Woodbridge overpowers Fountain Valley in first round
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Boys tennis roundup: Santa Margarita, Mater Dei and Dana Hills advance to second round.
Two strong teams from strong leagues seemingly would produce a close tennis match. It didn’t happen.
The Woodbridge boys team got off to a hot start en route to a 15-3 victory over Fountain Valley on Thursday afternoon in the first round of the CIF-Southern Section Division I playoffs at Woodbridge High.
The Warriors (15-5) move on to play fourth-seed Peninsula of Rolling Hills Estates in Saturday's second round. A coin flip today will determine the home team and site.
Woodbridge, the second-place finisher in the Sea View League, got off to a 5-1 lead after the first set of matches and led, 11-1, heading into the third set.
The Barons finished 14-5 overall and were second in the Sunset League.
“I was hoping to have a closer match," Fountain Valley coach Jay Gardner said as he watched his No. 3 doubles team lose to end the match. "A lot of the first-round matches were close. We lost the 5-7's and 4-6's. The chance was there early.”
Woodbridge junior Andre Halabi swept at No. 1 singles, 6-1, 6-0, 6-0, and sophomore Mikey Zablan swept at the No. 2 spot, 6-1, 6-2, 6-0. Shuei Ikeda and Joseph Pao-Wu swept at No. 1 doubles, 7-5, 7-6 (5), 6-0.
It was a good turnaround for Fountain Valley, which finished fifth in league last year and did not reach the playoffs.
"It was still our year to a certain extent," Gardner said. "We finished second and we're very proud of that."
Also in Division I:
Santa Margarita 13, Aliso Niguel 5: Ali Makamalchi swept at No. 1 singles, 6-1, 6-1, 6-0, and Evan Hashimoto and Jameson Lee swept at No. 1 doubles, 6-2, 6-1, 6-2, to lead the host Eagles (15-6) over the Wolverines (9-7).
Santa Margarita will play Harvard-Westlake of North Hollywood in the second round. A coin flip today will determine Saturday's site.
Mater Dei 11, Los Alamitos 7: Rickey Baylo and Ryan Agbayani swept at No. 1 doubles, 6-2, 6-3, 6-2, to lead the No. 3-seed Monarchs (20-1) at Mater Dei.
Dana Hills 12, Irvine 6: Evan Bolles and Taylor Stephan swept at No. 1 doubles, 7-5, 6-1, 6-0, and Mark Bloom and Mark Saad did the same at No. 2 doubles, 6-1, 6-4, 6-0, to lead the host Dolphins (22-2).
Marina 14, San Clemente 4: The host Vikings (19-2) won eight of nine singles matches against the Tritons (9-10).
Northwood 16, Westlake of Westlake Village 2: Junya Yoshida swept at No. 1 singles, 6-2, 7-5, 6-0, to lead the host Timberwolves (17-3).
Troy 16, Foothill 2: Junior Justin Thompson swept at No. 2 singles, 6-4, 6-,1, 6-1, to lead the host Warriors (23-2).
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