Live Oak tennis wins first playoff match
Colusa volleyball defeats Willows
Live Oak took care of its first postseason opponent Tuesday with an 8-1 win over Las Plumas in the opening round of the Northern Section girls tennis playoffs.
The No. 3 Lions (12-2) continue section playoffs Wednesday, Oct. 30 in Redding at second-seeded University Prep.
Live Oak switches gears Thursday for the Butte View League tournament beginning at 9 a.m. at Yuba City Racquet Club.
The tournament continues on Friday.
Against LP, the section’s six-seed, Live Oak swept its four singles matches (Lizzy Allen 6-2, 6-0, Jessie Patrick 6-3, 6-2, Erica Valadez 6-1, 6-3, Nataly Ayala 6-4, 6-2, Erika Angel 6-1, 6-2).
In doubles, Allen and Valadez won its best-two-of-three match, 7-6, 6-1; Patrick and Ayala 6-1, 4-6, 6-1; and Roxy Lopez and Angel 6-0, 6-3. River Valley 6, Antelope 3 The Falcons girls tennis team closed out their season on Tuesday with a league win over Antelope, 6-3.
Singles winners for River Valley were Hanna Abe (61, 6-2), Janeli Vargas (6-0, 6-2), Lydia Soto (6-2, 6-0), Relina Xiong (6-1, 6-0) and Susan Yang (6-4, 6-0).
franchise-record 326 batters. With free agency awaiting, the amount of money Cole will make boggles the mind.
Without anything resembling his best arsenal against the New York Yankees, he still threw seven scoreless innings in the Bronx. Cole bordered on unbeatable.
Until Tuesday.
Handed a two-run lead after the first inning, Cole yielded five runs and eight hits. Juan Soto, Washington’s wunderkind 20-year-old, torched him for a prodigious solo home run and two-run double. Houston lost 5-4 in Game 1 of the World Series at Minute Maid Park, combusted by Cole’s outing and an inability to seize advantage of scoring opportunities.