In a battle of heavyweights, Turlock High’s tennis team took down crosstown rival Pitman 8-1 on Tuesday evening to take command of the Central California Athletic League standings.
The Bulldogs, the reigning champions, improved to 10-0 on the season and 5-0 against conference opponents. The rest of the field is beating each other up, with Enochs in second at 4-1, and the Pride, whom the Eagles beat a week ago, dropping to 2-2. Pitman’s overall record is 7-2.
The Pride’s lone win came courtesy of Calvin Lin and his defeat of Abraham Wooley by 6-2, 6-1 sets.
In the top singles match, Erik Peterson took down Ryan Yamamoto 6-2, 6-3. Matteo Hernandez also defeated his singles opponent, Derrick Orth, in straight sets, 6-4, 6-1. As did Landon Tilby, winning 6-2, 7-5 against Matthew Yaghoubi.
Damian Acosta and Rashmeet Singh each beat their opponents in three sets.
Acosta pulled away 10-6 in his third-set against Ethan Hoftseen to secure his win. He won the first frame by a 6-3 score and dropped the second, 6-3. A similar story unfolded for Singh, who opened the match with a 7-5 win but dropped the ensuing set 6-4. He won the decisive set 10-7.
In doubles action, two matches went to third sets.
Peter Buie and Yaqoob Tarakhail defeated Sebastian Russell and Christiano Barkhoy 7-6 (1), 6-7 (2), 10-3. Diego Zamora and William Inthongpradith won over Jackson Ojeda and Troy Trevino 4-6, 6-4, 10-6.
The group of Joshua Benjamin and Jessie Gomez won in straight sets (6-3, 6-4) over Keerit Kaeley and Mark Ammari.
Crosstown Cup winners… again
It’s beginning to seem like an annual tradition where the Turlock High boys golf team invites more than a dozen programs from around the region to Turlock Golf and Country Club to beat them. It happened again on Monday.
The reigning, undefeated champion Bulldogs took home the hardware from the all-day event by shooting a combined 14-under-par. They were powered by a 9-under-par performance from the trio of San Jose State-bound Christian Maggard, Carter Van Gaalen and Ezekiel Roque. The grouping of Logan Bream, Thomas Manotok and Daniel Joseph shot a combined 5-under-par.
The ‘Dogs will be back at TGCC on Wednesday afternoon when they face off against Pitman, looking for a third straight match win over a conference opponent.
