Priscilla Grinner, Georgia Brown lead Granada | College News

It was solely acceptable that Georgia Brown and Priscilla Grinner notched the clinching level for the Granada Hills women’ tennis crew during its annual City Section championship match towards Palisades on Wednesday afternoon at Balboa Sports Center in Encino.

The Highlanders’ No. 1 duo and reigning two-time City particular person doubles champions overcame a 4-3 deficit to beat Palisades’ No. 2 tandem of Sashi Gancheva and Penelope Mihal 6-4, finishing a sweep of their three units (every value 1.5 factors) within the round-robin format to spark Granada Hills’ 17 to 12.5 victory.

The No. 2 crew of Amy Nghiem and America Fragoso additionally swept and Sayuri Parandian received all 4 of her units at No. 1 singles for Granada Hills (13-1), which captured its 14th part crown and second straight within the Open Division underneath coach Troy Aiken.

“During the changeover we just had to refocus, but we pick each other up when we need to,” stated Grinner, who gutted by means of a painful labrum tear in her hip for the prospect to complete her high faculty profession on prime. “I’m having surgery in December but you can bet I wasn’t gonna miss the team finals or individuals with Georgia.”

“Winning last year was great but this one means more because the majority of us are seniors and this was our last time playing for the team title,” Brown stated.

Grinner and Brown are undefeated towards City Section opponents in doubles over the past three seasons.

Once the end result was determined, each groups started subbing out their starters, however Parandian and Palisades sophomore Shaya Jovanovic, within the No. 2 spot, agreed to play anyway and handled everybody watching to a scintillating baseline show earlier than the older participant prevailed 8-6 in a tiebreaker. Jovanovic took her different three singles units, and EJ Martin received two of three earlier than being changed for the final rotation.

“I’ve seen Shaya at tournaments, but I’d never played her before so we both wanted to do it,” stated Parandian, who received injured in her third set and was subbed out for the fourth set in final fall’s 16 to 11.5 finals win over the Dolphins, who’ve received 29 part titles since 1973, together with 21 underneath longtime coach Bud King.

The groups have met within the finals 13 occasions within the final 14 years and have mixed to win the final 23 upper-division titles. Since the Open Division debuted in 2017, Palisades has received it 5 of eight occasions.

Top-seeded Granada Hills beat No. 4 Marshall 26.5 to three within the semifinals Monday whereas the second-seeded Dolphins (15-3) defeated No. 3 El Camino Real 27.5 to 2.