Poly Coach Defaults His Doubles Team for Bad Behavior

A point away from victory, the No. 1 doubles team on the Poly High boys’ tennis team was defaulted for unsportsmanlike conduct by Parrot Coach Jason Klinger on Thursday.

Sherman Oaks CES won the Valley Pac-8 Conference match, 4-3, at Poly.

Quan Tran and Patrick Unataran led 5-2 in games in the third set and 40-30 against Angel Gatehalian and Paul Pantapaiangkorr when Tran became frustrated and slammed his racket to the ground and broke it, according to Klinger.

“I didn’t know what the score was,” Klinger said. “Had I known the score, I might have hesitated but I still would have defaulted them.”

The Parrots are 1-4 overall and 0-2 in conference play.

Granada Hills 7, Birmingham 0--The No. 1 doubles team of Deepu Murthy and Matt Weiss won, 6-0, 6-0, for Granada Hills (5-0, 2-0) in a Valley Pac-8 Conference home match.

Taft 6, Cleveland 1--The Toreadors (5-0) swept the singles matches behind straight-set victories by brothers Farhad and Farshid Hajimirzaee, Phillip Kaschel and Eugene Grinblat in a Northwest Valley Conference opener at Taft.

Westlake 16, Camarillo 2--The Warriors, ranked No. 2 in Southern Section Division III, rested three of their top players but still won in a Marmonte League match at the North Ranch Tennis Club.

Burroughs 17, Blair 1--Andrew McClure defeated Gus Bolpies, 7-5, in a match between No. 1 singles players in a nonleague match at Burroughs. McClure won all three of his matches.

Chaminade 14, Crespi 4--Cory Mendelsohn won three singles sets and Phil Teeple and Ryan Gregory won three doubles sets for the Eagles (5-3, 3-0) in a Mission League match at Braemar Country Club.

BOYS’ TRACK

Notre Dame 111, Alemany 16--Defending state 100-meter champion Justin Fargas was sidelined with the flu for what was supposed to be the second of several races against Mission League sprint rival Miguel Fletcher.

Fletcher won the 200 meters in 22.0 seconds and Notre Dame’s Rod Arzu finished in 22.2. Both runners clocked 49.8 in the 400, with Fletcher outleaning Arzu at the finish for the victory.

GIRLS’ TRACK

Rio Mesa 89, Dos Pueblos 38--Freshman Porchea Carroll of host Rio Mesa (4-0) won the 100 in 12.1 seconds, the 200 in 25.4 and the long jump at 18 feet and ran the second leg on the winning 400 relay team that clocked 50.5 in the Channel League opener.

San Marcos 110, Ventura 73, Hueneme 3--Angela Foster of Ventura set personal bests of 39 feet 4 inches in the shotput and 119-0 in the discus to win those events in the Channel League opener at Ventura.

BOYS’ VOLLEYBALL

Kennedy d. Birmingham, 15-2, 15-0, 15-3--Danny Brookshire and Jason Abel each had 13 kills and Andrew Choy had 27 assists for the Golden Cougars (4-1, 1-1) in a Northwest Valley Conference victory at Kennedy.

Granada Hills d. Cleveland, 15-1, 15-0, 15-7--Mike Aleman had 14 kills and Chris Martin added 11 kills for the Highlanders (5-0, 2-0) in a Northwest Valley Conference victory.

Taft d. Chatsworth, 15-11, 15-9, 15-3--Joe Nargi had 18 kills and five aces for host Taft (4-0, 2-0) in a Northwest Valley Conference match.

GIRLS’ SWIMMING

Harvard-Westlake 134, Marymount 35--Harvard-Westlake’s Cami Kliner and Stephanie Dashiell each qualified for the Southern Section Division III preliminaries in two individual events and two relays in a nonleague meet at Harvard-Westlake.

GOLF

Alemany 186, Notre Dame 197--Brian Woolf shot a three-under-par 32 for Alemany (3-1, 3-0) in a Mission League match at Porter Valley Country Club.