Tiger tennis rebounds after Monday loss to easily defeat Mt. Whitney

On Wednesday Mike Sinaga rebounded from his Monday loss to beat Mt. Whitney’s Abraham Bonilla 6-1, 6-4, and then Drew Gobby put together a 6-0, 6-1 effort to beat the Pioneers’ Brendon Bucey.

In other action Arnold Cabuhat suffered the only loss, this to Seth Herrera 6-7, (5-7), 6-4 (5-10) in a razor thin match. Jed Santos beat Jonathan Notarnicola 6-2, 6-2 and Adrian Zamora defeated Connor George 3-6, 6-4, (10-8) in a tie breaker.

Spencer Denney beat Lalo Bonilla 6-4, 6-2 to continue the winning streak and in doubles action, Sinaga and Cabuhat won 8-5, while Gobby and Zamora easily won 8-2.

Finally, Mitchell Foote and Cha Cho Martinez, playing well together once again, won 8-3.

Lemoore's first loss

All winning streaks end eventually, as is the case with the Lemoore boys’ tennis squad, which after a 6-0 start, dropped its first match of the season to Redwood High School. The Tigers are 6-1 overall and 1-1 in the West Yosemite League.

In Monday’s match at Lemoore High School, No. 1 singles’ player Mike Sinaga dropped a 4-6, 5-7 match to Adam Miller while No. 2 ace Drew Gobby lost 0-6, 0-6 to Redwood’s Mark Garcia.

Drew Gobby is shown here in action against Redwood's Mark Garcia.

In other action, Arnold Cabuhat lost to Redwood’s Matt Erba 2-6, 0-6 and Jed Santos dropped a 1-6, 1-6 decision to Michael Watkins.

Adrian Zamora lost in a super tie-breaker to Angel Ramirez 4-6, 7-5, but the match of the day came from Lemoore’s Spencer Denney in his epic match against Redwood’s Colton Hansen, in the NO. 6 singles’ match. Denney lost the match to Hansen 5-7, 7-6 (7-5) and (13-17).

Lemoore’s doubles team of Cha Cho Martinez and Mitchell Foote also lost in a tie-breaker 8-9 (5-7). Sinaga and Cabuhat lost 6-8 in No. 1 doubles’ action and Gobby and Zamora dropped a 4-8 match.

The Tigers face Mt. Whitney Wednesday in Visalia.

Arnold Cabuhat lost to Matt Erba in WYL action Monday in Lemoore.