Two Newport Harbor doubles teams bow out

The run through the CIF Southern Section doubles tournament for two

Newport Harbor High girls tennis duos ended Thursday in the Round of

16 at SeaCliff Country Club.

Seniors Bonnie Adams and Vanessa Dunlap, the Sea View League

doubles champions, valiantly fought through two tiebreakers in the

final two sets but lost to Jane Huh and Ashley Alger from

Marlborough, 0-6, 7-6 (4), 7-6 (5).

Adams and Dunlap led both the second and third sets, 5-4, and were

serving for the match each time.

The Newport tandem won four straight games to earn a 5-4 lead in

the third set and needed to break serve to force a tiebreaker.

“The Marlborough team was too tough,” Newport Coach Fletcher Olson

said. “I don’t think [Adams and Dunlap] made two errors in that first

set.”

Their Newport teammates Diana Khoury and A.J. Olson, whom Dunlap

and Adams defeated for the league title, lost to the top-seeded duo

of Cheyenne and Katrina Reveche of Campbell Hall, 6-1, 6-2, in Round of 16 action Thursday.

The four helped lead the Sailors to a share of the league

championship with Woodbridge and to the second round of the CIF

Division I playoffs.