Mission Viejo, CA — A hot day for cross town rivalry match. "We were lucky to get this in" says Koach. St. Margaret's literally had not practiced or played a match, having scrapped 12 days due to heat. So, this was like starting the NFL with no preseason games OR practices. On top of that, the Tartans #1 girl was out with a wrist injury...

Huntington Beach, CA — KOach can’t remember why or when we first started playing Huntington Beach, but, knows we shouldn’t have been playing them at all. They were the CdM of NWest OC, situated close to a great tennis facility with a good academy. Then they got transfers from other parts of the country. We never came close to them and we had good teams! JSerra continued to schedule them throughout the covid times, because they have 12 nice, newly refurbished courts and can send 2 teams there and our third team hosts. The Oilers got to the semis last year in D1, losing to San Marino 9-9 on game count, who then lost 10-8 in the finals. KOach states, “I felt good today, going in, changed only the order of the lineup, not individuals….my scouting report was accurate, it was just off their last year’s roster! As I watched the warmups, I was very confidant that we would finally get a “W” over the school Keith, Kent and I played for years ago.”

Irvine, CA — Crean graduated 5 starters from last year's team while JSerra picked up 3 top starters [vs last year's lineup]

San Juan Capistrano, CA — Kirk's Korner:

San Juan Capistrano, CA — The lopsided score does not tell the whole story. Yes, Santa Margarita is very solid this year, from top to bottom, however, JSerra is the only team to even get a set of the Eagle’s JV team this year in Trinity League.

San Juan Capistrano, CA — JV Lady Lions got their overall record into the positive (now 8-7 overall, 3-1 in Trinity League) with a resounding win over visiting Mater Dei this afternoon.

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😀🎾👍

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.

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.

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:

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!

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.

San Juan Capistrano, CA — Again, regardless of a lopsided score, there was some very good tennis played today.