The Bakersfield College women’s tennis team lost two of its last three matches lost to Santa Monica and Ventura College.
The team’s one win came against Allan Hancock, where the Renegades won 9-0.
BC coach Gene Lundquist spoke about the match.
“We did really well, our team maintained its intensity and we beat them 9-0.
Allan Hancock is having a really down year. The fact is they just haven’t had as much playing experience as we have,” he said.
“And so I want to give them some credit but we pretty well handled them especially in singles.
In doubles they gave us a pretty good match in our number two doubles, but we won that 8-5.”
Though the Renegades haven’t played up to what their expectations were, Lundquist did say they had one surprise this season.
“One of our players who has really risen to the occasion here late in the season is Stevie Lincoln.
She beat her opponent at Allan Hancock 6-0, and again 6-0. She didn’t even get a game against Stevie.”
An example of this improvement came against undefeated Santa Monica.
“Her opponent, Alex Thomas, beat Stevie pretty handily in the first round.
“But in the second round, Stevie showed this improvement and she notched a win,” Lundquist said.
Lincoln was not at practice to comment.
Lundquist addressed the poor season.
“Three of our Western State Conference opponents have come up with superior teams. They’ve really got some outstanding players.”
We’re in one of the strongest conferences in the state and we have our work cut out for us,” he said.
The Renegades are looking to the upcoming postseason where they will hope to make regionals, which is an individual competition rather than a team.