Girls tennis: Balboa Bay Racquet Club captures junior girls tennis

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WESTWOOD - The Balboa Bay Club Racquet Club’s junior girls tennis

team captured the state title and the 12s Gar Glenney Cup Tennis

Championship this past weekend at UCLA.

Representing Southern California, Balboa Bay Club defeated the

Northern California team, 5-4. Tied at 4-4, sisters Hayley and Miranda

Young took the third set in tiebreaker to win, 6-4, 4-6, 7-6, to give

Balboa Bay Club Racquet Club the championship.

During Saturday’s singles matches, Balboa Bay’s No. 1 player, Jill

Damion, won her match, 6-3, 6-1. Brittany Cluck, playing No. 5 singles,

pulled out a 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 victory after a two-and-a-half hour match.

Megan McKay, at No. 6 singles, also won a three-set match, 4-6, 6-2, 6-1.

Sarah Geocaris lost, 7-6, 6-2, in No. 2 singles, and Brittany Sturgess

dropped her match, 6-1, 6-2.

In doubles, Damion and Geocaris teamed as Balboa Bay’s top entry and

they won, 6-3, 7-6. Balboa Bay’s No. 2 doubles team, Sturgess and Nora

Bugescu, lost, 6-2, 6-3.