Doubles dictate Newport victory

Newport Harbor High’s girls tennis team took eight of nine doubles

sets to seal a 10-8 Sea View League victory over host Laguna Hills

Thursday.

A.J. Olson and Diana Khoury lost just four games in sweeping while

Carly Adams and sister Bonnie Adams took two of three sets. Khoury

played doubles for just the second time this season. Sasha Dunlap and

Megan McKay also claimed two sets, including a 7-6 count with a 7-0

tiebreaker score. Carolyn Hustedt teamed with Bonnie Adams to earn a

6-1 victory.

“The doubles came to play today,” Newport Coach Fletcher Olson

said.

Chrissy Schwartz and Vanessa Dunlap each won one set in singles

for the Sailors (9-3, 4-1 in league) who host Woodbridge in a key

league contest at 3 p.m. Tuesday. Woodbridge defeated Foothill

Thursday, 13-5, to improve to 5-0 in league. Foothill’s 3-2.

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Sea View League

Newport 10, Laguna Hills 8

Singles -- Sturgess (NH) lost to Paul, 0-6, lost to Rosen, 1-6, lost to Williams, 4-6; Schwartz (NH) lost, 2-6, 1-6, won, 6-2, V. Dunlap (NH) lost, 4-6, 3-6, won, 6-2.

Doubles -- Olson-Khoury (NH) def. Terrui-Kempler, 6-1, def. Ainsworth-Ruggio, 6-1, def. Chae-Wieh, 6-2; B. Adams-Hustedt (NH) won, 6-1, (sub) C.Adams for Hustedt (NH) won, 6-4, 6-1; S. Dunlap-Mckay (NH) won, 6-1, lost, 2-6, won, 7-6 (7-0).

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Sage Hill atop league

* Alle Hsu didn’t lose a game at No. 3 singles and Sage Hill

School’s girls tennis team clinched at least a share of the Academy

League crown with a 14-4 victory over visiting St. Margaret’s

Thursday.

The Lightning (10-3, 8-0), No. 1 in CIF Southern Section Division

V, got a sweep from the doubles team of Grace Graham and Laura Webb

to go with two victories each by the teams of Jessica Tsoong-Sarah

Flynn and Sara Sweeny-Salen Andrews against the Tartans (6-4, 5-4),

the defending league champs.

Sarah Geocaris and Stephanie Langer each won two of three singles

sets for Sage, which travels to face Fairmont Prep (11-1, 7-1) in a

league battle Tuesday.

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Academy League

Sage Hill 14, St. Margaret’s 4

Singles -- Geocaris (SH) lost to Huang, 5-7, def. Johnson, 6-1, def. Robertson, 6-0; Langer (SH) won, 6-1, lost, 1-6, won, 6-1; Hsu (SH) won, 6-0, 6-0, 6-0. Doubles - Tsoong-Flynn (SH) lost to McIntyre-Cobsen, 6-7 (6-8), def.

Rodek-Wong, 6-2, def. Hunt-Wetteran, 6-1; Graham-Webb (SH) won, 6-4, 6-3, 6-1; Sweeney-Andrews (SH) won, 6-1, 6-3, lost, 1-6.

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CdM topples T-wolves

* Corona del Mar High’s girls tennis team tuned up for its match

against Laguna Beach next week with a 16-2 Pacific Coast League

victory over visiting Northwood Thursday.

Freshman Jill Damion, playing at No. 1 singles for the first time

this year, won two sets while Brittany Holland lost just one game for

CdM (7-4, 4-1 in league).

Jackie Manning and partner Miranda Young, along with the duo of

Jillian Braverman and Hayley Young, each swept in doubles for the Sea

Kings, ranked sixth in CIF Southern Section Division I.

Rachel Miller and Courtney Carnahan claimed two doubles sets while

Kelly McKitterick, Michelle Atkins and Amanda Rubenstein each won one

set.

Senior Juliette Mutzke and junior Jami Steele didn’t play

Thursday.

Mutzke has battled a sore ankle and is recovering from the flu

while Steele spent four days in the hospital with a viral infection,

CdM Coach Scott Feichter said. Steele should start hitting balls

today, he said.

Both are questionable for Tuesday’s league match against visiting

Laguna Beach, ranked third in Division I, which defeated CdM, 10-8,

two weeks ago.

“I hope [Mutzke] is ready, she is our linchpin in doubles,”

Feichter said. “But I only want her to play if she is healthy. I

don’t want her to relapse.”

CdM would take an inside track to the league championship and gain

valuable standing for the CIF playoffs with a win against Laguna.

“We need 11 [games] to beat them outright, anything less than that

and they win league,” Feichter said. “And we don’t want to get stuck

with Peninsula or Calabasas early [in the CIF playoffs].”

Calabasas is ranked first in Division I while Peninsula is fourth.

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Pacific Coast League

CdM 16, Northwood 2

Singles -- Damion (CdM) def. Yoo, 6-3, (sub) Atkins (CdM) def. Rajan , 6-2, def. Kurtz, 6-2; Holland (CdM) won, 6-0, 6-1, 6-0, McKitterick (CdM) lost, 6-0, won, 6-1, (sub) Rubenstein (CdM) def. Kurtz, 6-1.

Doubles -- Manning-M. Young (CdM) def. Pisalyaput-Nakano, 6-1, def. Yang-Caille, 6-1, def. Amin-Nasamaran, 6-0; Braverman-H. Young (CdM) won, 6-1, 6-4, 6-2; Carnahan-Norman (CdM) lost, 2-6, (sub) Miller (CdM) for Norman won, 6-1, 6-3.

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