PD Tennis Heads To CIF Finals

The Claremont Club is becoming home-away-from-home for the Palm Desert High Boys Tennis team.   

For the third time in four years, the Aztecs will be at the Claremont to play for a CIF Tennis Championship.

Palm Desert rolled their way through the semi-finals on Tuesday, upending  Burbank/Burroughs 14-4.

For senior doubles player Blake Eggleston, it’s becoming a near perfect way to end his high school career.

“The only thing we’ve wanted was to win CIF,” Eggleston said, “since that last [Palm Desert] team that won was in 1995.” 

Abe Hewko was moved to #2 singles this week, and he responded by picking up all three points in his matches. Aidan Korros, who also dropped to #3 for Palm Desert, won two of his three matches.  

Aztec doubles teams were near perfect, taking 8 of their 9 total sets. 

Hewko and the doubles teams of Nick Cummins/Jack Felich  and Eggleston/Chris Bastardi  have a potentially busy weekend before the CIF finals.  They’re all off to play in the CIF individual Championships this Friday and Saturday.

Palm Desert will face  #3 seed Santa Monica High for the CIF Tennis Team Championship Wednesday June 1, at 11:30am