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Oct 26, 2019
Portola 13, JSerra Catholic 5
Girls Frosh/Soph Tennis
JSerra improves in 5-13 loss vs Portola.
San Juan Capistrano, CA — After posting a 1-17 loss at Portola earlier this season, our A & B squads picked up 5 set wins in this all doubles format. Again, we arranged this match last spring, designed to play either a Frosh Soph match or the lower half of a large JV team. Well, their JV team only has 14 players, so we pretty much played a full JV team this afternoon and represented our school well. Great job ladies.
Keith Orahood
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Oct 22, 2019
JSerra Catholic 8, Santa Margarita Catholic 10
Girls Frosh/Soph Tennis
F/S loses close one at SMCHS 8-10.
Rancho Santa Margarita, CA — It was a good day of tennis for our Lions at Santa Margarita on Saturday. Despite the loss of 8-10, our girls fought hard. There were several shifts of playing positions for our singles players, and they stepped up to the challenge.
Keith Orahood
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Oct 22, 2019
Mater Dei 70, JSerra Catholic 77
Girls Frosh/Soph Tennis
JSerra defeats Mater Dei today!
San Juan Capistrano, CA — In the last match of the year for our “C” squad, they teamed with our “B” squad to defeat the visiting Monarchs. No matter the sport, regardless of the team level, it’s always a good day when JSerra beats Mater Dei at anything😀🎾👍
Keith Orahood
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Oct 19, 2019
Capistrano Valley 13, JSerra Catholic 5
Girls Frosh/Soph Tennis
Cougars defeat Lions 13-5
San Juan Capistrano, CA — JSerra’s DH2 “travel squad” battled for 2.5 hours this afternoon before succumbing to the visiting Cougars of Capistrano High School. This cross town match up was well played, in good spirit and very good sportsmanship with super fan support from parents, grandparents and siblings from both teams - thank you all!
Keith Orahood
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Oct 19, 2019
JSerra Catholic 69, Fountain Valley 74
Girls Frosh/Soph Tennis
UBUNTU on “3”! Ready to battle Fountain Valley.
Fountain Valley, CA — Our DH1 traveling squad came so close today to notching another victory. We battled the Fountain Valley Barons to a 9-9 tie, only to lose on game count, 69-74😱Every game counts!....a good lesson for our young ladies to learn before (some of them) moving up to JV next season.
Keith Orahood
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Oct 16, 2019
Laguna Beach 8, JSerra Catholic 10
Girls Frosh/Soph Tennis
Frosh Soph doubles down with 2nd victory over Laguna Beach: 10-8.
San Juan Capistrano, CA — DH-1 took care of Laguna Beach handily in our first match of the season; squads A & B kept up the winning edge vs The Breakers 10-8 this afternoon in a back and forth match.
Keith Orahood
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Oct 12, 2019
JSerra Catholic 2, San Clemente 16
Girls Frosh/Soph Tennis
San Clemente Tritons “tsunami” the Lions 2- 19 in Frosh Soph tennis.
San Clemente, CA — Pretty much the same score as before, but with 7 courts, we got 3 extra sets in, so everybody got to play a lot of tennis this morning in this all doubles format. Kudos to MVP’s for the day:
Keith Orahood
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Oct 12, 2019
Edison 14, JSerra Catholic 4
Girls Frosh/Soph Tennis
Frosh Soph shocked by Chargers 4 - 14.
San Juan Capistrano, CA — Despite the seemingly lopsided scores, our Frosh Soph players battled Edison for almost 3 hours this afternoon, in an all doubles format. We started at 2:30 and didn’t finish until 5:15😀🎾 ...losing 3 of 4 tie-breakers and another 4-6 set 😢
Keith Orahood
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Oct 08, 2019
JSerra Catholic 18, Huntington Beach 0
Girls Frosh/Soph Tennis
Frosh runs into a tough JV team..
Huntington Beach, CA — Thank you for all the frosh players and parents who ventured to Huntington Beach on their day off to find no frosh team available. We put together a match with their JV team, 2 rounds and closest we came to any set was Hayden with Briana P, who fought to a tiebreaker in round one at line #3 doubles. With confirmation email in hand AND later signed contract from HB, Coach Kirk asked for the deserved forfeit, which we posted. "I am proud of how the girls competed vs. this strong JV team" said Kirk, it's the level our girls are striving for eventually anyway, so, they got a taste of it a year or two earlier!" Go lIons!
KIRK ORAHOOD
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Oct 02, 2019
JSerra Catholic 1, Portola 17
Girls Frosh/Soph Tennis
We got bit by the Bulldogs: 1-17😱
Irvine, CA — Almost 2/3 of our Frosh / Soph team (squads A & C) played the Portola Bulldogs this afternoon. We got clobbered or should I say “slobbered” on by the Bulldogs, but it was a true JV team; let me explain.
Keith Orahood
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Oct 01, 2019
JSerra Catholic 9, Bolsa Grande 12
Girls Frosh/Soph Tennis
Matadors win rematch 12-9.
Garden Grove, CA — We went up to Garden Grive a bit short handed and after forfeiting a few sets, nearly came away with a victory, losing 12-9. Because we had only 6 players at the beginning of the match, the coaches agreed to play a quasi-college format, which allowed our players to play both singles and doubles. Most everybody got to play 3 full sets today - it was fun.
Keith Orahood
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Sep 28, 2019
Newport Harbor 12, JSerra Catholic 6
Girls Frosh/Soph Tennis
Lions Improve in 6-12 Rematch loss vs Newport Harbor
San Juan Capistrano, CA — Our B & C squads got a couple of more set victories today vs Newport Harbor than A & C a couple of weeks ago. Shows us that everybody is improving. It was our first Saturday home match of the year and we had great parent (and grandparent) turnout from both schools - thank you!
Keith Orahood
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Sep 27, 2019
Northwood 10, JSerra Catholic 8
Girls Frosh/Soph Tennis
Frosh Friday
San Juan Capistrano, CA — Northwood was 30 minutes late and we were chomping at the bit! Waiting to avenge a 8 - 10 loss to them earlier in the season. First round was split 3-3, thanks to a huge tiebreaker win by Macclaine and Bella, 10-8! Second round the same, thanks to a great comeback tiebreaker win by Lauren and Brianna! They were down 2-5 and won 6-5! The Lions, always making it interesting, go to the final set, where we were down 1 - 3, before Natalie and Kayla climbed back into the lead 5-4, but couldn't break serve to avoid the breaker. Natalie and Kayla fought hard but came up 2 points short, 5-7. Had they been able to capture the breaker for a 9-9 overall tie, JSerra would have lost on game count 7- to 80.
KIRK ORAHOOD
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Sep 20, 2019
San Clemente 16, JSerra Catholic 2
Girls Frosh/Soph Tennis
Frosh Soph tidal waved by San Clemente Tritons 16 -2
San Juan Capistrano, CA — Again, regardless of a lopsided score, there was some very good tennis played today.
KIRK ORAHOOD
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Sep 19, 2019
La Quinta 0, JSerra Catholic 0
Girls Frosh/Soph Tennis
Match Canceled by LaQuinta😱
San Juan Capistrano, CA — LaQuinta had a coaching change mid-summer and the new coach did not have our match on her radar. We are already scheduled to play all 3 LQ’s teams early next year, right after Labor Day.
Keith Orahood
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Sep 18, 2019
JSerra Catholic 4, Newport Harbor 17
Girls Frosh/Soph Tennis
F/S Lions Dunked by Sailors 17 - 4.
Newport Beach, CA — Our Frosh Soph girls played the best ever vs Newport Harbor last Friday, Sept. 13th. A whole lot of sets went 4-6, 3-6, + some tie-breakers.
Keith Orahood
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Sep 14, 2019
JSerra Catholic 7, Edison 11
Girls Frosh/Soph Tennis
Great day in Surf City
Huntington Beach, CA — The Lions visited Kirk and Keith's alma mater, competing on same courts they did in high school! Kirk was so confused, he wore an Edison football shirt!
KIRK ORAHOOD