Havens captures Golden West title

Costa Mesa High senior Hilary Havens defeated April Shelley of

Orange, 6-1, 6-2, to win the Golden West League singles title

Wednesday at Ocean View High in Huntington Beach.

The Mustangs, who won the Golden West League team championship,

also had plenty to boast about in doubles, as it was an all-Mesa

final. Costa Mesa seniors Minh-Thy Pham and Chi Doan teamed up to

defeat fellow Mustang seniors Brenda Tran and Laura Fais, 6-0, 6-4.

Havens rolled through the tournament, dropping only three games on

her way to the league championship. Pham and Doan earned a 38-4

record this season, while Tran and Fais were 28-1.

Sea Kings’ doubles rolls into PCL semis

The No. 1 and No. 2 doubles seeds, Taylynn Snyder and Brittany

Holland and Anne and Rachel Yelsey, both from Corona del Mar High

School, won their two matches Wednesday to advance to today’s Pacific

Coast League girls tennis doubles semifinals at Northwood High at 1

p.m.

Snyder and Holland only lost one game in sweeping the two matches,

and the Yelsey sisters won, 6-2, 6-1, in the first match and then won

6-0, 6-0, in their second match Wednesday.

Snyder and Holland will play a team from University High and the

Yelsey sister will face the No. 3-seeded doubles team from Laguna

Beach, said CdM Coach Andy Stewart. Snyder and Holland beat CdM’s

Jackie Manning and Rachel Miller, 6-1, 6-0.

In singles, CdM’s Amanda Rubenstein, the seventh seed, won her

first match, 6-0, 6-0, but lost her second match to second seeded

Aimee Kim from University, 6-2, 6-1, and Juliette Mutzke rolled

through her first match but then lost, 7-5, 6-3, to No. 3-seed

Cameron Barron from Laguna Beach.

CdM’s Jasmine Steele, the No. 8 seed, lost in the first round in

three sets, dropping the last set, 6-4.

Newport’s McIntosh- Dunlap fall in finals

Newport Harbor High’s girls doubles duo of Krista McIntosh and

Vanessa Dunlap defeated a Aliso Niguel tandem, but lost in a

three-set tiebreaker to Foothill in the Sea View League Finals in

high school girls doubles tennis Wednesday at Nellie Gail Racquet

Club in San Clemente.

McIntosh and Dunlap defeated the Aliso Niguel combination, 6-1,

6-0, before facing Foothill’s tea, of Duesler-Colgrove in the league

doubles finals, which they narrowly lost, 4-6, 6-4, 6-7 (7-5).

Sage Hill’s Ammerman, McKitterick advance

Sage Hill High freshmen Kellie Ammerman and Katie McKitterick

advanced to today’s singles semifinals at the Academy League Finals

at Sunny Hills Racquet Club in Fullerton with victories on Wednesday.

Ammerman eliminated Lenna Grosheh of Capistrano Valley Christian,

6-0, 6-2, and McKitterick blanked Christine Chang of Fairmont, 6-0,

6-0, in the first round. Ammerman followed up with a 6-1, 6-1 win

over Jennifer Harris of Capistrano Valley Christian, and McKitterick

defeated Lauren Pasquarelli of St. Margaret’s, 6-1, 6-3.

Teammate Paige Fuller dropped a 6-1, 6-2 first-round decision to

Annie Lu of Whitney.

In doubles play, Jessica Tsoong and Stephanie Chen were 6-0, 6-2

first-round winners over Chan-Khara of Fairmont, but fell in the

quarterfinals to Capistrano Valley Christian’s Trowbridge and Wood,

6-3, 6-1.

Danielle Berman and Laura Webb were 6-1, 6-4 winners over Oxford

Academy’s Chung-Kwak entry, but they fell in the doubles quarters to

Valenti/Reisenwerber of St. Margaret’s, 6-1, 6-2.