Irvine Valley's men's tennis team lost to Cypress, 8-1, in its final home match of the regular season on Thursday.
The Lasers saw their record slip to 5-8 overall and 5-3 in the Orange Empire Conference. Cypress improved to 9-5 overall and 7-1 in conference.
IVC was chasing Cypress for the second position in the conference standings.
Irvine Valley lost all three doubles matches. IVC just missed out on a win at the third spot with the freshmen duo of Jacob Holiday and William Li. They fell, 8-6, to Jan Simon and Giovanni Fragalle.
In singles action, Irvine Valley picked up its win from freshman Michael Bott at the top spot. He beat Alex Hagon.
Bott was up, 4-1, in the first set when Hagon retired.
Irvine Valley plays again at Fullerton on Thursday and at Riverside next Tuesday.
Singles
1) Michael Bott (IVC) def. Alex Hagon (CYP), 4-1, (retired)
2) Jan Simon (CYP) def. Jacob Holiday (IVC), 7-6, 6-3
3) Johan Wennerholm (CYP) def. Thallys Santos (IVC), 7-6, 6-3
4) Ingmar Remmerswaal (CYP) def. William Li (IVC), 6-2, 6-1
5) Thomas Davies (CYP) def. Alvaro Mantilla (IVC), 6-1, 6-4
6) Tomi Bella (CYP) def. Stuart Webb (IVC), 6-1, 6-0
Doubles
1) Hagon/Wennerholm (CYP) def. Santos/Bott (IVC), 8-5
2) Gertjan De Wilder/Remmerswaal (CYP) def. Webb/Randy Murphy (IVC), 8-4
3) Simon/Fragalle (CYP) def. Holiday/Li (IVC), 8-6
