CITY SECTION TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS: ECR SWEEPS TO ANOTHER CITY TITLE.Byline: Chris Cocoles Staff Writer Doubles players carried their team to a City Section boys' tennis championship. Just not the guys expected to make a difference. El Camino Real El Camino Real (Spanish for The Royal Road or The King's Highway) was the name of a series of pre-automobile highways linking the various New World colonies of Spain:
ECR ECR Efficient Consumer Response ECR European Congress of Radiology ECR Electron Cyclotron Resonance ECR El Camino Real (Kings Highway; California) ECR Electronic Cash Register ECR East Coast Radio (South Africa) of Woodland Hills' second consecutive City title wasn't shocking. The top-seeded Conquistadores (17-0) beat the No. 2 Highlanders (14-3) twice in their regular-season West Valley League meetings. But Granada Hills won five of six doubles matches in those league contests and depended on controlling that facet of the round-robin match Thursday. Instead, ECR went 7-2 in the doubles draw to complement the Conquistadores' anticipated singles dominance (10-2). ``I can't tell you how much our doubles teams stepped up today,'' said senior No. 1 singles player Matt Jones, who lost four total games in sweeping his four matches. ``They set their goals high and they just achieved them.'' The Highlanders' three doubles teams lost just one match or set among them in regular and postseason City Section play. In a pivotal No. 1 doubles matchup, unbeaten Highlanders Brad Steinberg and Anand Murthy held a 6-1 tiebreak tie·break n. See tiebreaker. lead against Nick Kogan and Shaun Flynn. ECR staved off the five set points to draw even at 6-6. ``I was standing there saying '6-1.' We couldn't do anything about it. And then we started winning points,'' said Flynn, who along with Kogan eventually reached set point at 9-8. ``Nick served and they hit it into the net. I was ecstatic.'' The feeling was contagious contagious /con·ta·gious/ (-jus) capable of being transmitted from one individual to another, as a contagious disease; communicable. con·ta·gious adj. 1. Of or relating to contagion. . The Conquistadores' second doubles, Phil Gegenheimer and Don Nguyen, beat previously undefeated Dustin Sorotsky and Alex Tovar 6-1. ``All the stuff ... about it was our doubles against their singles. It was our doubles vs. their doubles and they really played well,'' Highlanders coach Ron Wood Ronald David "Ronnie" Wood (born June 1, 1947 in Hillingdon, London) is an English rock guitarist and bassist best known as a member of The Rolling Stones, Faces, and The Jeff Beck Group. said. ``They had too much firepower fire·pow·er n. 1. The capacity, as of a weapon, weapons system, military unit, or position, for delivering fire. 2. The ability to deliver fire against an enemy in combat. Noun 1. .'' Added Flynn, ``We were hungry. We went out there and wanted to win. ... I think this is the best team El Camino will ever have.'' In the City Section Invitational in·vi·ta·tion·al adj. Restricted to invited participants: an invitational golf tournament. n. An event, especially a sports tournament, restricted to invited participants. Adj. 1. finals: --Taft 17 1/2, Cleveland 12: The Toreadors (8-9), seeded ninth, followed up their semifinal upset of No. 1 Chatsworth to beat the Cavaliers (9-8) in another matchup of West Valley League teams. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: El Camino Real singles player Matt Jones reaches for a shot Thursday in the City Section boys championships. Gene Blevins/Special to the Daily News |
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