{"id":3045,"date":"2025-04-19T16:53:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T16:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=3045"},"modified":"2025-04-19T16:53:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T16:53:38","slug":"mtown-tennis-secures-conference-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=3045","title":{"rendered":"M’town tennis secures conference title"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Mustangs one win away from perfect season after 4-1 victory over Kelseyville<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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HIDDEN VALLEY LAKE >> Middletown High School\u2019s tennis team clinched a second straight Coastal Mountain Conference North championship with a hard-fought 4-1 victory over the Kelseyville Knights on Friday afternoon at the Hidden Valley Lake courts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Middletown is 11-0 with one match remaining, an April 29 road trip to Cloverdale. Kelseyville (7-3) needed a victory to stay in the running for at least a share of the title, but the Mustangs proved too tough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The two best matches of the day took place in singles, with each team winning one. In a battle to the end, Middletown\u2019s Harrison Brown outlasted Ryan Taylor 6-7 (7-4), 7-6 (7-3), 6-2 in second singles while Kelseyville\u2019s Riley Lopez beat Anthony Lopez 2-6, 7-6 (8-6), 6-2 in third singles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt looked like Ryan was going to run away with the win when he had Harrison down 5-4 in the second (set) and up two match points, but Harrison battled back to make it 5-5, and then went up 6-5,\u201d Middletown head coach Tony Hart said. \u201cRyan came back to force a tiebreaker. Harrison won the tiebreaker and just had a little more in the tank to win the third set 6-2.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Added Hart, \u201cI thought both players played their hearts out and made some brilliant shots. Hats off to Ryan.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Likewise, Kelseyville\u2019s Lopez appeared to be on his way out in third singles before battling back for the victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRiley lost the first set and was down 6-5 in the second (set), but he managed to get it to a tiebreaker and turned it around to win 8-6,\u201d Hart said. \u201cRiley is the one who had a little more in the tank and won 6-2 in the third set for Kelseyville\u2019s only win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThree-set matches are fun to watch but are grueling for the players with lots of emotional highs and lows, and in singles you don\u2019t have a teammate to rely on. I felt bad for Anthony because he also played his heart out, but it was Riley\u2019s day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first singles match had considerably less drama as Middletown\u2019s Will Hoskins beat Maddy Borghesani 6-3, 6-2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Middletown also won both doubles matches in straight sets. Leland Pike and Jasiah Pike, undefeated on the season, beat Olivia Raabe and Olivia Bushey 6-1, 6-1 in first doubles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nalu Johnson and Luis Pamatz had a slow start in second doubles but came on strong to beat Grace Peterson and Brooklyn Young 6-4, 6-1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Middletown has next week off for spring break. Kelseyville hosts Cloverdale on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mustangs one win away from perfect season after 4-1 victory over Kelseyville Lake County Sports on Facebook HIDDEN VALLEY LAKE >> Middletown High School\u2019s tennis team clinched a second straight Coastal Mountain Conference North championship with a hard-fought 4-1 victory over the Kelseyville Knights on Friday afternoon at the Hidden Valley Lake courts. Middletown is […]<\/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\/3045"}],"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=3045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3046,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3045\/revisions\/3046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}