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CITY SECTION TENNIS.


Byline: Erik Boal Special to the Daily News

Marvin Jones Marvin Jones may refer to:
  • John Marvin Jones, United States congressman
  • Marvin Jones, American football player
 is no stranger to winning City Section titles, having led the El Camino Real El Camino Real (Spanish for The Royal Road or The King's Highway) was the name of a series of pre-automobile highways linking the various New World colonies of Spain:
  • There is an El Camino Real in California; see: El Camino Real (California).
 High of Woodland Hills boys' tennis team to five consecutive championships.

In his first five years as coach of the Conquistadores' girls' team, Jones had never advanced past the Championship division quarterfinals.

El Camino Real finally broke through at home Wednesday behind a grueling three-set win in doubles from Katie Cross and Samantha Thompson, and a clutch performance from freshman Kelsey Finn.

Cross and Thompson outlasted Anaissa Ibrahimi and Christy chris·ty  
n.
Variant of christie.
 Jacogo 6-7 (6-8), 6-4, 7-6 (11-9) in a three-hour match at No. 1 doubles, and Finn delivered an important 6-4, 7-6 (9-7) win at No. 4 singles to lift fourth-seeded El Camino Real to a 4-3 victory over No. 5 Bell (13-1).

``It was a marathon match,'' said Jones, whose team will face West Valley League rival Granada Hills for the third time this season in the Monday's 1 p.m. semifinals at Balboa Balboa, town (1990 pop. 2,751), Colón prov., in the former Panama Canal Zone, on the Gulf of Panama. The port for Panama City, Balboa was the administrative headquarters of the Panama Canal Zone. It was also the site of a U.S. navy base (closed 1999).  Sports Center. ``Both teams played well, and they definitely had us seeded right. It was very, very close all the way down the line.''

Ashley Macias and Adriana Flores Flores, town, Guatemala
Flores (flōrəs), town (1990 est. pop. 2,200), capital of Petén department, N Guatemala. Flores was built on an island in the southern part of Lake Petén Itzá and on the site of the
 swept their singles matches for El Camino Real (10-3).

--Granada Hills 6, North Hollywood 1: Desiree Stone improved to 15-0 with a 6-0, 7-6 (7-1) win against Roxanne Plata, but No. 8 North Hollywood (9-4) proved to be no match for No. 1 Granada Hills (12-2), which moved closer to its third consecutive City title with a quarterfinal quar·ter·fi·nal  
adj.
Of or relating to one of four competitions in a tournament, whose winners go on to play in semifinal competitions.

n.
1. quarterfinals A quarterfinal round.

2. A quarterfinal match.
 victory.

Maria Cardenas, Ramya Sreepathi and Jennifer To recorded 6-0, 6-0 victories in singles for Granada Hills, which benefited from visiting North Hollywood's attempt to try to strengthen its doubles lineup.

``Besides Desiree, I put three junior varsity junior varsity
n. Abbr. JV
A high-school or college team that competes in interschool sports on the level below varsity.

Noun 1.
 girls in singles and hoped for the best in doubles,'' said North Hollywood coach David Lubnow, whose team dropped an 8-2 nonleague decision to Granada Hills on Sept. 23.

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Adriana Flores helped El Camino Real's advance to the section semifinals for the first time in coach Marvin Jones' five years.

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