Vaqueros beat Cypress 7-2, improve to 3-1

Gabrielle Goss and Kassandra Ortiz won singles and doubles points on Thursday, leading SBCC to a 7-2 women's tennis triumph at Cypress.

Goss, a freshman from Santa Barbara High, rallied to beat Shamine Singh at No. 4 singles, 4-6, 6-2, (10-7 tiebreaker) and teamed with Madison Ortiz to take the No. 3 doubles set 8-2. The Vaqueros improved to 3-1 and the Chargers fell to 1-2. Ortiz is a freshman from Orcutt Adademy.

Tyler Bunderson also overcame a first-set loss to win the No. 2 singles, 6-7 (2), 7-5, (10-2). The Vaqueros won five of six singles matches and two of three in doubles.

"We did a good job of closing out sets and winning tiebreakers," said coach Randy Moharram. "Tyler was down 5-2 in the first set. She kept her cool and took it to a tiebreaker, then carried that momentum into the 2nd set win and the 10-point tiebreaker."

The Vaqueros open WSC play on Tuesday when they host Santa Monica at 2 p.m.

Doubles
1. Dao/Laubie, Cypress, def. Seeds/Lesly Zapata De Lira 8-4
2. Adelman/K. Ortiz, SBCC, def. Jenkins/Singh 8-4
3. Goss/Madison Ortiz, SBCC, def. Nguyen/Tith 8-2

Singles
1. Maddie Seeds, SBCC, def. Diana Dao 6-4, 6-3
2. Tyler Bunderson, SBCC, def. Kalie Laubie 6-7 (2), 7-5, (10-2 tiebreaker)
3. Brittni Jenkins, Cypress, def. Julianna Adelman 6-2, 6-4
4. Gabrielle Goss, SBCC, def. Shamine Singh 4-6, 6-2, (10-7)
5. Kassandra Ortiz, SBCC, def. Vi Nguyen 6-1, 6-0
6. Savannah Bickle, SBCC, def. Mallika Tith 6-0, 6-1