“We are in second place and we’ve beaten Burbank and Glendale already,” said Crescenta Valley Coach Tom Gossard, who has led the Falcons to nine league championships since 1995. “We were just overmatched by Arcadia.”
The Falcons were especially overmatched in singles. Junior Erin LeVoir, the reigning league singles champion and All-Area Singles Player of the Year, won the lone singles set for the Falcons. She recorded a 6-1 victory against Annie Tung.
The biggest bright spot for the Falcons came in doubles, as Ani Ebrahamian and Audri Pardo swept their three sets. Ebrahamian and Pardo worked together to earn a 6-3, 6-2, 6-4 sweep.
“They will be there battling for a league championship in doubles,” said Gossard, who got a 6-3 doubles win from Tenny Soleymani and Andrea Megerdichian.
The Falcons won just 11 games in singles against a powerful Arcadia trio featuring Francis Dean, Nadia Pacheco and Tung.
“They are just a better team than we are right now,” Gossard said of the Apaches, who are ranked No. 6 in the latest CIF Southern Section Division II poll. “Erin had her first bad day [at the high school level], and that’s going to happen.
“For us to win, everybody is going to have to compete at their highest level.”
Crescenta Valley will next compete at 3:15 p.m. Monday against Marlborough in a nonleague match.
