{"id":2579,"date":"2025-03-07T16:31:38","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T16:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=2579"},"modified":"2025-03-07T16:31:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T16:31:38","slug":"mtown-tennis-opens-with-two-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=2579","title":{"rendered":"M&#8217;town tennis opens with two wins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Mustangs knock off Mendocino on the road, Willits at home<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lake County Sports on Facebook<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MENDOCINO &gt;&gt; Middletown High School\u2019s tennis team beat Mendocino 3-1 on Thursday in Mendocino, its second win of the week after defeating Willits 4-1 Tuesday in the Mustangs\u2019 season opener at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Against Mendocino, Will Hoskins won 6-1, 6-4 in first singles while Harrison Brown posted a 7-5, 6-1 victory in second doubles. The third singles match between Middletown\u2019s Anthony Lopez and Mendocino\u2019s was tied one set apiece, Lopez taking the second set 6-4 after losing the first set 6-3. The match will be completed when Mendocino visits Middletown on March 18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leland Pike and Jasiah Pike won 7-5, 6-4 in first doubles. Mendocino\u2019s lone win came in second doubles where Leah Vodopals and Eli Griffen beat Olivia Ruiz and Arianna Sypnicki 6-0, 6-1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWill has improved in the offseason and has solidified his spot as our No. 1 singles, but Harrison is also improved and is competitive,\u201d Middletown head coach Tony Hart said. \u201cThese two will help each other improve all year.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Added Hart of his 2025 squad, \u201cAnthony should settle in at No. 3 singles after taking last year off to play baseball. The Pike brothers will only get better as this was Jasiah\u2019s second day playing tennis. No foreign exchange students this year, but some homegrown athletes excited to compete.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Middletown\u2019s season-opening win against Willits, Hoskins won 6-0, 6-1, Lopez prevailed 6-1, 6-0 in No. 2 singles, and Leland Pike won 6-1, 6-0 in No. 3 singles. Ruiz and Sypnicki teamed up for a 6-3, 6-1 win in No. 1 doubles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Willits won by forfeit in No. 2 doubles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGood warmup, but we were missing three basketball players (competing in the NorCal playoffs),\u201d Hart said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Middletown returns to action Tuesday in Ukiah at 4 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mustangs knock off Mendocino on the road, Willits at home Lake County Sports on Facebook MENDOCINO &gt;&gt; Middletown High School\u2019s tennis team beat Mendocino 3-1 on Thursday in Mendocino, its second win of the week after defeating Willits 4-1 Tuesday in the Mustangs\u2019 season opener at home. Against Mendocino, Will Hoskins won 6-1, 6-4 in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,19,90],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2579"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2580,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2579\/revisions\/2580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}