The Rio Hondo Women’s Tennis team faced El Camino College at home on March 10, but only won one out of nine of their matches and lost the game by a score of 8-1.  Rio Hondo currently has an overall record of 2-7, as they struggle to pick things up in the second half of the season.

Meanwhile, El Camino has consecutively won their last three matches going into their match against Rio Hondo and had every intention of increasing their winning streak to four matches.

The only winners of the day for Rio Hondo were doubles partners Diana Laureano and Alejandra Vasquez, who won their match by a score of 8-4.

Nicole Robbins lost her singles match versus El Camino player Racheal Eshillonu by a score of 6-0 and 6-2. Trecia Gonzaga suffered a similar fate in her singles match as well. Gonzaga played versus Violet Simpson and lost her match by a score of 6-2 and 6-3.

As other matches were going on, everything seemed to be going in favor of El Camino as Rio Hondo did everything they could to keep themselves in the game.

Delia Hidalgo and Laureano also lost their singles matches, although Laureano won her doubles match with her partner Vasquez, 8-4.

The last two singles matches also ended in nearly one–sided defeats in favor of El Camino, as they dominated their matches mercilessly.

The first doubles match was played by Robbins and Hidalgo, who played against ECC partners Eshillonu and Simpson. ECC aslo ended up winning this match by a score of  8-1.

Gonzaga and Roxanne Valverde were next up to face Jade Shugars and Natsuki Hoshiko. Shugars and Hoshiko immediately got on the scoreboard and completely dominated the game, which ended 8-0.

Laureano and Vasquez were the only two who managed to get a win against a fierce ECC team, as they won their match 8-4 against Natalie Juarez and Shadera Woodland.

But this would only come as a consolation win for Rio Hondo, who lost overall by a score of 8-1, winning only one out of nine of their matches that afternoon.

With only six more games to go before the start of the South Coast Conference Championships, Rio Hondo needs to continue t0 work hard and maintain their dedication in order to turn their fast ending season around. Nothing is set in stone though, and there are still plenty of games left to flip the switch and get the wins that they need to be prepared to go into the South Coast Conference Championship which commences on April 7.

It is definitely not going to be an easy task though, as the level of competition this season is very high throughout their division.

Rio Hondo will next travel to face Mt. San Antonio College for a Conference match on March 15 at Cal Poly Pomona at 2 p.m.