Boys tennis: Snyder, Ball advance

HUNTINGTON BEACH - Corona del Mar High junior Garrett Snyder and

freshman doubles partner Carsten Ball breezed into today’s semifinals

with a pair of victories Friday in the CIF Southern Section individual

boys tennis tournament at the SeaCliff Tennis Club.

Snyder and Ball, the No. 1 seed, dispatched Chris Cobo and Rick

Nordeen from Walnut, 6-0, 6-1, in the Round of 16. The Sea King duo then

polished off Jordan Villwock and Blake Meister from Dana Hills, 6-3, 6-2,

in the quarterfinals.

Snyder, who won the CIF doubles crown last spring with then-senior

Brian Morton, will attempt to repeat today, beginning with an 11:30 a.m.

semifinal, also at SeaCliff, against the unseeded Harvard-Westlake duo of

Don Rubenstein and James Thayer. Rubenstein and Thayer defeated Chase

Muller and Kerry Wheeler of Santa Barbara, 4-6, 6-3, 6-1, in their

quarterfinal Friday.

The final is scheduled to follow the semifinal today.