The local scholastic boys tennis season is off and running at several area schools. At La Jolla Country Day (LJCD) School, veteran head coach Angela Horacek will look to the likes of Daniel Faierman, Warren Wood, Eric Miller, Alex Mirbod, Sean Taylor, Conner Jacobs, Adam Klinefeld, Max Ferre and Peter Alexander to lead the way. “The boys have high expectations for this season,” Horacek noted. LJCD, which is currently on spring break, opened its season with wins over San Pasqual, Army/Navy, Cathedral and Brophy College Prep, while losing to Francis Parker, Corona del Mar and Seattle Prep. At La Jolla High School, head coach Tom Andrews and the Vikings went unbeaten last season in Western League play and captured a CIF Division III crown with a victory over Cathedral in the finals. “This year, we have the same basic team, with the exception of Kyle Van Buskirk who graduated last year,” Andrews commented. “We have two injured players, which obviously weakens the team, but the Vikings are deep with talent and can overcome. I believe the team really needs to focus on their goal, and they want to win the CIFs again. Every player on our squad will be needed.” Andrews will look to Michael Rabinivich, Sean Rodriguez, Niko Karnopp, Johnathon Lo and Daniel Lapidus to lead the way.    “Erwin Hernandez, Blake Cummings, Jerry Lin, Chris Langbort, Harper Allen, William Zhang, Max Einhorn and Austin Wang are all very impressive and I am counting on all of them,” Andrews added. La Jolla opens Western League play today, March 26 against Cathedral at home in a 3 p.m. match. At The Bishop’s School, head coach Jose Ruelas and the Knights finished third in the Coastal League a season ago at 9-5, with an overall mark of 11-9. Bishop’s fell to La Jolla in the quarterfinals of the CIFs. Bishop’s returns 10 players from last year’s team, including starters and senior co-captains Peter Rokosz and Vasu Prathipati. In singles play, Bishop’s expects solid results from Robert Xie, Armen Abagyan, Keaton Lipson and Brent Thomas. “If we can get more wins with the two and three doubles teams, I feel we will be very competitive with all the teams in our league, which is one of the toughest in the county,” Ruelas noted.   As of last week, Bishop’s was 2-1 in play. “Overall, we need to be more aggressive in our doubles play and have better results from our singles players,” Ruelas added. “We will get stronger as the season progresses due to the fact that we just returned from a two-week spring break.”