The bizarre effects that the Yorba Linda and Corona fires had on high school sports now includes CIF tennis.  Moore League champion Lakewood, a high seed, had been rolling through the CIF tournament, with a convincing victory over Downey—convincing enough to sub out their best singles player, even.  But their second round match against Los Osos, which had been scheduled as a Lancers home match to be played on Saturday, was delayed two days due to the wildfires, and the site location was changed to Los Osos.

So the Lancers drove out there Monday afternoon…and lost to the Baseline League champs.  The loss came on games, not matches, in the same frustrating tiebreaker method that eliminated Poly from the wild card round.  In HS team matches, three rounds are played, with six contests in each round—at the end of play, the team that has won the most matches wins the day.  Unless, that is, there’s a 9-9 tie the way there was for Poly, and for Lakewood on Monday.  When that happens, the match is decided by which team won the most sets, the total taken from all 18 matches.  Lakewood, like Poly, came up on the short end of the racket, falling 78-68 in the set total.

This cuts the Lancers’ promising run short, though they will still have athletes competing in the CIF Individual Tournament, which we’ll bring you coverage of this weekend.

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The Bruins are likely determined to keep any of their team matches from going to the sets tiebreaker, and thus far they’ve been successful.  They won their first round match against Upland 14-4, and their second round match against Centennial/Corona 12-6, leaving no doubt as to the outright winner.  They have now advanced to the quarterfinals, where they’ll face La Reina.  The Bruins will have to take a long road trip, way up the 101 to Thousand Oaks, to face La Reina on their home court this afternoon at 2pm.  Check back tomorrow for an update on their performance.