claremont, CA — 5 matches in 8 school days, 100's miles traveled, lottsa missed schoolwork, 63 sets won vs 27 sets lost = JSerra's first ever CIF tennis championship. (Boys have lost twice in the finals, 9-9 75-71 and last year 8-10), but, this was good as gold!

San Juan Capistrano, CA — Coach was bummed just prior to the game, in fact other team arrived and he was still in the office trying to think about maybe a lineup change... this was after looking at UTR reports on Campbell Halls top 2 players. "A high 9.7 coupled with a 7.5 is much higher than any of my singles players" said KOach, "but I didn't waant the team to know. I did however pull the captain aside with another player to see what they thought. I tld them 'We are gonna go with who we brought to the dance'. They had no idea what I meant, so, I told them, 'no change' . This match was MUCH closer than it looked, there were two 7-6 tiebreakers [both went our way] along with another 7-5 win with a couple of 6-4's sprinkled in.

Fullerton, CA — Very satisfying day today as the Lions come home from Fullerton with a 'W' in their pocket.

Goleta, CA — As the team got off the bus and was in search of any open restrooms, I thought I was on the set my of one of my favorite Jack Nicholson's movies and was looking around for "Chief" in the paint for way longer than 3 seconds.

San Juan Capistrano, CA — The girls played as a unit today, defeating Temecula Valley, 15 - 3. KOach rotated in all 7 subs in round 3 as Aerin / Anna closed out their round2 win over the Bears best duo. This gave the Lions the 10th set they needed to secure the match. All three starting doubles team would have completed the 9 set win: Sophia/Kylie and Jazmine/Gabbi, which would make them MVP's, all around. The only person to win 3 sets on the court for real was Victoria, who easily captured sets at line 3, then 2 before upsetting the Bears top singles player today. Rosalia had an impressive win at line 2 in the last round and Halle breezed through her 2 sets. Julia with Ava S. took on the line 1 doubles team and ended up with a neat little 6-3 victory.