San Juan Capistrano, CA — We had an awesome 1/2 day of tennis last Saturday! Please join us next time!

Los Alamitos, CA — The Lions traveled today to Los Alamitos HS to play the Griffins, not knowing exactly what to expect, except, their #1 singles player is very strong. Having scouted a little bit Monday, Los Al @ Sage [thanks to their late start and our quick win], Coach Kirk knew a couple of things: Their #1 is very strong, #3 doubles was weak, #3 singles is really 2nd best player on the team and their best doubles player poaches by 2nd shot on virtually every point. So, we went with that info at practice Tuesday. "It's always nice to open up round one with a 5 - 1 can of whoop whatever. Taking out the queen bee at the beginning helps too, which Katy Golbranson and Claire Delaney accomplished at line 1 doubles. The other doubles teams followed suit with hard fought victories. Alexa Taba with Lily Sheybani and Elise Early with Sophia Moncur. Jenna Lee and Kaley Houshmand took care of their line 2 and 3 singles foes respectively, Taylor fought hard in a first round loss, but rebounded quickly for 6-0, 6-1 victories in the latter 2 rounds. Kaley picked up another win vs line 2, while Jenna pulled the hat trick, defeating the #1 player 6-1 in the final round. Having captured the 9th set prior to the start of round 3, coach was able to get subs Olivia McHenry and Hailey Moncur in to the match. HAiley was matched with her BFF, Katy which was fun for all! Olivia teamed up with Lily, Alexa was kind enough to bow out, which was tough because her Dad and sister were there. BUT, Olivia and Lily won a spectacular tiebreaker 9-7 for the 13th set!... as daylight had severely waned!

San Juan Capistrano, CA — Feels good to be back in the playoffs and hosting a match here on our own courts.

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.

Fountain Valley, CA — Not quite the same team we beat before (apparently MD moved 4-5 girls down from their large varsity roster to “help out” today) but that’s ok. So technically, we tied for 2nd in league, but had good enough efforts to get several JSerra players seeded in the Trinity League championships next week. There IS a rule against moving players down to (dominate) the JV tournament, so we should perform well next Tuesday.

Anaheim, CA — Lutheran of Orange was missing a singles player, which gave our singles players 3 defaulted wins, but more importantly a rest in the heat. 🥵 MVP’s Anna Ciraci and Kylie Davidson both win 2 of 2 sets played; while Juliana “volleyball” Calo pushed their #1 player to 4-4 before falling 4-6, AFTER beating their #2 player 6-4. Great job today.

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.

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!

San Juan Capistrano, CA — The Lady Lions effectively and officially 'won league' today, mathematically eliminating any challengers with a 12 - 6 win over Rosary at home. Should they lose the next 2 matches, the head to head wins over SM would give them that tiebreaker. If Mater Dei upset SM and JSerra, the Lions could conceivably share co-championship with the Monarchs. A win over OLu at home next Tuesday would solve this puzzle for keeps; coupled with a win next Thursday, earns the outright sole championship!

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 😢

Rancho Santa Margarita, CA — JSerra sweeps the home and away series with nemesis, Santa Margarita, for the first time in school history. Definitely a team effort! Someone trips and falls, they are picked up by teammates while others stepped up and capture a set. Even on an individual basis, Kaley Houshmand dropping a hard fought tiebreaker set at line 3 singles, comes back and gets 4 games vs line 2 player in the last match of the day, as all players and parents watch this Lion take the match on her shoulders past the finish line!. Jenna Lee defeats her former team three straight sets as did Taylor Barnes. Claire Delaney with Katy Golbranson upset SM's undefeated line 1 doubles team, 9-7 tiebreaker win. They were down 3 match points in the breaker! Then, freshmen Gabby Basa and Sophia Moncur come from behind 1-4, for a 6-4 victory over SM's line 3 doubles. Thank you coach Keith for helping with this comeback in particular. Thank you Coach Wilson for taking over JV matches, allowing Keith to travel with the varsity squad, it is a big help to have 2 coaches at the tight matches! AND a HUGE shout out to our athletic director, Chris Ledyard, who ventured up to SM and watched the ENTIRE match from start to finish...Coach Kirk notes, "I think Chris is becoming a legitimate 'tennis parent' ! He may have gain a few gray hairs today!" :) Anyone that spends this amount of time at a tennis match, with our scoring system can tell you that it really is a game of inches AND every game counts! Alexa Taba with Lily Sheybani, who came from behind in the last set played in the first SM contest, to win the match for us, did not capture a set this time. However, they added precious games to our 78 game tally! EVERY PLAYER today is a MVP!

San Juan Capistrano, CA — JV team, coached by Caroline Wilson, matched their previous 5 wins vs a very strong Santa Margarita team this afternoon. This was an improvement because 4 of our 5 set wins in the first match came from Sophia Moncur and Elise Early, who are now participating on varsity.

San Juan Capistrano, CA — Without it’s top 2 singles players, our JV team remained in sole possession of 2nd place in the Trinity League with a solid victory over Mater Dei this afternoon: 12 - 6. We have not beaten Mater Dei in several years, so this was extra sweet.

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.

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.

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!

Lake Forest, CA — Our A & B squads played well today, but were a bit overmatched in the doubles “draw”. Thank you Kylie Davidson and Alyssa Allado for stepping up and filling in at the last minute for missing team members. Best thing about the match was that all JSerra players were able to play full 3 sets of tennis today!

San Juan Capistrano, CA — Our first Trinity League bye [odd number of teams] came at a good time, following our big win over SM. The South Coast and Sea View have two 5-team leagues and we schedule teams that have the same bye week as us from these leagues [except for Dana Hills, who won't play us]. This year, El Toro was that team and the Lions took them to the mat, running up a 6-0 round one lead then a 11 - 1 lead after completion of round two. Coach Kirk subbed in 7 players in the final round and picked up a couple more sets for the win.

Rancho Santa Margarita, CA — Our young JV team lost to Santa Margarita this afternoon 13-5. Disappointed in the score, but not the girls. Our starting JV team is made up of 7 freshmen and we are PROUD of the way they are playing and representing our school.

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.

San Juan Capistrano, CA — Our #1 and #2 singles players, Elise Early and Sophia Moncur swept all 6 sets of singles between them today with excellent match play by both. Grace Hoover stepped up to get an additional singles victory, which was 7 wins by our singles players. Well done.

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.

San Juan Capistrano, CA — Our A & B “travel” squads gave some good effort despite the lopsided scores.

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!

San Juan Capistrano, CA — Opening round saw us down 2 - 4; came close to splitting (3-3) with Sophia Moncur playing over 1 hour for her first set. Kylie Davidson won first round singles, as did the doubles team of Grace Hoover with Aleah Edwards.

Aliso Viejo, CA — The varsity girls traveled to Aliso Niguel and played a very tight 7 - 11 loss. Our singles managed 3 sets while doubles squeaked out 4. The Lions were serving for sets in 2 first round matches that they failed to capture... which made the difference. Lily Sheybani and Alexa Taba won 2 of their 3 sets. Jena Lee had a long 1st round loss at #2 spot, 5-7. This team killed us last year, so we are making progress...Can't wait for the rematch next year in our house! Olivia McHenry with Katie Takahashi took one set, which is important, as her Mom is one of the coaches. This duo also went 4-6 vs Aliso's #1 dbls team.. "Good outing overall" says Coach O. "we were missing our #5 girl and still haven't been at full strength"