One day after knocking off the No. 8 seed from the North, Jamaica and Joica Buyse ran into the No. 8 seed from the South on Friday and came up short in the CCCAA State Tournament at Buena High.
Jamaica and Joica Buyse surprised the No. 8 seed from the North to move into the Round of 32 in the women’s doubles at the State Tennis Tournament, which is being played at the 119th Ojai.
Orange Coast swept the doubles 3-0 on Tuesday and then won the No. 1 and 3 singles to top SBCC 5-0 in a Southern Cal Regional women's tennis semifinal in Costa Mesa.
SBCC erased a 4-3 deficit with a pair of three-set victories on Tuesday to slip past Fullerton 5-4 in a Southern Cal Regional women’s tennis playoff opener at Fullerton.
SBCC landed six players on the All-WSC women’s tennis team after sweeping through conference play with a 14-0 record. The Vaqueros, 16-3 overall, won their first WSC title since 2001.
The Buyse twins, Jamaica and Joica from Belgium, both reached the quarterfinals in the WSC Individual Women’s Tennis Championships on Saturday at Ventura College. They were two of six SBCC players who qualified for the state tournament.
SBCC swept the last four singles matches on Tuesday and then won the first two doubles points to defeat Bakersfield 6-3 and clinch its first Western State Conference title since 2001.
After tying the singles 3-3 on Friday afternoon, SBCC dropped all three doubles sets to Fullerton and lost a 6-3 non-conference women’s tennis match at Pershing Park.
Jamaica Buyse and Joica Buyse took the No. 1 and 2 singles and teamed up for an 8-0 win at No. 1 doubles on Thursday, leading first-place SBCC to a 9-0 women’s tennis victory at Antelope Valley.
Anya Nicolaides and Victoria Dafos rallied to post three-set wins at Nos. 3 and 4 singles on Tuesday as SBCC came back to defeat Irvine Valley 5-4 in a non-conference women’s tennis match on the road.
Joica Buyse rallied past Alba Gonzalez on Friday to give SBCC the decisive fifth point in a 6-3 women’s tennis victory over defending state champion Cerritos. Buyse, a freshman from Izegem, Belgium, posted the 6-2, 4-6, 6-1 triumph in No. 2 singles at the Pershing Park courts.