San Marino Boys Win Another Tennis Title

San Marino’s boys’ tennis team won its third consecutive Southern Section title and ran its winning streak to 62 matches Wednesday with a 12-6 victory over Brentwood in the Division IV final.

Senior Andrew Park, the Southern Section singles champion who will play next year at USC, clinched the match with a 6-0 golden set, winning all 24 points in the set.

San Marino’s John Paul Furttero won all three of his sets, 6-0. Zoran Korack also won three sets as Titan singles players lost only nine games.

San Marino (24-0) won the Division II title in 1996 and the Division IV championship in 1997.

Brentwood finished 20-1.

In the Division I final, Palos Verdes Peninsula’s Tim Marsh lost his first two sets and trailed in his final set against Christian Jensen, but he rallied for victory and the Panthers pulled out their first boys’ tennis title with a 9-9 (84-73 in games) victory over Corona del Mar at the Balboa Bay Racquet Club in Newport Beach.

Marsh and Peninsula’s other singles players, Goh Futagaki and Roy Choi, had not won a set, but the Panthers’ doubles teams gave Marsh a chance to pull out the match by winning eight sets.

Peninsula finished 23-1, Corona del Mar 21-2.

Beverly Hills, which had lost in the semifinals each of the past three years, defeated Westlake in the Division II final, 10-8, at Thousand Oaks Racquet Club. Jose Lieberman won all three of his sets at No. 1 singles for the second-seeded Normans (21-2).

The Beverly Hills No. 3 doubles team of Jeff Wang and Raymond Hekmat won all three of its sets by 6-1 scores.

Harvard-Westlake cruised past San Luis Obispo, 14-4, at Braemar Country Club for its second consecutive Division III title at Braemar Country Club.

Fueled by strong doubles play, top-seeded Harvard-Westlake (20-4) jumped to a 4-2 lead after the first round and 9-3 after the second.

The No. 1 doubles team of Brian Bezonsky and Brent Iloulian clinched the victory for the Wolverines with a 6-1 victory over No. 2 Scott Bunker and Joe Diehl.

San Luis Obispo finished 21-2.