GIRLS' TENNIS: YOUTH IS KEY FOR RIO MESA.Byline: SEAN n. 1. A seine. See Seine. CEGLINSKY Staff Writer Youth was served Wednesday Wednesday: see week. at the Pacific View League girls' tennis tournament. Rio Mesa High of Oxnard freshmen Sarah Zook and Sonia Landeros won the doubles title with a 6-3, 6-4 victory over Oxnard's Fatima Sanchez and Lauren Wiggins, and another Spartans freshman, Jessica Vizents, advanced to the singles final before losing to Camarillo's Veronique Van Den Brink, 6-4, 6-1. ``I'm not surprised with how the youngsters played,'' Rio Mesa coach Steve Worthington said. ``These girls are wise beyond their years.'' Zook and Landeros typically play singles but teamed up for the first time this season to defeat Pacifica of Oxnard's Leslie Vea and Joyceann Sim (1) (Society for Information Management, Chicago, IL, www.simnet.org) Founded in 1968 as the Society for MIS, it is a membership organization made up of corporate and division heads of IT organizations. , 6-2, 6-2, in the semifinals and upset top-seeded Sanchez and Wiggins, who entered the day with a 19-0 record. ``Sarah and Sonia brought home the bacon today,'' Worthington said. ``They make a strong team. Putting them together was a no-brainer No-brainer A market in which it does not take very complex analysis to figure out how securities are going to perform, such as a strong bull market. .'' The doubles finals nearly turned out to be an all-Rio Mesa affair until Sanchez and Wiggins defeated the Spartans' Sandra sandra (sänˑ·dr  ),adj Rosene and Taylor Parsell, 7-6(5), 6-2, in the semifinals. Vizents earned a hard-fought victory over Oxnard's Ariel Bergthold, 6-2, 6-7 (5-7), 7-5, in the semifinals. ``Jessica showed some heart,'' Worthington said. ``She has a great ability to adapt to difficult situations and overcome obstacles. She showed some maturity today.'' Crescenta Valley The Crescenta Valley is a small inland valley in Los Angeles County, California. Its name derives from its crescent-like shape, with the convex portion facing roughly northeast and the concave portion southwest. of La Crescenta seniors Ashlee Chan and Kisa Ito rallied from first-set losses in both the semifinal and championship matches, coming back from two match points down in the final to record a 2-6, 7-6 (3), 10-6 victory over teammates Anna Kim and Estelle Kim to capture the Pacific League doubles title at Pasadena High. It marked the fifth time in coach Tom Gossard's 12-year tenure that the Falcons had both teams in the league doubles final, including the first since 2003. Chan and Ito defeated Glendale's Sona Karakashian and Joyce Librando 3-6, 6-3, 10-7 to reach the final. Kim/Kim posted a 2-6, 6-4, 12-10 semifinal win over Arcadia's Erika Lam and Tiffany Tiffany, Tiffanie (UK) a semi-longhaired version of the Burmese cat. It has a fine, silky coat in many colors. Lau. Arcadia's Caitlyn Ward outlasted C.V.'s Natalie Abou-Chakra 4-6, 6-2, 10-7 in the singles final. -- Erik Boal contributed sean.ceglinsky@dailynews.com (818) 713-3607 |
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