TENNIS NOTEBOOK: CALABASAS TOP TEAM TO MOVE ON.Byline: Lauren Gustus Staff Writer Location is everything. Just ask the Calabasas girls' tennis team, which advanced to the Southern Section Division 1 semifinals with a 10-8 victory over Woodbridge of Irvine on Tuesday afternoon. The Coyotes started the match at Calabasas High but had to move to the Calabasas Tennis Club, which has lighted courts, after players no longer could see. Sophomore Amanda Fink and senior Erin Everly Erin Invicta Everly (born November 8 1965 in Los Angeles ,California) is the daughter of Don Everly, and niece to Phil Everly from the Everly Brothers, and actress Venetia Stevenson. Her siblings are sister Stacy Everly and brother Edan Everly. each pulled out wins at the tennis club to give the Coyotes two points and the victory. But it was freshman Kristen McVitty who was the unlikely heroine in Calabasas' success. She faced Woodbridge's No. 1 singles player, Liz Exon Exon In split genes, a portion that is included in the ribonucleic acid (RNA) transcript of a gene and survives processing of the RNA in the cell nucleus to become part of a spliced messenger RNA (mRNA) or structural RNA in the cell cytoplasm. , in the first round and after 90 minutes dropped the set 7-5. Although she lost, she wore out Exon, who had two more sets to play against Fink and Everly. ``It helped the other girls,'' Calabasas coach Bill Bellatty said after the match. ``That was a big one.'' --In other matches Tuesday: --Oaks Christian of Westlake Village, in its first year in the Frontier League The Frontier League, based in Troy, Illinois, is a professional, independent baseball organization located in the Midwestern United States and Western Pennsylvania. It operates mostly in cities not served by Major or Minor League Baseball teams and is not affiliated with either. , advanced to the Division V semifinals with a victory over Savanna savanna or savannah (both: səvăn`ə), tropical or subtropical grassland lying on the margin of the trade wind belts. . Oaks Christian won in a bizarre way, prevailing in tiebreaker tie·break·er n. An additional contest or period of play designed to establish a winner among tied contestants. Also called tiebreak. tie points after the teams tied 9-9 in sets and 92-92 in games. To settle the deadlock, the teams went back out and played a series of tiebreakers, which the teams also split 9-9. However, Oaks Christian was deemed the winner based on winning the most points in the tiebreakers. Senior Sunday Tsai came up big for Oaks Christian, winning all three sets 6-0. --Host Campbell Hall Campbell Hall can refer to:
Division III (or DIII) is a division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association of the United States. semifinals. --Valencia, which advanced to the quarterfinals for the first time in school history, ended its playoff run, losing to Long Beach Wilson 9-9 (86-77 in games). --Next year? Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks didn't finish at the top of the Mission League, but the Knights could creep up on Harvard-Westlake of Studio City and Chaminade of West Hills next fall. ``They are as it shows,'' Notre Dame coach Heidi Broecking said. ``There is a lot of potential, but we are not a tough team yet.'' Notre Dame's season ended in the first round of the Division I playoffs Thursday with a loss to powerhouse Corona Del Mar. Notre Dame's No. 1 doubles team, Erynne Oki and Christina Toth, won Notre Dame's lone sets. The tandem, both juniors next year, has been knocking off top teams all season long. They also took two of three sets against Harvard-Westlake this season. Oki, who was the runner-up in the Mission League individuals last week, will compete Saturday in the Southern Section Individual playoffs. According to Broecking, Notre Dame will see another Oki on the court next fall. Erynne's younger sister will be an incoming freshman. |
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