With the score knotted at 4-4, all eyes turned to the winner-take-all singles-4 match between West Valley's Ruth Herrera-Flores and Chabot's Sophie Fujioka. Herrera-Flores took set one 6-3, but Fujioka evened it up with a 7-5 set-two win. Set three was all Herrera-Flores. Her 6-3 victory gave the Vikings the 5-4 match win and kept them atop the Coast Conference at 6-1, 8-1 overall. The loss dropped Chabot to 4-2, 2-1 in the Coast.

It was the second conference-match clincher for Herrera-Flores, whose singles-four triumph helped the Vikings top Foothill 5-4 on Feb. 11. Isabella Pacini-Pinto picked up a pair of points, winning her singles-three match and teaming with Faith Son for a doubles-two win. Kristina Gazaryan (S2) and Bailey Sylva (S5) took their singles matches.

The Vikings opened the week with a 9-0 blanking of Cañada (1-3, 1-3 Coast). They head to SoCal for matches against Mt. San Jacinto (4-4) and College of the Desert (3-1) and then return to Coast action against Cabrillo (2-2, 2-2) March 11 at the West Valley tennis Complex. First serve is 2:00pm.

Complete West Valley/Chabot scores:

D1: Mina Kaloski/Sandy Morizawa (CC) defeat Kristina Gazaryan/Ruth Herrera-Flores (WVC) 8-4

D2: Faith Son/Isabella Pacini-Pinto (WVC) defeat Sophie Fujioka/Karina Smith (CC) 8-6

D3: Kayla Birdsell/Alma Hwang (CC) defeat Bailey Sylva/Pranjal Goyal (WVC) 8-3

S1: Mina Kaloski (CC) defeats Faith Son (WVC) 6-1, 6-2

S2: Kristina Gazaryan (WVC) defeats Sandy Morizawa (CC) 6-4, 6-2

S3: Isabella Pacini-Pinto (WVC) defeats Karina Smith (CC) 6-3, retire

S4: Ruth Herrera-Flores (WVC) defeats Sophie Fujioka (CC) 6-3, 5-7, 6-3

S5: Bailey Sylva (WVC) defeats Kayla Birdsell (CC) 6-2, 6-3

S6: Gyldelle Esparza (CC) defeats Pranjal Goyal (WVC) 6-3, 7-5

Complete West Valley/Cañada scores:

D1: Faith Son/Isabella Pacini-Pinto (WVC) defeat Athena Pang/Kathy Kau (CC) 8-4

D2: Ruth Herrera-Flores/Kristina Gazaryan (WVC) defeat Kiki Chou/Paola Marchetti (CC) 8-3

D3: Bailey Sylva/Pranjal Goyal (WVC) defeat Hong Tian/Anhid Yeremian (CC) 8-1

S1: Faith Son (WVC) defeats Athena Pang (CC) 6-3, 6-2

S2: Kristina Gazaryan (WVC) defeats Kiki Chou (CC) 4-6, retire

S3: Isabella Pacini-Pinto (WVC) defeats Kathy Kau (CC) 6-2, 6-2

S4: Ruth Herrera-Flores (WVC) defeats Anahid Yeremian (CC) 2-0 retire

S5: Bailey Sylva (WVC) defeats Paola Marchetti (CC) 6-3, retire

S6: Pranjal Goyal (WVC) defeats Hong Tian (CC) 6-1, 6-0