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Two doubles team from the Newport Harbor High girls tennis squad

advanced to the Round of 16 after winning matches in the CIF Southern

Section doubles championships Saturday at the Costa Mesa Tennis

Center.

The Sailors duo of Bonnie Adams and Vanessa Dunlap, who had a bye

in the first round, defeated Amy and Stacy Kaufman of Huntington

Beach, 6-1, 6-0, then scored a 6-2, 6-4 win over Sunny Hills’

Michelle Wong and Michelle Esquivel.

Newport’s Diana Khoury and A.J. Olson defeated Audrey Jacobsen and

Kathryn McIntyre of St. Margaret’s, 6-3, 6-1, in the first round.

And, in the second round recorded a 6-2, 6-4 win over Kendra Faulkner

and Emily Kim of Martin Luther King.

To advance to the Round of 16, Khoury and Olson then defeated

Mater Dei’s Carolina Velasco and Andrea Zamucen, , 6-4, 3-6, 10-5.

CdM’s Holland falls

* Corona del Mar High senior Brittany Holland won her first-round

match, 6-1, 6-2, but fell Los Alamitos’ Gia Naferate, 0-6, 7-6 (7-5),

10-8, in the CIF Southern Section girls singles championships

Saturday at the Costa Mesa Tennis Center.

Holland, the No. 1 singles player for the Sea Kings, who reached

the Division I semifinals, and Naferate were tied at 8 in the

third-set, which is a 10-point super tiebreaker.

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