5 hours Ago By Kenny Cress [email protected]
St. Joseph's Kona Castillo erased six match points for Clovis Buchanan's Tatum Custer Tuesday. Custer broke through on match point No.
7 on Castillo's serve and clinched a 5-4 win over for No. 11 Buchanan over No. 6 St.
Joseph at the St. Joseph courts in the first round of the CIF Central Section Division 1 Playoffs. Caster won the No.
4 singles match 6-3, 6-3. Buchanan edged St. Joseph 5-4 in a scrimmage before the teams began their respective seasons.
Autumn Smith gave Buchanan a big boost Tuesday with a come-from-behind 2-6, 6-3 (10-3) win over Charlotte Dillon in the No. 5 singles match. With St.
Joseph's Mia Parker playing on an injured ankle, Buchanan with a three hour drive back home ahead and the Bears having clinched the match, the coaches agreed to call the No. 3 singles match with Parker leading Nora Callister 6-0, 2-1. The final score in the Central Section brackets was listed as Buchanan 5, St.
Joseph 4. With Custer and Autumn Smith winning at No. 1 doubles, and Aubrey Smittcamp and Brooke Brandt winning at No.
3, the Bears took a 2-1 lead into the singles portion of the match. Custer, at No. 4 singles, Smith, at No.
5, and Autumn Fowler, at No. 6, broke through and that was enough for the Bears. Parker and Karli Hunter gave the Knights their doubles point with an 8-2 win at No.
2. Alina Morales, at No. 1 singles, and Mikaleigh Dougherty, at No.
2, won in straight sets for the Knights in singles. Buchanan (15-7) will play at No. 3 Bakersfield Stockdale in the quarterfinals.
In the Central Section playoffs, the higher seed is the host team in each round. St. Joseph finished 11-5.
Division 2 Santa Ynez 9, Righetti 0 The No. 1 Pirates rolled past the No. 16 Warriors in the first round.
Santa Ynez singles players Keegan Withrow, Haley Townes, Kate Mazza, Natalie O'Shaghnessy, Danielle Hyland and Violet Quinney all won in straight sets, dropping 12 games between them. Hyland, at No. 5, and Quinney, at No.
6, did not lose a game. O'Shaughnessy won 6-0, 6-1 at No. 4.
Withrow and Townes teamed for a win at No. 1 doubles, and Mazza and O'Shaughnessy won at No. 2.
Claire Tipich and Ainlsey Haws took the No. 3 doubles match for the Pirates. Santa Ynez will host No.
8 Fresno Justin Garza Thursday in the quarterfinals. A start time had not been set at press time. In other Division 2 action involving Central Coast Athletic Association (CCAA) teams, No.
6 Atascadero defeated No. 11 Bakersfield Christian 8-1, and No. 12 Templeton lost at No.
5 Bakersfield Garces by the same score. Division 3 Lompoc 9, Paso Robles 0 The two-time defending Division 3 champions lost all of two singles games, and the No. 1 Braves blanked the No.
16 Bearcats at Lompoc in the first round. Rianna Stouppe, Mia Jansen, Gabi Arias and Emma White did not lose a game in singles or doubles. Stouppe and Jansen won 6-0, 6-0 at No.
1 doubles. Arias and Whtie did the same at No. 2.
Stouppe, Arias, Jansen and White all got through their singles matches, 6-0, 6-0. Lola Soukup did the same at No. 6 singles.
Ava Velasco won 6-1, 6-1 at No. 5 singles for the Braves. Azra Perez and Gianna Paredes won in three sets at No.
3 doubles. Lompoc will host No. 9 Lemoore Thursday at 2 p.
m. in the quarterfinals. No.
14 Morro Bay lost to No. 3 Kerman 7-2. Division 4 Shafter 5, Pioneer Valley 4 The Ocean League champions gave it a run, but the No.
3 Generals edged the No. 14 Panthers in the first round. Pioneer Valley finished 10-6.
The Panthers went 10-0 in the Ocean League and won the first league championship of any kind, outright or shared, in team history. Division 5 Orcutt Academy 5, Bakersfield Mira Monte 1 The No. 2 Spartans (8-7) breezed past the No.
15 seed in the first round at Hancock College. With Orcutt Academy having clinched the match, three singles matches were halted in progress. Ocean League singles champion Emma Fields went unbeaten in regular season league singles and doubles play, and the Orcutt junior won her No.
1 singles match 6-0, 6-0 Tuesday after teaming with Natalie Arguijo for an 8-4 win at No. 2 doubles. Eva Herrera and Veronica Amador won at No.
1 doubles, and Ashley Roepka and Emily Rivera won at No. 3 to give Orcutt a doubles sweep going into the singles portion of the match. Fields and Veronica Amador, who won at No.
3, gave the Spartans their singles points. Orcutt will host No. 7 Nipomo Thursday at 2 p.
m. at Hancock in the quarterfinals. No.
7 Nipomo 7, No. 10 Taft 2 The Titans advanced with a first-round win over the Cougars. Girls volleyball playoffs Arroyo Grande in Division 2, and Nipomo and Atascadero in Division 3 were the only Central Coast Athletic Association (CCAA) teams that advanced out of the first round Tuesday.
No. 6 Arroyo Grande swept No. 11 Visalia El Diamante 3-0 in Division 2.
No. 8 Nipomo swept No. 9 Tehachapi 3-0, and No.
7 Atascadero edged No. 10 Templeton 3-2 in Division 3. No.
1 Visalia Central Valley Christian swept No. 16 Paso Robles 3-0 in a Division 2 first round match. No.
8 Bakersfield Frontier beat No. 9 Santa Ynez 3-1, and No. 4 Bakersfield Garces edged No.
14 Mission Prep 3-2. In Division 3, No. 4 Reedley defeated No.
13 St. Joseph 3-1. In Division 5, No.
9 Lebec Frazier Mountain beat No. 8 Morro Bay 3-1, No. 5 Coalinga swept No.
12 Lompoc 3-0 and No. 4 Delano Kennedy edged No. 13 Cabrillo 3-2.
Nipomo will play at top seed Porterville in a Division 3 quarterfinal Thursday at 6 p.m. Defending champion San Luis Obispo drew the No.
2 seed in the eight-team Division 1 playoffs, which start Thursday..
