The Live Oak girls tennis team's eighth shutout victory of the year over Colusa also gave them a clean sweep of the Sacramento Valley League (9-0). The Lions are 27-1 in the SVL over the past three years. They improved to 15-2 overall this season.
For SVL individual tournament seeding purposes, coach Greg Sanchez moved Daniela Dumitras up to the number one ladder position, where she won 6-4, 6-2. This will likely place her second or third in the tournament, away from teammate Jennifer DeWitt.
DeWitt, normally Live Oak's number one player, won at number two (6-1, 6-1). Also winning in singles were Alora Sutcliffe (6-4, 6-3), Fermina Chavez (7-6 (3), 6-4), Melissa Anderson (6-2, 6-0) and Kayla Morris (6-0, 6-2).
In doubles, DeWitt and Jewel Wise won 9-7, while Manpreet Dhoot and Jaspreet Pamma won 8-2. Colusa forfeited the final doubles match.
Live Oak hosts the SVL tournament, the qualifier for the northern section meet, this Friday and Saturday at the Yuba City Racquet Club's Rancho Cortez site.
They'll also host a first round northern section division II playoff match against Gridley on October 27 at 2 p.m. The winner will advance to the section championship the next day.
Volleyball
Gridley 3, Winters 0
The Lady Bulldogs won their fourth straight game to improve to 14-11 overall and 4-1 in the Butte View League by knocking off Winters 3-0 (25-11, 25-19, 25-4).
McKenna Cox led the team with nine kills, while Kacy Blenn had seven, Sheena Ruggirello had six, and Lawna Sannar, Mallory Walton and Carolann Warren each had one.
Ruggirello led the team with six aces, while Teryn Mathews had three as the Bulldogs totaled 15 in the match. Mimi Waller and Natalie Janda had two, and Blenn and Cox had one. The team had only two errors on 71 serves.
Cox and Warren each had one block. Waller led with six digs and six serve receptions.
Los Molinos 3, Biggs 0
The Lady Wolverines fell to 2-16-1 (0-4 in the Mid-Valley League) after a 3-0 loss (8-25, 9-25, 24-26) to the Bulldogs.
Live Oak 3, Colusa 0
The Lady Lions won their second straight game 3-0 (25-18, 25-21, 25-16) over Colusa to improve to 8-6 overall and 2-1 in the SVL.
Ashley Howell led the team with seven of their 20 kills, while Paulina Heredia had five, Stephanie Taylor had four, Bibi Alejo had three and Lisa Saefong had one.
Howell also tied for the team lead with Alejo, who each had five aces. Judy Saefong chipped in three aces, Jessica Mejia had two, and Taylor and Claudia Sandoval each had one.
Football
Willows 15, Live Oak 14
The Lions lost their third straight SVL game to drop to 4-4 overall and 1-3 in league. Live Oak has a bye this Friday, and will finish the regular season with a home game against Pierce on October 30, and a road game against Rio Vista on November 6.
