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City's netters out, await team play Friday
RRHS’s Mia Westmoreland gets her photo taken by a fan as she makes a return in her doubles match Wednesday afternoon.
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ALBUQUERQUE — It wasn’t the best first day at the state tennis tournament for City of Vision netters, as only one male of three and both females advanced into the quarterfinals at the Jerry Cline tennis complex in the Northeast Heights.
But that’s where their hopes of bringing home a trophy ended.
Cleveland High School’s District 1-5A boys champ Ethan Hendricks defeated Carter Follin of Centennial (6-2, 6-2) in the first round, then was eliminated in the quarterfinals by No. 2 seed Jaime Moran of La Cueva, 6-0, 6-3.
Hendricks’s teammate, Martin Mondragon, was knocked out in the opening round by Albuquerque High’s No. 3 seed, Mitchell Rocca, 6-0, 6-1.
Rio Rancho’s Ryan Meier was defeated in his first-round match by Piedra Vista’s Anson Harris, 6-3, 6-2.
The city’s girls had better first-round matches, as RRHS’s Ella Jones, a middle schooler and the fifth seed, beat Isabelle Lescombes of Mayfield 6-3, 6-4, but then fell in the quarterfinals to No. 4 seed Marley Deswood of Farmington, 6-0, 6-0.
Cleveland’s Lily Walker, who lost to Jones in the District 1-5A title match, beat Maddi Simon of Hobbs, 6-0, 6-2, to get her day started, but lost to No. 2 seed Cameron King of La Cueva, 6-0, 6-1, in the quarters.
Oddly, all 24 singles matches contested Wednesday ended in straight sets — none went a third set.
In doubles action, all six of the city’s tandems lost in straight sets in the opening round.
For the boys, Cleveland’s No. 5 seeds Tyler Nunn and Christian Guerra, the 1-5 champs, were defeated by Linus Wang and Cole Segura of La Cueva, 6-2, 6-3.
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The District 1-5A doubles runners-up, Jarret Casalduc and Martin Mondragon, were knocked out in the first round by No. 1 tandem Tyler Kim and Thaaj Bhardwaj, 6-2, 6-1.
Rio Rancho’s unseeded pair of Austin (Searle) and Boston (Baugh) were beaten 6-0, 6-1, Santa Fe’s No. 3 duo of Carlos Flores and Humza Mahmood.
Three girls doubles teams also lost in the opening round.
Sixth-seeded Rams Emily Miller and Mia Westmoreland, the district doubles champs, battled back after losing the first set, 6-4, to Carlsbad’s Olivia Glissen and Mariel Aguilera and won the second set handily, 6-1. But the RRHS duo was knocked out with a 6-3 loss in the third set.
The Rams’ Aurora Espinosa and Ella Lapointe, the 1-5A doubles runners-up, lost their opening-round match to No. 1 Eldorado’s Vivica Corley and Addison Arndt, 6-0, 6-1.
Cleveland’s Jade Duong and Sahara Fox fell to Alamogordo’s Evony Lopez and Eva Westover, 6-1, 6-3.
On Thursday, May 9, the semifinals and finals were played at Jerry Cline Park.
On Friday, the boys team tournament starts with singles action at 8 a.m. and pits the No. 5 Storm boys, who won the 1-5A team title, vs. the 12 seed Rams.
On the girls’ side of the bracket, No. 3 Rio Rancho has a bye into the quarterfinals; No. 10 Cleveland faces No. 7 Alamogordo. The girls tournament starts at 11 a.m. with singles play.
