CdM continues to hold court

The Corona del Mar High boys tennis team, unmatched as the 2003

campaign moves forward, gobbled up another opponent Monday as the

host Sea Kings defeated Laguna Beach, 18-0, in a Pacific Coast League

make-up match.

Coach Tim Mang’s Sea Kings, ranked No. 1 in Orange County and CIF

Southern Section Division I, improved to 16-0, 4-0 in league. Laguna

Beach fell to 1-3 in league.

“I plan on being in the (CIF) Finals,” Mang said. “We’ve beaten

everybody [in our division] except for one team and that’s Harvard

Westlake, and (the Wolverines) finished fifth in our tournament [the

CdM National High School Invitational last month].”

CdM senior and University of Texas-bound Garrett Snyder, who

normally plays No. 1 singles for the Sea Kings, played doubles at No.

1 with sophomore Sean Pham, while sophomore Spencer Reitz, senior

Bryan Warsaw and senior Issei Saida handled the singles duties for

Corona del Mar.

“My top guys have always been very good,” Mang said. “They always

stack on us in the doubles, so my doubles are bound to get better.

They’re usually playing the top singles players in the doubles. Other

teams throw their top singles players in the top doubles teams. I’m

sure that will be the case any time we play a tight team ... Our

closest match was 12-6, and that was against Peninsula, one of the

top teams, and they put their No. 1 player [Pat Dobson] in doubles

against us.”

With sophomore sensation Carsten Ball sitting this dance out, the

Sea Kings swept across the board, including at No. 2 doubles with

junior Brennan Roberts and freshman Robert Koury and at No. 3 with

sophomores Nicholas Gingold and Alex Nguyen.

“We’re still No. 1 in the state, according to our national

tournament, which had the top three teams in the state and we went

undefeated in our national invitational,” said Mang, whose team will

travel to Tesoro today at 3 p.m.