SBCC’s Sasha Hedberg and Emerson Sekban moved into the Round of 32 on Thursday on the first day of the CCCAA Men’s Tennis State Championships at the 116th Ojai Valley Tournament.
Emerson Sekban and Andrew Tufenkian fell behind 4-1 in their WSC doubles semifinal set on Thursday and Ventura’s Michael Burr/Guenter Newman held off the SBCC duo, 8-5.
SBCC’s Sasha Hedberg and Emerson Sekban both won a pair of matches in straight sets on Friday to move into the quarterfinals of the WSC men’s tennis tournament at Ventura College.
Sasha Hedberg, Emerson Sekban, Ryan Chung and Andrew Tufenkian were double winners in men’s tennis on Thursday as SBCC cruised past Bakersfield 7-2 for a WSC road win.
SBCC won the first five singles matches on Thursday to secure its first men's tennis home win with an 8-1 decision over Bakersfield at the Pershing Park courts.
Ventura took four singles matches and two doubles on Thursday to spoil SBCC’s first home tennis match in three years with a 6-3 victory at Pershing Park.
SBCC won every set on Tuesday and cruised past L.A. Pierce 9-0 for its first men's tennis victory of the season in Woodland Hills. It was the first win in three years for the Vaqueros (1-4, 1-0), who revived their team this year after a two-year hiatus, and their first WSC win.
Andrew Tufenkian posted a pair of wins in his season debut on Friday but SBCC dropped a 5-4 heartbreaker at San Diego City in a nonconference men’s tennis match.
The sixth annual Special Olympics Tennis Classic raised nearly $6,000 as well as the spirits of 31 Special Olympians from Santa Barbara and Santa Maria.