Sailors edge Thousand Oaks

The Newport Harbor High girls tennis team survived Thousand Oaks,

10-8, in the first round of the CIF Southern Section Division I

playoffs Thursday afternoon.

The Sailors (13-7) only won two singles sets, but the doubles play

saved Newport as teammates Sasha Dunlap-Brittanny Sturgess and Alex

McIntosh-Brittany Cluck swept their sets.

The Sailors will face Harvard-Westlake in the second round

Saturday at 2 p.m. with the site to be determined today by a coin

flip. If Newport and Corona del Mar both win second-round matches,

the Back Bay rivals would square off in the quarterfinals Tuesday.

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CIF Division I

First round Newport Harbor 10, Thousand Oaks 8

Singles -- Schwartz (NH) lost to Ritz, 6-2, lost to Erib, 6-3, def. Mana, 6-1; Chinn (NH) lost, 6-1, 6-0, won, 6-4; Casserly (NH) lost, 6-0, 6-0, sub Edmonston (NH) lost, 6-0.

Doubles -- Adams-McKay (NH) def. Koenig-Neidi, 6-2, lost to Cralenia-McLevide, 7-5, def. Doheny-Brinkley, 7-5; Dunlap-Sturgess (NH) won, 6-1, 6-0, 6-2; McIntosh-Cluck (NH) won, 6-1, 6-0, 6-2.

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CdM dominates Rosary

* The Corona del Mar High girls tennis team handily defeated

visiting Rosary, 18-0, in the CIF Southern Section Division I

first-round playoffs Thursday afternoon.

No. 3 singles player sophomore Michelle Atkins swept her sets

without losing a single game, while No. 1 singles player Jill Damion

swept her sets, 6-2, 6-0, 6-0.

The third-seeded Sea Kings face Mission Viejo in the second round

Saturday at a site to be determined by a coin flip.

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CIF Division I

First round Corona del Mar 18, Rosary 0

Singles -- Damion (CdM) def. Pilott, 6-2, def. Chapin, 6-0, def. Gaitan, 6-0; Walters (CdM) won, 6-2, 6-2, sub Bryan (CdM) won, 6-1; Atkins (CdM) won, 6-0, 6-0, 6-0.

Doubles -- H. Young-Steele (CdM) def. Hall-Gorciak, 6-3, sub McKitterick-Chen (CdM) def. Mauban-Urmanita, 6-4, def. Schaeffer-Periane, 6-3; M. Young-Miller (CdM) won, 6-1, 6-0, sub M. Young-Fransen (CdM) won 7-6; Norman-Kaiden (CdM) won, 6-2, 6-2, 6-1.

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Estancia advances

* The Estancia High girls tennis team defeated visiting Sierra

Vista, 14-4, Thursday in a CIF Southern Section Division V

first-round match.

The Eagles (13-4) were led by No. 1 singles player Sarah Stratton,

as well as sweeps from Marci Kirchberg and Sara Muradian, the No. 2

doubles team, and Sage O’Toole and Cathy Pittman, the No. 3 team.

“We were a bit nervous heading into the match,” Coach Rachel de

los Santos said. “We were ahead 4-2 after the first rotation and that

settled us down.”

Estancia will play Aquinas/Victor Valley Saturday in the second

round. A coin flip today will determine the site.

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CIF Division V

First round Estancia 14, Sierra Vista 4

Singles -- Stratton (E) def. Acosta, 6-4, def. Nguyen, 6-4, def. Garcia, 6-1; Zaidler (E) won 7-5, lost, 1-6, won, 6-0; Morton (E) lost, 1-6, 1-6, won, 6-2.

Doubles -- Kulczyk-Simmons (E) lost to Kit-Man, 4-6, def. Tran-Pearpoint, 6-2, def. Rojo-Truong, 6-2; Kirchberg-Muradian (E) won 6-3, 6-1, 6-4; O’Toole-Pittman won 6-0, 7-5, 6-4.

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Lightning win handily

* The third-seeded Sage Hill School girls tennis team lost just

two games the entire first round in building a 6-0 lead and cruised

to a 15-3 CIF Southern Section Division V first-round victory against

visiting San Dimas Thursday at the Balboa Bay Club Racquet Club.

The Lightning (13-6) will face either Mammoth or Granite Hills in

the second round Saturday.

Sophomore Sarah Geocaris didn’t lose a game in sweeping her three

sets, improving to 42-4 on the season, while sophomore Stephanie

Langer won, 6-0, 6-1, 6-2, for the Lightning.

Each of Sage’s three starting doubles teams claimed two victories

before Coach A.G. Longoria began substituting players in the later

rounds. Sarah Flynn and Alle Hsu, who reached the Academy League

doubles final, along with the duos of Salen Andrews and Carissa

Cummings, and Grace Graham and Rachel Heyler, all won twice.

Sage didn’t escape without injury, though.

Starting singles player Alyssa Lee turned an ankle in the second

set and may miss the next match, Longoria said. Emily Webb, who lost

in a tiebreaker to San Dimas’ Rhea Vista, 7-6 (8-6), Thursday, would

take Lee’s place, he said. Lee won her first set, 6-0, before the

injury.

San Dimas ended the season 9-7.

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CIF Division V

First round Sage Hill 15, San Dimas 3

Singles -- Geocaris (SH) def. Vista, 6-0, def. Johnson, 6-0, def. Ketigbak, 6-0; Langer (SH) won, 6-0, 6-1, 6-2; (sub) Webb (SH) lost, 6-7 (6-8), Lee (SH) won, 6-0, lost by default (injury).

Doubles -- Flynn-Hsu (SH) def. Coffin-Carnahan, 6-2, def. Dean-Harstmann, 6-0, (sub) Han-Williams (SH) def. Calvanico-Abalos, 6-3; Andrews-Cummings (SH) won, 6-0, 6-1, (sub) Dokich-Boras (SH) won, 6-1; Graham-Heyler (SH) won, 6-0, 6-1, lost, 4-6.

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