Something I forgot to publish, I found it today faithfully waiting for me in my drafts. Thanks Rachel McMillen for your edits and advice on how to write a sports blog!
JV Tennis Makes it to League
On November 5, Fountain Valley's junior varsity team competed in the league semi-finals at Edison. Ranked fourth in the league, the FV girls played against some of the best girls in Orange County, including girls from Esperanza, Los Alamitos, Newport Harbor, Edison and Marina.
FV started out with 6 spots total, three doubles and three singles. Unfortunately though, they lost 3 spots after the first round. Doubles players Alaa Abu-Adas (’10), Lillian Pham (’10), Kinsey Brose (’10) and Komal Ram (’11) as well as singles player Julie Le (’10) put up a good fight, but it wasn't enough to beat Newport Harbor, Los Alamitos or Edison.
Doubles players Tiffany Le (’11) and Darlene Tieu (’11) had better luck though, beating Newport Harbor 8-7 and moving into Round 2. Singles player Marian Bhan (’11) won a close match against Newport Harbor and Tran Phan (’10), also a singles player, crushed Marina 8-1. Both players also moved into Round 2.
Round 2 was tough and unfortunately the Barons’ singles could not beat the Griffins singles to win the semi-finals.
However, across the court Le and Tieu were victorious in both their doubles matches against Esperanza, the top school in league. Scoring 6-2 in the first match and 6-3 in the second one, the doubles team ensured their spot in the finals tomorrow.
The girls did their best and though they were fourth in league, they beat many players from the top three schools. The girls JV team hasn't had a final spot in league for years so it will make for some very exciting matches.
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Yay!
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