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San Juan Capistrano, CA — "We had a group of ladies that BATTLED in this match. The girls fought right up to the last ball

Santa Barbara, CA — The Lions traveled to Santa Barbara to play the #1 team from the Channel Island league, San Marcos, who earned a 15-2 record this year. KOach Kirk adds, "We never really know the strength of the CI league teams because we do not have 'like' opponents. Two of their girls have 6+ UTR's is all we knew. We traveled far, battled well, ate well and had fun coming home on the bus. Great day to be a LION."

Anaheim, CA — When the Trinity dust cleared, there was a 2-way tie for 3rd place. JSerra was adamnat about playing off this game, which are the Trinity Bylaw Rules; but, OLu wanted a coin flip. No way were we going to settle for a coin flip for a CIF trip, it was understandable why OLu wanted that option.

San Juan Capistrano, CA — What a great day at the JSerra Tennis Complex, thanks to Dr [Mrs.] Aftabi and Mrs Hetland. Their vision and creativity made this the best ever senior night we have ever had! By Far!

Mission Viejo, CA — The Lady Lions fall to St. Margaret's 11-7 today, dropping them to 3rd place in the 'mythical' San Juan Capistrano Championship. San Juan Hills defeated JSerra earlier in pre season and handled St Margarets in the same fashion. The match was played at the beautiful new Saddleback CC tennis complex and the weather was perfect. KOach O played entire squad present, 20+, rotating a few in at start of round 2, and 8 of 9 subs in line 3.

Rancho Santa Margarita, CA — Expectations were definitely exceeded today as the Lions were able to garner 5 more sets than our first match Sept 28. SM subbed out their line 3 player which gave us the set Neeka won, but, that was the only difference this change made.

Fullerton, CA — JSerra Lady Lions took their last road trip 'ever' to play Rosary at the Fulleeton Tennis Center and KOach couldn't be happier! [due to driving, distance and early start at a public facility].Rosary is dropping out of the Trinity League....

San Juan Capistrano, CA — Every once in a while, stuff happens. We simply move on.

Fountain Valley, CA — The Lions traveled to Ftn Valley today for their 2nd league match of the year. This Mater Dei team lost in the finals of the elite division last year and JSerra battled today for a respectable finish 6-12

San Juan Capistrano, CA — JSerra Lions 2023 Varsity opened up league today with a 12-6 home victory over OLu.

San Juan Capistrano, CA — Our battle for the city championship was upended today on our own courts. San Juan Hills is just a strong team with top end strength and depth.

Aliso Viejo, CA — Our neighbor to the west of us was not too neighborly today, muscleing out 15 sets to our 3.

Laguna Beach, CA — This score was a total surprise to all of us, definitely not the same team we faced last year. Their coach did a great job of rebuilding / bringing former players back in to the fold.

San Juan Capistrano, CA — All of the girls competed well in this victory. Again, KOach used every sub, 18 players in all, as this time, the victory was secured at the completion of the 2nd round, 11 - 1.

Huntington Beach, CA — Pretty good outing for only having 8 days of workouts and challenge matches. If we played strength vs strength, JSerra comes out a winner

Anaheim, CA — JSerra’s JV team won Trinity League for the 3rd time in school history, 2nd time as undefeated in league play.

San Juan Capistrano, CA — Mathematically and officially, JSerra’s JV team is now the 2022 Trinity League Champions. With one easy dual match remaining vs Orange Lutheran, the team should remain undefeated in league for the 2nd time in school history.

Rancho Santa Margarita, CA — JV takes commanding lead in Trinity League standings, undefeated after 6 matches, w Orange Lutheran and Rosary left on schedule. MD has 3 losses, SM has 2 - they play again next Thursday.

San Juan Capistrano, CA — Huge win today for our girls and the program, started out slow though….the “photographer” didn’t get a lot of pictures, spent more time coaching, watching and cheerleading. 🤪🚫📸

San Juan Capistrano, CA — It’s been awhile since we’ve played the visiting Gaels from Las Vegas’ Bishop Gorman High School. We’ve beaten them a few times in the past at the varsity level in the Sage Hill Prep Classic.

San Juan Capistrano, CA — JSerra JV team took an early season Trinity League lead this afternoon after posting their 2nd straight Trinity win, this time against the defending league champs: SMCHS Eagles.

Laguna Beach, CA — We added Laguna Beach late to give their new varsity coach more pre-league matches. This also gave us an opportunity to put in the A & B travel squads before the super competitive Trinity League matches begin on Thursday. Coach Nick and the Breakers were nice hosts - he wanted to play all doubles, so we did, except for 1 line of 3 singles sets, because we only had 11 players.

Huntington Beach, CA — After a squeaker first round win, the Lions picked up a round 2 win, 4-2 over the host school, Marina Vikings. Capturing wins in this round were Cordelia and Cecilia in singles with Olivia/Neeka and Kate/Sophia in doubles. Our respective scores were 8-3, 8-2, 8-0 and 8-3. So at this point in the tournament, Cecilia had won 16 games with only 2 losses and Kate/Sophia 16 games with 7 losses. Individual game talleys are only important if the set scores are tied 3-3. Julia had a tough tiebreaker loss 7-8 at line #2 singles while Ellie and Natalia ran up against the best 2 players on this team and took a 4-8 loss. KOach thinks they had the score tenders incorrect and thought they were cruising to a win. Their opponents were playing an advanced "I" formation, which we do NOT use for several good reasons. We discussed how to beat this arrangement, but, it was after the set. KOach takes the bullet for this.

Huntington Beach, CA — Whew! A close one! USUALLY, the winner of this 2-card pool play, goes undefeated; losing you first match doesn't bode will in final tally. The Lions dodged a bullett by refusing to give up. There were 3 matches in this category...Pictured above, Cecilia gives up no games, which is difficult in this format because one tends to let up when they are winning by such a margain. Not Cecilia!

San Juan Capistrano, CA — The lopsided score does not tell the whole story. Yes, Santa Margarita is very solid this year, from top to bottom, however, JSerra is the only team to even get a set of the Eagle’s JV team this year in Trinity League.

San Juan Capistrano, CA — JV Lady Lions got their overall record into the positive (now 8-7 overall, 3-1 in Trinity League) with a resounding win over visiting Mater Dei this afternoon.

Newport Coast, CA — Great fan support (we WAY outnumbered them!) and all JSerra players got to play 2 full sets this afternoon. Despite the lopsided score, we were competitive across the board.