Boys Tennis vs Lynnwood, Meadowdale & Jackson

With the courts at OHHS now finished, the Boys Tennis team is getting a lot of home matches. The last 3 were all played at home.

Lynnwood came to town on Oct 7th and although the Royals captures both 1st singles and 1st doubles, Oak Harbor took the other 5 matches to win 5-2. Singles winners were Josh Evans (6-3, 6-2), Brandon Vagt (6-2, 6-1) and David DeGuzman (6-2, 6-2). In doubles, winners were Eric Berner and Michael Serna (6-2, 6-3) and Ben Harrison and Will Southard (6-4, 6-1).

First place and 13-1 Meadowdale came to town on Monday the 11th and swept the 'Cats 7-0. With the post-season looming, Coach Mells made a few changes to his lineup. 2nd and 3rd singles, Josh Evans and Brandon Vagt teamed up to form the 1st doubles team and the 3rd doubles team of Will Southard and Eric Berner were split and played as 3rd and 4th singles. David DeGuzman moved up to 2nd singles.

As if facing Meadowdale wasn't enough, two days later, 4A and undefeated Jackson came to town and the Wildcats were swept again 7-0 using the normal lineup. Only Josh Evans, Brandon Vagt and 3rd doubles Ben Harrison and Michael Serna were able to win any games at all.

55 Photos from the Meadowdale match are posted HERE.

Boys Tennis vs Shorewood & Everett

On Monday the Boys Tennis team hosted Shorewood. Earlier in the season the team was swept by the Thunderbirds 7-0, but this time the Wildcats took advantage of some reshuffling of the Shorewood lineup to win the second matchup 4-3, sweeping the singles matches in straight sets. Ben Cardinal won 6-4, 7-5, Josh Evans 6-2, 6-1, Brandon Vagt 6-3, 6-2 and David DeGuzman 6-4, 7-6(1).

On Wednesday, things didn't go as well, hosting Everett. The Seagulls won the match 5-2, with wins coming from 3rd singles Brandon Vagt (6-3, 6-0) and 4th singles David DeGuzman (6-3, 6-3).

Photos of the singles players in action are posted HERE.

Doubles pics are HERE.

Boys Tennis 2010-09-29 vs Mountlake Terrace

Wednesday the Wildcat tennis team opened play on their brand new tennis courts and did it in style, sweeping the visiting Hawks 7-0 and in straight sets.

#1 Ben Cardinal is the only player that had any trouble at all, and that was in the 1st set which went to tiebreaker before Cardinal pulled out teh 7-6(4) win. He won his 2nd set 6-2.

Josh Evans also got scored on, but won 6-2, 6-3.

#3 Brandon Vagt and #4 David DeGuzman both shut out their opponents, 6-0, 6-0.

The crushing continued in doubles play as #1 doubles Max O'Dell and Geoff Worley won 6-2, 6-4, #2 Will Southard and Michael Serna won 6-2, 6-0 and #3 Ben Harrison and Maric Sobreo won 6-2, 6-1.

In extra matches, Marvyn Sionson won 8-0 and Harrison Miller won 8-4.

34 photos from some of the matches are posted HERE.

Boys Tennis

Still waiting for contractors to finish the new OHHS tennis courts, the boys tennis team has been playing all matches on the road.

On 9/17 the team traveled to Everett and was dominated 7-0. None of our boys were able to win even a single set. The win improved Everett's record to 3-1

On 9/20 the boys fell to Meadowdale 2-5, with Brandon Vagt winning 6-2, 6-4 and David DeGuzman going 3 sets to win 6-2, 3-6, 6-2. Meadowdale is undefeated this year.

Sept 21st was at Lynnwood and although Oak Harbor lost 4-3, coach Mells said it could have gone either way. He said that 4th singles Max O'Dell played a hard 3-set match that went to tiebreaker and 1st doubles (Geoff Worley and Eric Berner) were leading 5-2 in the 3rd set when Lynnwood mounted a comeback to win the match. Individual OH winners were #2 Brandon Vagt (6-2, 6-3) and #3 David DeGuzman (6-0, 6-1). The #2 doubles team of Will Southard and Michael Serna won 6-4, 2-6, 6-4.

Continuing the grueling road trip, the Wildcats went to 4A Marysville and picked up wins by #2 singles Josh Evans (6-3, 6-1) and #4 singles David DeGuzman (6-4, 6-2) but that was it for Oak Harbor as Marysville won 5-2.

The road trip ends Thursday with a match at Glacier Peak. With luck and some decent weather, the OH courts may be ready for play next week.

Boys Tennis

After winning their season opener 7-0, the Wildcat boys tennis team dropped back-to-back matches against Shorecrest and Shorewood last Friday and Monday.

In the Shorecrest match, only senior Brandon Vagt was able to get a win with a 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 decision over Lyn Vergara. All the other Wildcats lost in straight sets except 2nd doubles Eric Berner and Michael Serna who won their first set before losing the final 2.

On Monday, Shorewood swept the 'Cats 7-0. 2nd singles Josh Evans came close to a win with scores of 4-6, 5-7. Brandon Vagt played well in the first set, going to 4 tiebreakers before falling 6-7(4) but was beaten 1-6 in the 2nd set.

Oak Harbor is now 1-2 on the season and should be able to start playing matches at the new OHHS courts very soon.

Boys Tennis 2010-09-09 vs Mountlake Terrace

At Mountlake Terrace, the Wildcat boys tennis team started their season in a good way, sweeping the host Hawks 7-0, with every match won in straight sets.

Ben Cardinal beat John Kim 6-1, 6-1
Josh Evans beat Stuart Milner 6-0, 6-1
Brandon Vagt beat Leo Lui 6-1, 6-1
David DeGuzman beat Ty Seyoum 6-0, 6-3

Doubles

Max O'Dell and Geoff Worley beat Pingul and Jung 6-2, 6-1
Eric Berner and Michael Serna beat Ho and Roberts 6-1, 5-1
Ben Harrison and Will Southard beat Morrison and Morgan 6-1, 6-3

In exhibition matches, Maric Sobreo and Harrison Miller lost to Kim and Milner. The MLT players were the #1 and #2 singles players put together for the exhibition doubles match.

Also, Marvyn Sionson lost a very close match to Bryce Pingul, 9-8(4)