The Santa Rosa Junior College women’s and men’s tennis teams outmatched Folsom Lake College last Friday, bringing both of their records to an even 1-1 in the Big 8 Conference.

The men’s team won 8-1 and the women’s won 5-4.

For junior college tennis scoring, the teams play three doubles matches and six singles matches. Each match is worth one point towards the team score, with five points rendering a victory. The athletes can play both doubles and singles.

Caleb Murray and Moses Kuzu won their match in the second doubles spot 8-1 with strong net-play and superior serving.

“We gel well together,” Murray said. “We are aggressive at net, we try to attack a lot.”

 The men’s only loss was at the no. 1 singles spot.

SRJC’s Kevin To, who is battling a hamstring and quad injury, won the first set but lost the second set 1-6. An 11-9 tiebreaker decided the match. “I felt like I could have played a whole lot better but my head was just not in the game,” said To.

At the number one women’s singles, Angel Tran won her match 6-4, 6-2.

“The first set I felt like I played really bad,” said Tran. “I pulled it together the second set.”

The women’s team won two out of the three doubles matches, including an 8-5 victory in the second doubles position, which was an even match until the end when SRJC’s Laura Essayah and Erin Leveroni stopped playing safe and were more aggressive. 

“We’ve been working on doubles strategy every practice so their positioning and their shot selection is pretty darn good,” said head coach Jay Samonte about the women’s doubles.