SO. SECTION TENNIS SEMIFINALS: DOUBLE DEFEAT FOR TITLE-HUNGRY H.-W. BOTH PAIRS MEET DEMISE IN SEMIS.Byline: Sean Martin Sean Martin may refer to:
SEAL BEACH Seal Beach, city (1990 pop. 25,098), Orange co., S Calif., on the Pacific coast; inc. 1915. It is a beach city with an active art colony. Transportation equipment and concrete are among the city's manufactures. U.S. naval stations are nearby. - Three of the four Harvard-Westlake of North Hollywood team members who played in the Southern Section doubles tournament primarily play singles, but decided to forgo solo competition to have a better chance at adding to the Wolverines' 2002 and 2004 Div. I team titles. But the title hopes of this year's two doubles teams ended in the Southern Section semifinals Saturday at Seal Beach Tennis Center. Canyon of Anaheim's Scott Hohenstein and Ryan Sandburg defeated Harvard-Westlake's Sam Wagner and Josh Lederman 7-5, 6-4, and Nick Berger and Andy Gerst of Redondo Union of Redondo Beach Redondo Beach (rĭdŏn`dō), city (1990 pop. 60,167), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1892. Once a commercial port for Los Angeles, it is a residential and resort city with a protected harbor and an excellent marina. defeated the Wolverines' Ryan and Bret Thacher 6-4, 7-6 (7-1). ``This is not a sad day,'' said Chris Simpson Christopher Patrick Simpson (born 9 January, 1982) in Brisbane, Queensland, is an Australian cricketer who plays for the Queensland Bulls in Australian domestic cricket. He is a right arm offbreak bowler and right handed batsman. Simpson attened villanova college. , coach of Harvard-Westlake, the only team to have more than one entrant competing Saturday. ``To get two teams into the semifinals is impressive.'' Hohenstein and Sandburg, the 2003 Southern Section doubles champions and winners of the CIF (1) (Common Intermediate Format) A standard video format used in videoconferencing. CIF formats are defined by their resolution, and standards both above and below the original resolution have been established. The original CIF is also known as Full CIF (FCIF). doubles competition at this year's Ojai Tournament, defeated Berger and Gerst in the final 7-5, 3-6, 6-4. Competing as a new doubles team is no easy task, and it showed Saturday. Doubles requires communication between partners and a greater emphasis on volleying, something Bret Thacher said he struggled with. ``I felt awkward on the court,'' Bret Thacher said. ``Sometimes I didn't know what to hit and what balls to leave.'' The Thacher brothers fell behind 3-0 in the first set. They appeared to have the second set in hand while serving with a 5-3 lead. But the Redondo Union pair, which has played together for four years, won three of the next four games, as well as the tiebreaker tie·break·er n. An additional contest or period of play designed to establish a winner among tied contestants. Also called tiebreak. tie . Bret Thacher, who will play for Division III Williams College in Massachusetts next year, said he played doubles to compete alongside his younger brother one more time in high-school competition. Freshman Ryan Thacher, the only Wolverine wolverine or glutton, largest member of the weasel family, Gulo gulo, found in the northern parts of North America and Eurasia, usually in high mountains near the timberline or in tundra. competing Saturday who plays mostly doubles, also was the only non-senior in the doubles semis. Wagner and Lederman, who won this year's Mission League doubles title to qualify for the postseason, lost to arguably the Southern Section's best team. ``Their serve was huge,'' the Boston College-bound Wagner said of Hohenstein and Sandburg. ``They were impossible to break.'' Sean Martin, (818) 713-3607 sean.martin(at)dailynews.com |
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