{"id":2761,"date":"2025-03-26T14:48:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T14:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=2761"},"modified":"2025-03-26T14:48:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T14:48:00","slug":"mhs-tennis-beats-kelseyville-4-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=2761","title":{"rendered":"MHS tennis beats Kelseyville 4-1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Mustangs sweep singles play, improve to 3-0 in CMC North standings<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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KELSEYVILLE >> Defending Coastal Mountain Conference North champion Middletown swept the singles portion of its 4-1 victory over the Kelseyville Knights on Tuesday afternoon at the Gard Street courts in Kelseyville.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will Hoskins handed Kelseyville\u2019s Maddy Borghesani her first loss of the season, 6-2, 6-3, in first singles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCredit to Will for playing a great match,\u201d Kelseyville head coach Andy Dobusch said. \u201cMaddy was serving well, which usually carries her through a match. Will is a quick player that gets everything back, which forces unforced errors.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harrison Brown needed three sets to hand Kelseyville\u2019s Ryan Taylor his first loss of the season, 6-3, 3-6, 7-5, in second singles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis was the match of the day,\u201d Dobusch said. \u201cThese two battled it out for almost two hours. Harrison\u2019s feet blistered and Ryan could barely move by the end of the third set. They had long rallies and were playing cat and mouse with each other, drawing one another to the net.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Added Dobusch, \u201cIt was fun to watch. Harrison had a stronger game at the net, which ultimately won him the match.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anthony Lopez completed the singles sweep for Middletown by rallying for a 5-7, 6-1, 6-1 win in third singles over Jesse Barnett, who was playing his first singles match of the season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think its great that Jesse played singles for us,\u201d Dobusch said. \u201cRiley Lopez is our third singles player and was out of the country, so we needed someone to step up. People don\u2019t realize how stressful it is to play singles. It\u2019s just you out there. Everything is magnified and it\u2019s a lot of pressure. Nerves make it hard to accelerate through your swing, which is needed to bring the ball down into the court. Jesse\u2019s got the ability, it\u2019s just hard to do it consistently with confidence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Middletown\u2019s Josiah Pike and Leland Pike won 6-1, 6-4 in first doubles, handing the Kelseyville team of Olivia Hommer and Olivia Raabe its first loss of the season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe girls played well, they were just overpowered,\u201d Dobusch said. \u201cLeland was impressive at the net. We had a hard time with their aggressiveness and athleticism.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kelseyville avoided the sweep behind Bella Patti\u2019s and Riley Hanson\u2019s 7-6 (7-5), 6-0 win over Nalu Johnson and Luis Pamatz in second doubles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is the first time playing together for both teams,\u201d Dobusch said. \u201cBella and Riley got off to a fast start and were up 5-2 in the first set. The set went to a tiebreak at 6-6, which Kelseyville won 7-5. After almost losing the set and the momentum, the girls had a talk, got refocused and closed out the second set without dropping a game. They\u2019re both quick and communicated really well.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though it didn\u2019t count in the final team score, Kelseyville\u2019s Olivia Bushey beat Arianna Sypnicki 6-4, 2-6, 6-4 in exhibition singles play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOlivia is getting stronger and more consistent with each match she plays,\u201d Dobusch said. \u201cIt was a great experience for both girls.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Middletown is 3-0 in conference play and 4-0 overall. Kelseyville is 2-1 in conference play and 2-1 overall.0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both teams are back in action Friday at 4 p.m. Kelseyville visits Cloverdale while Middletown hosts Fort Bragg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mustangs sweep singles play, improve to 3-0 in CMC North standings Lake County Sports on Facebook KELSEYVILLE >> Defending Coastal Mountain Conference North champion Middletown swept the singles portion of its 4-1 victory over the Kelseyville Knights on Tuesday afternoon at the Gard Street courts in Kelseyville. Will Hoskins handed Kelseyville\u2019s Maddy Borghesani her first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,17,19,90],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2761"}],"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=2761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2762,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2761\/revisions\/2762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}