos won four of the six
matches, as well as three that went to a third set.
In addition to the win by Edwards in the #1 spot,
sophomore
Nik Bote
(Mayfair HS) fought back after losing the
first set in the #4 position and came away with a
3-6, 6-0, 10-6 win over Camilo Almeida. Sophomore
David
Sim (Cerritos HS) pulled away
in the tie-breaker against Marlo Carrillo in the #6
spot and posted a 6-4, 4-6, 10-1 victory.
Sophomore
Jason Wall
(Lakewood HS) dropped his third straight
three-set match, this time to Diego Miranda, 1-6,
7-5, 12-14, while sophomore
Carlos
Gomez (Kennedy HS) swept Sam
Pirani, 6-4, 6-4.
Edwards and Wall, who advanced to the finals of the
state championships last season, dropped to 1-2 on
the year after being defeated by Coehlo and Yair
Banuelos, 3-6, 6-7 (5). But the Falcons did win the
other two doubles matches, which clinched the
victory. Bote and Gomez posted a 6-3, 6-2 win, while
sophomore
Matt Jun
(Cerritos HS) and freshman
Tim Lee
(Whitney HS) matched their score for a
victory.
Singles
Doug
Edwards (CERR) def. Daniel Coelho (RCC), 6-4, 2-6, 11-9
Yair Banuelos (RCC) def. Tim Lee (CERR), 6-4, 6-4
Diego Miranda (RCC) def. Jason Wall (CERR), 6-1, 5-7,
12-14
Nik Bote (CERR) def. Camilo Almeida (RCC), 3-6, 6-0,
10-6
Carlos Gomez (CERR) def. Sam Pirani (RCC), 6-4, 6-4
David Sim (CERR) def. Marlo Carrillo (RCC), 6-3, 4-6,
10-1
Doubles
Daniel
Coelho/Yair Banuelos (RCC) def. Doug Edwards/Jason Wall
(CERR), 6-3, 7-6 (5)
Nik Bote/Carlos Gomez (CERR) def. Diego Almeida/Sam
Pirani (RCC), 6-3, 6-2
Matt Jun/Tim Lee (CERR) def. Ben Lopez/Michael Lim (RCC), 6-3,
6-2 |
