San Juan Capistrano, CA — We lost to this team 3 to 15 a couple of weeks ago...KOach gave his ALAMO speech today and drew the line in the sand and the whole team bought in. Just as the real battle in San Antonio, we were severely overmatched in the singles area and gave up 8 of 9 sets, BUT, this was an improvement over last time. The lone set was an solid 6-1 victory from Zach Champine vs Servite line 3. Our doubles stuck to KOach's game plan and took 6 of the 9 sets, barely missing out on the last match of the day, where the Lions were tripped up in a tiebreaker.

San Juan Capistrano, CA — DAy 2 was much cooler than the past 2 days! Our boys competed very well today, most of the sets we came up short on were 6-8 or 7-8 tiebreaker losses. 2 or 3 'heart'breakers. Again, this compass style tournament keeps all players in; even if you lose, youjust move to another section of the draw, NE, NW, SE, SW [thus, the compass].

Newport Beach, CA — Our boys played in an individual "compass" format today; in which, they are placed into a draw and will play 4 matches in 2 days. If you win, you go to the right and west, should you lose. Every round will give you points to add to whole school's tally. JSerra lost 6 sets today vs 4 wins. Brady and Gary made it to the semis of doubles while Zach took 2 easy sets to advance to the singles semis. Tomorrow gets tougher.

San Juan Capistrano, CA — "Clueless in Capistrano", read my scouting report on OLu. KOach admitted he had nada, except,

Huntington Beach, CA — Tweaking the lineup a little in the final 2 rounds helped alot as the LIONS picked up 2 easy victorys. ALL nine players won their sets. Gary had a great win, holding off his opponent for a 8-6

San Juan Capistrano, CA — The Braves were just that today...bringing some young new players to the JSerra Tennis Complex. Although outmanned, Bosco played well, fought hard and well-mannered foes. Their line 2 doubles literally had never picked up a racket until February! The Lions were very hospitable in every aspect except set count and game tally; specifically, Zach Champine going triple bagel right through the Braves lineup!

San Juan Capistrano, CA — JSerra hosted the Santa Margarita Eagles today in their 2022 Trinity League Opener.

Laguna Beach, CA — These beach schools are not friendly to us! At least this time we rode the wave right up to the end and were "Hangin' Ten', smiling big, before crashing into the surf. Brady Schaefgen upset Laguna's #1 player, then disposed of their #2 player in another close set, but had a tough loss at line#3. Zach Champine defeated their 2 and 3 lines , but fell to line #1, 4-6 in round 3. Gary Davidson, with Joe Bond, at #1 dubs also disposed of the Waves 1 and 2 teams, but, lost a close round 3 to the #3 team. Aiden German and Hudson Aase took care of their line 2 and 3 duo opponents , but came up short vs. Beach's top team.

San Juan Capistrano, CA — Foothill brought their A-Game today to JSerra and opened up a can of whoop whatever. The Lions were missing players on varsity and JV today, which doesn't bode well in the final count. Singles players picked up 2 sets and a lone doubles point. Brady and Zach both picked up points at line #2 singles in hard-fought matches. Zach narrowly lost to the Knights #3 singles, a lefty freshman; but, had a late come from behind in his line 2 victory. Their #1 player was untouchable. The only doubles team we could come close to was their line 3 team, who Aiden and Joe handled by playing solid, smart, patient tennis. Esteban and Hudson played this team tough as well, but a late service break hurt us. We have 4 practice days to get ready for our league opener vs SM and will need to shore up our doubles play before then.

San Juan Capistrano, CA — The Lions were almost at full strength today for the first time this season, just in time. Crean Lutheran is a very solid team, a qtr finalist in CIF last year. Singles players Brady and Zach ran in to an 11+ UTR player, headed for WestPoint which kept them from sweeping 3. This is a great example of how we don't ever really have to beat the other teams #1 player to win a match. Zach was down vs their #2 player 2-5 and stormed back to take a tiebreaker 7-6 [7-5]. This win broke their back. Score was 3-3 after round 1, and the Lions took round 2, 4 -2 for a 7-5 lead going into round 3. Michael Woodward and Kenney Perez added 5 games to the count in case we ended up in a 9-9 tie. While Gary Davidson and Nick Dubrow narrowly missed a sweep, dropping a round 3 tiebreaker. Esteban Johnson w/ Hudson Aase added a doubles set to the tally. Luke Krolikowski and Charlie Vogel rotated in for a hard-fought last round doubles set.

Huntington Beach, CA — The Lions could not handle the heavy surf today at Huntington.

San Juan Capistrano, CA — The Lions opened up the 2022 season with a win over El Toro. KOach Kirk notes: "This is an annual preseason match for us, 14 yrs in the running. Coach Amos was kind enough to play us during our inception and initial growth and it is good to play someone close to us in proximity."

Laguna Hills, CA — How would you like to face the Great Bambino, then Lou Gehrig and then Ted Williams as a pitcher of yesteryear?!?! Well, that's what Villa park had to do today vs JSerra. VP started their ace at #2 today vs Brock Bowman.. in an epic 1.5 hour 1 set match, Brock fought back again and again, breaking serve at 5 - 6 to get into the tiebreaker where he got a quick lead and never looked back! Brock upset this player and then Zach Champine steps up and provides the knockout punch ALSO in a tiebreaker. BUT, the damage that Brock inflicted was insurmountable!

San Juan Capistrano, CA — JSerra celebrated senior day while hosting St. John Bosco and serving up a senior sauce 12 - 6 victory. The Lions captured 8 of the 9 possible doubles sets; seniors Brock Bowman with Sean Delaney sweeping 3 sets dropping only 2 single games! Nick Dubrow with Aiden German also swept giving up only 3 games! Zach Champine, who is on fire, swept all 3 sets, avenging a earlier loss to Bosco's #1 player. Luke and Anthony took 2 sets rounding up doubles tally.

SJCap, CA — Playing SM, early in the season is not fun.PLaying them the day before Easter break without one of your top players is no fun at all. The home version of our league's home/away format saw the Lions, the full-strength version reverse the previous score of 8-10 to a satisfying 10-8.

Fountain Valley, CA — KOach missed 1st MDei match due to operation, but, was with team today with Danny missing, due to injury. Looking at the previous scorecard; erasing Danny's 3 wins, making adjustments for 'home field advantage' and pulling a jv player up to accompany us, the new Vegas publication, Koaches Kalculations, had the line at JSerra 10 MDei 8.. good thing he is not a betting man!

San Juan Capistrano, CA — OLu showed up today with some solid singles players and 1 really good doubles team.

San Juan Capistrano, CA — Coaches had to both run out for bottles of "Grecian Formula" after today. Both Varsity and JV won 9 - 9 on total game count... Once again proving that it really is a total team sport! Brocks bagel[s] (long story); got "captained" on set point in round 1, coupled with Danny's bagels and then Brock and Zach's great efforts in [especially] their last sets avoiding any chance for the Friars to catch us in the game count. "But wait!, there's more!" In round 3, my 1 and 2 doubles teams, Gary Davidson with Aiden German and Nick Dubrow, respectively, were both down, late... Gary and Sean fought off a no ad point on a long rally at 5 - 5 on a fantastic long rally, where Friar Tuck had a point blank shot at Sean, trying to turn him in to Ichabod Crane, but, the fence got in the way! If it was a letter, it would've been charged double for airmail!. Aiden and Nick were in a similar predicament, got the break and PROMPTLY held serve to close out the win! Had these 2 teams not rallyed, game count wouldn't mean a thing. Yes, we were that close to a 11 - 7 loss...

Lakewood, CA — Missing 5 bona fide starters, JSerra sheepishly crept into Lakewood CC this afternoon, shuffling lineup suggestions amongst each other. KOach finally settled on what he thought would be best producing in respect to total games [should the sets be tied 9-9] Koach Kirk's record vs Bosco is 24 - 2 over the years, losing twice to the Josh Rosen [yes, THAT Josh Rosen] squad. BIG producers today were our subs, who basically won the match...Michael Woodward with Rodney Culwell won 2 sets in doubles before succumbing to the Braves line #1 team. Brian Chi partnered with Jack Thompson to defeat Bosco's line 3 team easily. Two of these sets were won in round 1, which coupled with Brock's round 1 come from behind, and Zach and Anthony's singles wins, gave the Lions a 6- 0 lead. The quivers were empty at that point and the Lions never looked back. Freshman, Anthony Ashworth got his first ever Trinity League singles win, and elusive prize for young players in this league.

Rancho Santa Margarita, CA — We knew we were in for a dog fight today, a heated one at that, literally!

Aliso Viejo, CA — Brock Bowman swept all 3 singles matches as did [other MVP's] Sean Delaney with Gary Davidson, appearing to set up a squeaky win... but, the tough Wolverines gritted their teeth and only allowed us 1 additional set in singles [Zach Champine] and another doubles set from Nick Dubrow with Aiden German. Last year, this was a nail-biter as well, with a 9-9 game count win to the Lions. This is becoming one of our non league 'friendlies' and we are glad to continue this contest yearly, girls and boys. Esteban Johnson joined the team and will be a helpful addition in the doubles lineup as we get ready for Mater Dei on Friday.

Costa Mesa, CA — I guess we could insert different names from the girls match here and call it a day! But, too many good efforts to not be recognized!