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The Lancers Badminton team lost to its South Coast Conference rivals, East Los Angeles College 10-11 at East L.A. on Friday April 19.

With the loss, PCC is now unofficially tied with ELAC for first place in the conference.   PCC’s record is 7-2 and ELAC’s record is 9-2.  The reason for Pasadena’s two fewer conference games is that two games with ECC Compton Center were cancelled and still need to be played.  The Lancers have one scheduled game and two make-up games against ECC Compton Center to finish the season.  In the previous game against ECC Compton Center, Pasadena won 19-2.

If Pasadena wins all three games, it will finish the season with a 10-2 record.

ELAC has one game left to play against El Camino.  ELAC beat El Camino in its first three games with a combined score of 47-7.  If ELAC wins its last game they will finish the season with a 10-2 record.

Only one team from the conference will move on to the SoCal Championships.  If two teams are tied at the end of the season, the winner will be decided on the number of points won when those two teams played each other.

PCC and ELAC have a 2-2 record against each other this season.  But Pasadena won 47 of the 84 points available in the four games, with ELAC winning 37 points.

If PCC and ELAC were to end the season tied, PCC would move on to the SoCal Championships.

At the match on Friday, the two teams were evenly matched.  Both teams won six of the 12 singles games.  With Angie Ortiz and Shaghag Avadisian winning both of their games.

But Pasadena won only two of the five doubles games, with Ortiz and Alice Liew winning both their games.

It was the last game of the day, a doubles match between Avadisian and Alyssa Boyt of Pasadena and Shirley Su and Suki Kwan for East L.A. that filled the gym with tension.  The winners of the game would win the match.

Avadisian and Boyt ended up losing the match, and afterward, Avadisian spoke of the pressure of playing the final game of the day.

“I did OK on my singles; I won my two matches, but in doubles I could have done better.  But there was too much pressure on me,” said Avadisian. “I think if the pressure was off I would have done better.”

Coach Bill Sanchez said after the game, “The kids competed well; they played hard.  East LA has a little bit more experience; we don’t have a lot of experience right now.  They all got nervous, that’s what you are supposed to do the first time you go through this thing.  Hopefully we will learn a bunch from it and carry some of this momentum into the state if we can get in.”

 

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