This past Sunday’s league match saw the congregation of 6 Southern California schools: UCSD, UCLA, UCI, UCSB, SDSU and USC. UCSD was in competition with UCI, UCSB and USC. UCSD fielded a full roster and won against UCI, UCSB and USC 8-7, 11-4, and 10-5 respectively. Men’s doubles 1 and first year Joey Zhang won both his games against Marc Rusli of UCSB and Shiv Prathink of USC 11-21, 21-13, 23-21 and 11-21, 21-19 and 21-11 respectively. Joey has been keeping up this incredible performance throughout the year and a great team member as he is able to hold the men’s singles 1 spot in a commanding manner. Sophomore Carleen Li came back starting this quarter after taking an extended break and won against UCI’s Michelle Chen 21-13, 21-11. Unfortunately, she lost to UCSB’s Jessica Wang 13-21, 13-21. Freshman Mitsuyo Machida put up an impressive performance winning all three of her games against the three schools that UCSD played. As a single’s specialist, she can concentrate her time to that discipline and attributes her success to that factor. UCSD Men’s doubles 1 Arnav Taneja and Andrew Li had a particularly rough showing as they unfortunately lost both their matches to UCSB and USC. This was probably due to the fact that they are both playing in the single’s discipline as well and were well exhausted by the time that their doubles matches came around. Andrew Li stated that he was particularly disappointed in his own performance and bad luck as both him and his partner’s racket strings broke during their matches. Being as young as they are however, they are already eager to participate in the next league match on 4/1 along with the rest of the team.