Girls tennis: Yelsey set to defend PCL singles crown

LAGUNA BEACH - Junior sensation Anne Yelsey of Corona del Mar High,

the top seed in the Pacific Coast League girls tennis singles

championships, won two matches Thursday to advance to today’s semifinals

at noon at Laguna Beach High.

Yelsey, the defending PCL champion, will face an opponent from

University, CdM Coach Andy Stewart said, while CdM teammates Leslie

Damion and Juliette Mutzke will square off in the other semifinal.

CdM senior Brittany Reitz, the defending CIF Southern Section

individual singles champion, was ruled ineligible because opposing PCL

coaches voted her ineligible “because she didn’t play enough matches,”

Stewart said.

Reitz was last year’s PCL runner-up to Yelsey, who forfeited her CIF

quarterfinal match last year and is hoping to avenge that setback in

2001.

In doubles, CdM’s Amanda Rubenstein and Brittany Minna will play

Cameron Barron-Sandman and Lindsay Butterwick of Laguna Beach in the

semifinals today, while CdM’s Brittany Holland and Taylynn Snyder, the

top seed, will face a team from Laguna Beach.