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Ramona doubles sweep costs Warriors tennis league opener

During a high school tennis match each of a school’s three singles players has a set against each of the other school’s three singles players and each of the three doubles tandems plays each opposing doubles team. One point is awarded for the winner of each set.

The Valley League opener for both Fallbrook High School and Ramona High School took place Sept. 12, at the Riviera Oaks courts in Ramona. Fallbrook prevailed in eight of the nine singles sets, but Ramona won all nine doubles sets to give the Bulldogs a 10-8 victory over the Warriors.

“We can’t win a match if we don’t win a doubles set,” Fallbrook coach Bill Lenaway said.

Nicole Dulin, who is one of two seniors on the Fallbrook team, won all three of her singles sets as did sophomore Alexa Guadarrama. Fallbrook sophomore Carli Hawkins won two singles sets and lost to junior Kiera Duffy, who in last year’s Valley League tournament defeated Dulin in the match for the final CIF tournament singles berth.

Ramona’s doubles teams won two 6-0 sets, four 6-1 sets, one 6-2 set, one 6-3 set and one 6-4 set.

“We just have to work harder,” Lenaway said. “We have certain things we're supposed to be doing and we're not getting them done.”

The statistic of returning starters was also in Ramona’s favor; six of the Ramona players were starters in 2018 while five of Fallbrook’s 2018 starters played Sept. 12. The 2019 Ramona contingent consisted of two seniors and seven juniors while five of the Fallbrook players are freshmen or sophomores.

“It was still a really close match,” Lenaway said.

The loss left Fallbrook with a 2-5 overall season record along with the 0-1 league mark. The Warriors’ non-league defeats include matches against Westview and La Costa Canyon.

“We’ve lost to some pretty good programs,” Lenaway said.

San Pasqual visits the Fallbrook Tennis Club for a Valley League match, Sept. 19.

“Looking forward to being at home this week,” Lenaway said.

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Joe Naiman, Writer

Joe Naiman has been writing for the Village News since 2001

 

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