Women's badminton captures conference title with win over Mesa

Women's badminton captures conference title with win over Mesa

Irvine Valley's women's badminton team clinched the Pacific Coast Athletic Conference title on Wednesday with a 19-2 win over San Diego Mesa at home.

The win lifted Irvine Valley's record to 8-0 in conference with one match to go in the regular season for the Lasers.

Grossmont, which is in second place, has a record of 5-2 in conference play.

Irvine Valley won 10 of 12 singles contests and all five doubles matches.

IVC's top player, freshman Cora Tanuwidjaja defeated San Diego Mesa No. 1 Polly Huynh, 21-14, 21-14. Tanuwidjaja then topped Mai Truong, 21-7, 21-14.

The Lasers also got a pair of wins from freshman Stella Shao (No. 3), sophomore Tracey Nie (No. 4), sophomore Jessey Wang (No. 5) and sophomore Bo Ma (No. 6).

Shao won, 21-9, 21-7, and, 21-2, 21-7, while Nie came out on top, 21-12, 21-8, and, 21-12, 21-3.

Wang and Ma each earned one win by default.

In doubles action, IVC's No. 3 team of Shao and Bo picked up a win by default.

The top team of Tanuwidjaja and Nie won, 21-14, 21-7, over Huynh and Truong and, 21-4, 21-5, over the San Diego Mesa No. 2 team of Melanie Stewart and Minsun Jung.

At No. 2 doubles, IVC's duo of sophomore Peinhong Jiang and Wang won, 21-19, 21-13, and, 21-6, 21-10.

Irvine Valley closes out the regular season at home on Friday against Grossmont at 2 p.m.