The Santa Barbara boys tennis team stretched its legs in the first round of the Division I CIF playoffs on Thursday, using 22 players in a 13-5 defeat of visiting West Torrance.
The No. 3-seeded Dons swept all nine doubles sets. Christian Wheeler and Matt Demopoulos were the only Santa Barbara players to play three sets, teaming up to sweep in doubles. Evan Teufel-Chris Williams and Bill Grokenberger-Danny Diaz both won two sets each before giving way to subs.
“Obviously we had a good day in doubles, we had five teams play very well,” noted Dons head coach Steve Geremia.
Santa Barbara hits the road on Friday to face Dana Hills, which defeated Sinora 17-1, in the second round.
SANTA BARBARA 13, WEST TORRANCE 5
SB Singles – Chase Melton 1-0, Chris Grant 0-2, Spencer Simon 2-0, Tanay Pattani 0-1, Matt Baum 1-1, Cooper Matheson 0-1. WT Singles – Justin Yoo 1-2, Kevin Parr 2-1, Kyu Han 2-1.
SB Doubles – Evan Teufel-Chris Williams 2-0, Adrian Huffard-Matt Busch 1-0, Bill Grokenberger-Danny Diaz 2-0, Logan Liddell- Jeremy Kirchhoff 1-0, Christian Wheeler-Matt Demopoulos 3-0. WT Doubles – Ratan Naraynrhu-Andrash Cruz-Retg 0-3, Devin Chow-Erik Hu 0-3, Eric Valacarm-Wade Ghroaaua 0-3.
