Two Newport teams advance
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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