Boys tennis: CdM’s Morton and Snyder battle for runner-up finish

OJAI - Corona del Mar High’s Brian Morton and Garrett Snyder nearly

brought home a doubles championship and a boys tennis team title at the

Ojai Valley Tennis Tournament Saturday.

The Sea Kings’ duo easily defeated Torrey Pines’ Byron Cole and Eric

Riley, 6-1, 6-2, in the semifinals of Boys CIF Doubles, setting up a

dramatic finals matchup with Peninsula’s Tige Sullivan and Jeff Kazarian.

The finals match would also determine the Griggs Cup (Ojai tourney team

championship), as CdM and Peninsula were tied, 8-8.

Morton, a senior, and Snyder, a sophomore, lost, 6-3, 3-6, 2-6.

“We should’ve taken them in the second set,” Sea Kings Coach Tim Mang

said. “We had a chance to break them twice. We had them 40-love, but they

would come back and the momentum changed.”