San Marino Earns Another Tennis Title

San Marino won its fourth consecutive Southern Section Division IV boys’ tennis championship Wednesday with a 16-2 victory over San Luis Obispo at the Avila Bay Club in San Luis Obispo.

Zoran Korac, Dustin Tsu and Derek Tsu each won three singles matches for San Marino (23-2).

San Luis Obispo (21-1-1) lost in a final for the second consecutive year. The Tigers were defeated by North Hollywood Harvard-Westlake in the Division III championship match in 1998.

In the Division I final, Corona del Mar (22-1) won its first title since 1983 by defeating Irvine Woodbridge, 12-6, at Palisades Tennis Club in Newport Beach.

It was Corona del Mar’s third victory this season over Woodbridge (18-5), which won titles in 1996 and ’97.

Parker Collins, Corona del Mar’s top player, had a back injury that forced him to play doubles with Peter Kulmaticki. The pair won two of three sets.

Harvard-Westlake (22-2) defeated Irvine University, 10-8, and won its third consecutive Division II title.

Trailing, 6-3, midway through the second round, the Warriors came from behind in two singles’ matches and won a tiebreaker in the other, to close the gap to 7-5 and spark a comeback that led the Warriors to their victory.

Ahead on games, second-seeded University (19-4), which won six of nine doubles sets, needed only one of the final three singles sets to earn the victory, but the top-seeded Warriors swept, to escape with the victory.

The Division III championship match between Westlake and Beverly Hills was suspended because of rain at the Westlake Tennis and Swim Club.

Weather permitting, the match is scheduled to be continued or replayed in its entirety today at 2 p.m. at the same location.

Sophomore Sean McKean won all three of his sets and Brentwood (22-0) won eight of nine doubles sets en route to a 12-6 victory over Pasadena Poly (18-5) in the Division V final at Balboa Park.