Tennis: Ball-Snyder win twice at Ojai

OJAI - As expected, Corona del Mar High senior Cameron Ball and

junior Garrett Snyder, seeded No. 1 in the boys CIF Interscholastic

doubles at the 102nd Ojai Valley Tennis Tournament, won their opening two

matches Thursday to highlight area players in the first day of the

largest amateur tennis tournament in the U.S.

Ball and Snyder defeated San Clemente’s Mike Dussinger and John

Sangveraphunsiri in the first round, 6-0, 6-1, then beat Raio Mitsuno and

Soheil Safii of Palisades, 6-0, 6-0, in the Round of 32.

CdM freshman Carsten Ball, playing in the boys CIF Interscholastic

singles (or 18s), lost in the opening round to Hoover’s Dylan Kim, 6-2,

6-1.

In the girls 18s singles, second-seeded and Pepperdine-bound Natalie

Braverman (Newport Beach) had a first-round bye, then defeated Casey

Knuteson (Huntington Beach), 6-0, 6-2, in the Round of 32.

Knuteson beat CdM’s Taylynn Snyder, 6-2, 7-5, in the first round,

while 2000 CIF Southern Section individual champion and Purdue-bound

Brittany Reitz (Newport Coast) had a first-round bye and defaulted in the

second round.

Also in the girls 18s, Krista McIntosh (Costa Mesa) beat Marissa

Simmons of Ojai, 6-3, 6-1, then lost to Kady Pooler of Laguna Niguel,

6-1, 6-3.

Newport Beach’s Brittany Minna won her first-round match, 6-0, 6-1,

over Long Beach’s Melissa Selmanson, then lost to Laguna Beach’s Ashley

Maddocks, 6-1, 6-1.

Newport Beach’s Leslie Damion lost to Colby Comstock of Peninsula,

6-1, 6-4, and Costa Mesa’s Kelly Nelson lost to Santa Barbara’s Courtney

Armstrong, 2-6, 6-4, 6-3.

In the boys 16s singles, which features seven area products, two

locals won, another advanced by default (Newport Coast’s Spencer Reitz),

two had first-round byes (Kaes Van’t Hof and Matthew Chou), one lost and

one withdrew (Tyler Deck).

CdM’s Nicholas Gingold knocked off Martin Nunga of Encino, 6-4, 6-1,

in the first round of the 64-player draw, while Newport Beach’s Charlie

Farmer beat Gavin Garrison of Ojai, 6-1, 6-2. CdM’s Wesley Miller lost to

Jordan Colman of Palm Desert, 6-3, 6-4.

In the girls 14s, Jill Damion (Newport Beach) defeated Laura Moses of

Highland, 6-2, 6-1, in the first round of the 32-player draw.

In the men’s community college division, Orange Coast College’s Robert

Chu defeated Palomar’s Jeremy Owens, 6-1, 6-3, to advance to today’s

Round of 32, while OCC’s Zoran Korac beat Kory Rudow of Victor Valley,

6-1, 6-1.

In women’s community college play, OCC’s Stephanie Chang and Veronica

Sommer advanced in doubles with a 6-1, 6-4 second-round victory over

Trisha Gaor and Tina Wu of Mission College.

Chang got past the second round in singles with a 6-2, 6-0 win, while

Sommer was upset in the second round of singles by Carri Barnes of

DeAnza, 6-1, 6-0.

A second-round victim in doubles was Coast’s duo of Kristin Lawson and

Ashley Nelson, who fell to Genie Schnakenberg and Lara Yturriaga of

Cerritos, 6-4, 6-3, after posting a first-round victory over American

River’s Stephanie Alcala and Pamela Coledman, 6-3, 6-1.

In the men’s Big West Conference championships, second-seeded UC

Irvine advanced to today’s semifinals against third-seeded Pacific. UCI

beat UC Riverside, 7-0, without Sean O’Connor playing singles.

In the men’s open doubles, top-seeded Carsten Hoffman (Newport Beach)

and Arthur Hernandez (Huntington Beach) had a bye in the opening round.

In the women’s open singles, Estancia High product Dina Birch-McBride

(circa 1990), seeded No. 1 and the defending champion, will play

Alejandra Ordonez of Mission Hills today in the quarterfinals at 11 a.m.

Birch-McBride, a Woodland Hills resident, had a bye Thursday. Ordonez

advanced when Carpinteria’s Stephanie Baker Stone withdrew because of

injury.