The bad news for Poly girls tennis coach Michael Guice was his three singles players won just 2 of 9 matches versus Temple City Wednesday at the Cal Tech tennis courts.<\/p>\n
But the good news was the Panthers\u2019 doubles team won 7 of its 9 matches, which led to a 9-9 tie.<\/p>\n
As the rules go, you take the number of games each team wins in its 18 total set scores, and Temple City was awarded the win with an advantage of 76-69 in the tiebreaker.<\/p>\n
Tara Adarker and Elisabeth Bogaard, Poly\u2019s No. 1 doubles team, swept Temple City with scores of 6-2, 6-0 and 6-4.<\/p>\n
The No. 2 tandem of Caitlin Wu and Yumi Balthazar went 2-1, as did No. 3 Saya Desai and her partner, Anais Singh-Gee.<\/p>\n
Shalini Haupt dropped her first match to Temple City No. 1 singles player Katherine Wa, 2-6, but Haupt won her final two matches, 6-4, and 6-1.<\/p>\n
Poly\u2019s No. 2 and No. 3 singles\u2019 players went a combined 0-6, but it is just the second team match of the year for the young Panthers.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe started out great, but singles was where we fell short,\u201d Guice said. \u201cFor the next match, we are seriously considering a change in our singles lineup.\u201d<\/p>\n
Poly will travel to Westridge next Tuesday at 3:15 as the Panthers and Rebels square off.<\/p>\n