Palisades beats Granada Hills to win 14th City | College News
For the fifteenth time in the last 16 years, Palisades and Granada Hills met for the City Section Open Division ladies’ tennis championship Wednesday afternoon.
For the second yr in a row, Palisades got here out on top, profitable eight of 9 doubles units (each price one and a half factors) in the round-robin format on its manner to a 20-9.5 victory at Balboa Sports Center in Encino.
It was the thirty first City title for the top-seeded Dolphins (21-5), who clinched the championship when their No. 1 doubles workforce of Remy Trepanier and Penelope Mihal beat the Highlanders’ No. 3 duo of Nicole Khachatourians and Sammi Cho 6-1 to earn Palisades’ fifteenth level
“We lost our top seven players from last year but these girls worked hard and improved,” Palisades coach Robert Silvers said. “I’m really proud of them.”
Palisades and Granada Hills have mixed to win the last 25 higher division crowns (14 by Palisades and 11 by Granada Hills) and since the debut of the Open Division in 2017, Palisades has received the four-team bracket seven occasions and Granada Hills three.
Mihal and Trepanier dropped only 5 video games in three units, the Dolphins’ No. 2 pair of Brienne Dominguez and Nina Arasteh swept 7-5, 6-4, 6-1 and the third tandem of McKenna Adham and Sonia Shirley sandwiched a pair of 6-4 wins around a 6-3 defeat to the Highlanders’ No.1 workforce of Iris Huang and Christina Surmabukian.
Granada Hills High’s No. 2 singles participant Ayah Vilien hits a forehand return Wednesday at Balboa Sports Center.
(Steve Galluzzo / For The Times)
The colleges cut up the 16 singles units (each price one level). The Dolphins’ No. 1 participant Aila Monahan and No. 2 participant Charlie Roberts each received three units before being subbed out for the last spherical with a second straight title already secure.
Palisades ended Granada Hills’ three-peat bid with a 25-4.5 finals win last fall.
“We expect to play Pali in the finals every year and it’s always a good match,” Granada Hills coach Troy Aiken said.
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