The Fresno City College women’s tennis team had an impressive outing in their 8-1 victory over the College of Sequoias Giants. This victory improves the Rams record to 4-0 while also carrying a two game lead in the Big Eight south division.

The beginning matches started off in doubles competition as it showed from the start that the Rams were the better prepared team leading up to this match and would dominate the first two doubles matches, winning them as big as 8-0 set victories.

This all led to the third and final doubles match, which was the closest and most competitive match out of the three.

The Rams and Giants were sharing sets back and forth making the match come down to the wire, as Rams teammates Bianca Muniz and Maria Misirli were able to get the serves that they needed to close out the match.

It was their first win as a doubles pairing, giving the Rams a complete sweep in doubles competition.

“It was a slow match. I was trying to kill the ball every time, but we were lucky,” Muniz said. “We waited for the opening to set those kills for us to get the win.”

After the doubles matches, both teams quickly warmed up for their singles matches. The Rams dominated the matches in a quicker process than the doubles matches. Each player on the Rams roster had everything go their way, winning five of the six singles matches.

The dominating singles matches for the Rams featured second year athlete Maria Ochoa who had a strong outing in her single march with a combination of having strong powerful serves while also having quick recoveries to keep the ball in play.

This resulted in a dominating win despite Ochoa battling through a minor shoulder injury.

“I feel like I did well especially during my singles match,” Ochoa said. “Even though having a hurt shoulder, I am still able to perform the best I can winning quickly and consistently.”

The Rams have two conference matches inside of the next four days.

“The big thing that I will take from is this match is the momentum that we built from here on,” head coach Chantel Wiggins said. “Everything that we do is to get better, stronger and more confident, in hopes of heading to state.”