{"id":6297,"date":"2026-04-15T18:33:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T18:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=6297"},"modified":"2026-04-15T18:33:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T18:33:00","slug":"khs-tennis-drops-4-1-decision-at-mendocino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=6297","title":{"rendered":"KHS tennis drops 4-1 decision at Mendocino"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Knights avoid sweep with three-set victory in second doubles<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lake County Sports on Facebook<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MENDOCINO &gt;&gt; Mendocino High School remains undefeated atop the Coastal Mountain Conference North tennis standings after beating Kelseyville 4-1 on Tuesday afternoon in Mendocino.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kelseyville\u2019s lone win came in second doubles where Grace Peterson and Jesse Barnett won a three-set thriller against Summer Nemieth and Eli Griffin, 3-6, 7-6 (7-5), 11-9. A tiebreaker to 11 points was played in lieu of a third set because of time considerations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cComing back to win in three sets is great,\u201d Kelseyville head coach Andy Dobusch said. \u201cSaving five match points to do it is even better. Grace and Jesse played smart, consistent tennis in that third set.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Getting lucky never hurts, either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDown 9-5, three of the last six points were balls hit out by Mendocino deep on the baseline, missing by inches,\u201d Dobusch said. \u201cIf any of those go in, we lose the match. They did and we won, barely.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In singles action, Maddy Borghesani fell 6-0, 6-2 to Max Oatney in first singles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDespite the score, it was a good match for Maddy,\u201d Dobusch said. \u201cMax will be one of the top players in the boys division at our Coastal&nbsp; Mountain Conference Championships, so he\u2019s pretty tough competition and great practice for Maddy (who will compete for the girls title at the CMC Championships).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Riley Lopez dropped a 6-0, 6-1 decision to Enzo Abuliak in second singles while Olivia Bushey fell 6-0, 6-2 to Vale Guthier in third singles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In first doubles, Olivia Raabe and Riley Hanson lost 6-0, 7-5 to Gabi Mcelroy and Leo Hinkle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe girls were a little woozy from the car ride and got off to a slow start before coming back in the second set,\u201d Dobusch said. \u201cIf just a couple points go our way, we win the second set and take it to a tiebreaker, where it\u2019s anyone\u2019s match.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kelseyville, now 5-3 in conference action, hosts Middletown on Friday at 4 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Knights avoid sweep with three-set victory in second doubles Lake County Sports on Facebook MENDOCINO &gt;&gt; Mendocino High School remains undefeated atop the Coastal Mountain Conference North tennis standings after beating Kelseyville 4-1 on Tuesday afternoon in Mendocino. Kelseyville\u2019s lone win came in second doubles where Grace Peterson and Jesse Barnett won a three-set thriller [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,17,90],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6297"}],"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=6297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6298,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6297\/revisions\/6298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}