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Sometimes you have to step back and just say, “This is ridiculous.” <\/span>The Moore League sent three girls’ tennis teams to the CIF playoffs this year: Lakewood, Wilson, and Poly. <\/span>With Wilson’s elimination at the hands of the La Reina Regents yesterday afternoon coming on the score-by-games tiebreaker, that means all three of those teams got booted via that method.<\/span><\/p>\n To catch you up: tennis team matches play three rounds, with six matches per round. <\/span>Afterward, the team who has won the most matches out of those 18 takes the win—unless it’s tied at nine, in which case the team with more set victories advances. <\/span>Unfortunately for fans of local tennis, all three of our LB teams got knocked out via the tiebreaker method. <\/span><\/p>\n The Regents were topping the Bruins 7-5 after two rounds, but the Bruins lunged back into it, winning four of the final six matches in order to force the tiebreak—which they lost, 83-80. <\/span>Again, that makes them the third Moore League team (out of three) to end their season on a tiebreak.<\/span><\/p>\n Now, I went ahead and did a little research here to show you how ludicrous this is. <\/span>So far in Division III CIF postseason play, there have been 38 total matches played, including the wildcard. <\/span>Of those 38, six matches have gone to the tiebreak—half of those have been Moore League teams. <\/span>How weird is that?<\/span><\/p>\n After Poly’s defeat at the rackets of South Pasadena in the wild card round, I asked ‘Rabbits coach Ricardo Montecinos about the rarity of the tiebreak coming into play. <\/span>“It’s not uncommon,” he said. <\/span>“Actually I’d say it happens with some regularity.” <\/span>It does if you’re from the Moore Leauge, at least.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We’re a perfect three-for-three: unfortunately, that’s three teams who’ve been eliminated from CIF playoffs via the tiebreaker method.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5289"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=5289"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}