REDLANDS, CA — "Off the schneid" is an American expression that means to break a scoreless streak. It is derived from the card game gin rummy, where schneid or schneider refers to the situation where one side has failed to score.] "We never 'failed to score, or we would not have made the championship match three previous times" says, KOach Kirk. "I was beginning to feel like the Jim Kelly of the OC, three times a charm didn't pan out either and our 1st championship loss was also the day before our banquet. Now I feel like the Miami Dolphins of the OC!"

San Juan Capistrano, CA — 13-5 ! JSerra is headed back to the CIF Championships.

Rancho Cucamonga, CA — The Lions went on the road today and defeated the Los Osos Grizzlies 11-7. This was a complete team effort as doubles supplied 6 sets, the singles guys posting 5. Alex Brown/Mikey Junge, Connor Faul/Mike Geffre, Cade Faul/Marco Belciano all took care of the Grizz' line 2 and 3 doubles team for 6 sets. Brady Schaefgen and Riley Anson picked up 2 each and Cole Carlson added the 5th.

San Juan Capistrano, CA — The boys kept their Miami dreams alive with a resounding home victory over the Calabasas Coyotes, 16-3. This was a 2nd round event as the Lions earned a 1st round buy via a well-earned #2 seeding.

San Juan Capistrano, CA — Epic win for undefeated season!

San Juan Capistrano, CA — Mathematically, JSerra clinched the league championship with a solid 15 - 3 victory over Servite at home. KOach asked for a big opening act, got it, 5 -1 in round one, but the boys one-upped that with a 6 - 0 closing act! Sandwiched in between was a 4-2 second round.

Lakewood, CA — The Lions traveled up the 405 to Lakewood and defeated Bosco 17 - 1.

Rancho Santa Margarita, CA — Wow! EPIC comeback, 24 hours after Lions baseball does same thing in their house!

Costa Mesa, CA — Today was a tough assignment as the Lions come of a 10 day vacay of frolicking in the sand, sun, snow around the globe. "It's always a chore to see who played and who didn't," says KOach, but, once they start serving, I can tell right away." The chore in this assignment was moving people around a little switching some teams up and even swapping some deuce/ad positions.

Fullerton, CA — Historically, the Fullerton tennis Center has not been good to us, but, today we got a little love from her.

San Juan Capistrano, CA — Bosco traveled with a full team this year, they only had 4 players at home when we played last year

San Juan Capistrano, CA — The Lions stuck to our script today and put a hurt on the blue kool aid man, 10-8.

San Juan Capistrano, CA — JSerra opened up Trinity League play and the boys put a big hurt on OLu straight out of the gate, sweeping 5 of the 6 sets. Thinking that was a pretty good pattern, they repeated it in rounds two and three. Line 1 singles was in doubt for a bit as Brady had to come back from a break down, he groveled his way into a tiebreaker, powered his spinach, "I am what I am" and took the tiebreaker easily. His opponent never recovered from this and Cole walked all over him in the 2nd round, 6-2. Singles players went 3-2-1 for total of 9 sets, Emilio picking up opening round one victory at line 3.

San Juan Capistrano, CA — The varsity boys came out swinging today and didn't let up! Not as strong as previous years and missing 2 starters, Crean competed well at line 1 dubs and 2 dubs with a legit freshman in singles.

San Juan Capistrano, CA — Varsity boys tennis keep on truckin' and they don't even know it!

Dana Point, CA — JSerra moves to 3 and OH early in the 2024 campaign. Dana Hills Dolphins fielded three very strong singles players who Brady and Cole took care of, taking 5 sets! Stars of the day were JSerra's doubles teams, the Faul Twins, Mikey and Marco and Emilio and Hudson were relentless sweeping ALL 9 sets giving up a mere 11 games. These guys are ALL MVP's of this 14 - 4 'victory at sea'! Brady was down 0-4 in the last round fighting back vs #1 Dolphin, Hans... Brady resurfaced and took the tiebreaker for the win.. 7- 6 [7-2]. Freshman Alex Brown competed very well at line #2 singles... and Cole was amazing! Varsity has the day off tomorrow, back next week vs Tesoro then San Juan Hills!

San Juan Capistrano, CA — JSerra unleashed a powerful Pride of Lions today on their home battlefield over Foothill of Tustin. In their 2nd outing of this young season, JSerra fielded 3 freshman at line1and 3 singles, the other as 1/2 the top doubles team; Riley Anson, Alex Brown and Michael Geffre respectively. Foothill is historically one of the top teams in OC and always in CIF contention. KOach Kirk does not like to give "bulletin board fodder" but notes,"This is probably our strongest boys team ever, I've got a good feeling! I really love the collegiate atmosphere, brought about by our awesome facility, fantastic fans; parents, grandparents, friends and family support, coupled with the cohesiveness of this young team. It's an amazing environment to have a team buy into the same goal together and makes my 'job' fun!"

San Juan Capistrano, CA — The 2024 Boys varsity tennis opened up with a big win yesterday at home, versus El Toro.