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Doubles Team Advances to Central Section Championships

WASCO — After two days of high school boys tennis action, Kern County will have a good mix of veterans and first-time qualifiers competing for an individual Central Section championship next week at Reedley-Immanuel.
 
The No. 2-seeded doubles team, featuring Bradley Campoy and Keen Nguyen also advanced, defeating Antonio Maldonado and Erik Castillo from Wasco and then holding off Andrej Dojcinovski and Kyle Olouch from Stockdale, 7-6 (7-5), 6-4.
 

It will be Campoy’s third trip to the section doubles tournament, and with three different partners.

The senior reached the quarterfinals in each of the last two years, with Heman Wahi in 2021 and Thomas Lehman last year.

"It's always tough starting over (with a new partner), but I've been lucky to have three great people all three years," Campoy said. "We have to always figure out how to adapt to each other's play and we've made it work."

That continuity was apparent the past few days and now gives Campoy another chance at a section title, this time with Nguyen.

"We have great communication with each other and great court sense where we always know where each other is going and setting up each other at the net," Campoy said. "I feel like that's what Keen and I are best at."