Carpinteria boys tennis dropped a road matchup against Thousand Oaks on Wednesday by a score of 15-3.
“We started slow and never fully recovered until the last round,” Warriors coach Charles Bryant said. “The score is fairly lopsided but the sets were all relatively close. As much as we started slowly, I was happy with how we finished strong.”
Elio Taha had a solid day, winning two of his three sets in singles action to account for most of the Carpinteria points.
“It was great to see [Taha] in full control of those last two wins,” Bryant said. “He used a wide variety of shots to keep his opponents off balance.”
The other point for the Warriors came from Servando Campuzano, who took down the No. 2 singles player of Thousand Oaks.
“Servando was steady throughout and he played the part of a wall as he just kept getting the ball back and eventually broke down his opponent,” Bryant said. “It was a great effort by both our players today. Edwin Hernandez, although he did not win today, was close in all his sets.”
“In doubles, Lucas and Nolan Martin fought valiantly but ended up dropping hard-earned sets. With a few points here and there, their storyline would be in the winners column.”
Carpinteria is still in search of its first win of the year, now holding a record of 0-3.
“Overall, it was a good experience to play a talented tennis school,” Bryant said. “I think we are doing a good job learning from our early season losses and am hoping we can start to translate those into wins soon.”
