Big 8 North Individual Conference Tournament
ARC singles seeds: ARC doubles seeds:
1. Seppi Capaul 2. Capaul/Giovannini
5. Jimmy Giovannini 4. Aukland/Foote
9. John Foote 6. Nic Atkinson/Ryan Wilson
10. TJ Aukland
11. Dylan King
The 2015 Big 8 North Individual Conference Tournament was hosted by ARC. The tournament serves as the qualifier for the year ending Individual State Championships at Ojai. ARC was well represented in the tournament, holding 5 of the top 11 seeds in singles and 3 of the top 6 seeds in doubles. In the singles the Beavers more than lived up to the seedings, as Seppi Capaul won the tournament and Jimmy Giovannini revenged an earlier loss to DVC #1 Sean Austin Miller in the quarterfinals to reach the semifinals. Other highlights of the singles included both John Foote and Dylan King upsetting higher seeds in close three-set matches to reach the quarterfinals, thus allowing them to qualify for Ojai.
The doubles performances were equally impressive for the Beavers. #6 seeded Nic Atkinson/Ryan Wilson upset #3 seeded Arthur Lai/Kevin To from Santa Rosa to reach the semifinals, meaning that all 3 ARC teams had qualified for Ojai and that 3 of the final 4 teams remaining in the draw were from ARC. In the final, #2 seeded Capaul/Giovannini attempted to gain retribution for two earlier losses to the #1 seeded team of Landon Browne/Jonathon Pike from Santa Rosa. The two teams split sets and the match would be settled in a 10-point match tiebreak. The Beavers went up early, building the lead to 9-5. The Bear Cubs from Santa Rosa fought back to 9-7, but Giovannini came up with a big second serve and great first volley to set up Capaul for the finishing crossing volley. It was an incredible atmosphere and a great performance by the #1 team from ARC. It was the third straight doubles conference championship for the Beavers and the second time in ten years that an ARC player (Seppi Capaul) had won both the singles and the doubles conference titles.