San Juan Capistrano, CA — Most of the S squad exited early from the lineup today, giving others a chance to play 2 sets. After jumping ahead 5-1 in the opening round, we played even 3-3 in the next 2 rounds, winning 11-7.

San Juan Capistrano, CA — “There has to be a pony under there” said the optimistic twin…..For those who don’t know this old “public speaker” story, twin brothers each got a giant pile of manure in their rooms for their birthday.

San Juan Capistrano, CA — JSerra JV girls remain in 2nd place as they start round 2 Trinity League play this afternoon with a rematch win vs Orange Lutheran 14-4.

Rancho Santa Margarita, CA — Great team win today to take control of 2nd place in the Trinity League. In a balanced attack, we won 5 sets in singles and 5 sets in doubles.

Santa Ana, CA — Foothill is a perennial power in Orange County tennis, this is the school varsity beat 2 years ago for the CIF title….so we knew it wouldn’t be an EZ afternoon. (Varsity lost by the same score today.)

San Juan Capistrano, CA — Everyone was an MVP today!

San Juan Capistrano, CA — Back to back wins for JV defeating Aliso Niguel 12-6 this afternoon on our home courts.

Huntington Beach, CA — Pretty good outing for only having 8 days of workouts and challenge matches. If we played strength vs strength, JSerra comes out a winner

San Juan Capistrano, CA — Recap Mater dei Frosh oct 29

San Juan Capistrano, CA — SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, CA — JSerra FS got out-dub’d this afternoon in this all doubles format, 3-15. SC Coach Ellie must have expected our DH-1 squad, because she brought her top 12 players. But we coaches are proud of the effort our B & C squad today, across all 6 lines. Many sets were tighter than the final score suggests.

Newport Beach, CA — Newport Harbor

San Juan Capistrano, CA — The Lions hosted the Monarchs today and the outcome was very close. Round 1 ended 4-2 in JSerra's favor; 6-6 after round 2 and 9-9 after round 3.

Fountain Valley, CA — We went to Fountain Valley a little short-handed w a few players sick and a few on retreat. Playing a standard 3x3 doubles and 3x3 singles for a total of 18 sets, we at least did not get “bagel’d” thanks to the efforts of MVP for the day, Gia Banks-Meeker.

CA — Tough recap to write, any grammar or spelling errors, blame Uncle Nearest ! 🤪 2nd day in a row, Frosh / Soph drops a close one 8-10 :-(

San Juan Capistrano, CA — First and foremost, KUDOS to our DH-2 squad who almost beat this Edison team in the first match of the year, while DH-1 was taking care of San Clemente. This was a “tough out” today, had we not won 4 of 5 tie-breaker sets, we would have lost again 8-10.

Laguna Beach, CA — We added Laguna Beach late to give their new varsity coach more pre-league matches. This also gave us an opportunity to put in the A & B travel squads before the super competitive Trinity League matches begin on Thursday. Coach Nick and the Breakers were nice hosts - he wanted to play all doubles, so we did, except for 1 line of 3 singles sets, because we only had 11 players.

Huntington Beach, CA — After a squeaker first round win, the Lions picked up a round 2 win, 4-2 over the host school, Marina Vikings. Capturing wins in this round were Cordelia and Cecilia in singles with Olivia/Neeka and Kate/Sophia in doubles. Our respective scores were 8-3, 8-2, 8-0 and 8-3. So at this point in the tournament, Cecilia had won 16 games with only 2 losses and Kate/Sophia 16 games with 7 losses. Individual game talleys are only important if the set scores are tied 3-3. Julia had a tough tiebreaker loss 7-8 at line #2 singles while Ellie and Natalia ran up against the best 2 players on this team and took a 4-8 loss. KOach thinks they had the score tenders incorrect and thought they were cruising to a win. Their opponents were playing an advanced "I" formation, which we do NOT use for several good reasons. We discussed how to beat this arrangement, but, it was after the set. KOach takes the bullet for this.

Huntington Beach, CA — Whew! A close one! USUALLY, the winner of this 2-card pool play, goes undefeated; losing you first match doesn't bode will in final tally. The Lions dodged a bullett by refusing to give up. There were 3 matches in this category...Pictured above, Cecilia gives up no games, which is difficult in this format because one tends to let up when they are winning by such a margain. Not Cecilia!

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 — RECAP FROSH VS ALISO NIGUEL

Newport Coast, CA — Great fan support (we WAY outnumbered them!) and all JSerra players got to play 2 full sets this afternoon. Despite the lopsided score, we were competitive across the board.