San Juan Capistrano, CA — JV “netters” finish Trinity League play in 2nd place with strong outing vs Servite on home courts.

Fullerton, CA — JV boys upped league record to 2 wins, 1 loss with solid win over the Servite Friars 15-3 at Fullerton Tennis Center.

San Juan Capistrano, CA — Lions get shocked and awed in opening round 0-6 before fighting back closing gap in round #2, losing 12-6 by match end.

Fountain Valley, CA — JSerra JV netters opened up league play with a solid win vs Mater Dei at Los Caballeros Sports Club this afternoon: 11-7.

Aliso Viejo, CA — Write a recap? Not much to “write home about”…we got beat by a superior team this afternoon.

LAGUNA BEACH, CA — JV netters back on the winning track. Even though we lost 2 of 2 tie-breakers played today, we dominated in both singles and doubles.

San Juan Capistrano, CA — Way better than last year’s shellacking by the Knights, the JV boys came close. Losing 3 of 4 Tie-Breakers proved to be the difference.

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."

Newport Coast, CA — In a rematch vs Sage, the boys came up a little short today, but there was some great individual efforts. Brian Chi swept 2 of the 2 SINGLES sets he played, which is great because he usually plays doubles. He toyed with his opponents, kinda like a cat 'n mouse-type thing before putting them away. Kenney Perez also won both of his doubles sets with different partners! [Max Chiotis ans Jordan Gessin. This trio went 5-6, 6-5 and 6-4; tiebreakers played at 5-all. Max with Jordan vs Sage's line #1 duo barely lost in the tiebreaker or this would have been a clean sweep. Luke had a tough loss to Sage #1 line, then handily beat the line#3 player 6-2 before being subbed out. "He is striking the ball very solidly from the back court and not reluctant to move into the net. This will bode well for future doubles play" says KOach Kirk.

San Juan Capistrano, CA — The JV boys competed very well, but, came up a set short. "In a regular 6x6 format, with singles and doubles, this would be a Lion victory", says KOach Kirk,. "The main indicator being our sweep of La Quinta's #1 doubles team 6-4, 7-5, 6-0."JSerra lost a tight match at line 2 doubles, 5-7 which would have been the swing state!