Riverside Sends Sophomores Off Victorious

Riverside City College sent off its sophomores in style with a 7-2 victory over Mt. San Antonio College on Thursday afternoon.

The Tigers improve to 13-3 on the year and 4-2 in the Orange Empire Conference, while the Mounties drop to 5-9 overall and 2-5 in conference.

Prior to the match, RCC honored its six sophomores: Matias Almeida, Florian Mueller, Charalampos Plataniotis, Giovanne Recchia, Ronith Sreeram, and Bryan Tapia.

Patianotis and Vinicius Magrin started the match off with an 8-2 doubles win, before Sreeram and Ethan Lee picked up an 8-3 victory, and Lucas Koitka and Rose handed RCC the doubles sweep with an 8-2 win.

Sreeram (6-0, 6-2), Koitka (6-3, 7-6 (4)), Jayden Weng (6-0, 6-0), and Rose (6-1, 6-1) also won their singles matches to give Riverside the victory.

The Tigers hit the road to close out the regular season, first heading to Fullerton College for a 2 p.m. contest on Tuesday.