BURLINGTON – Greensboro Page ran its string of state titles to four in a row with a convincing 5-1 victory over East Chapel Hill in the North Carolina High School Athletic Association state 4-A women’s dual team tennis championships on Saturday at the Burlington Tennis Center.
Page won the first five singles events and ended its season with a perfect 20-0. East Chapel Hill, which had ended Raleigh Broughton’s string of 12 straight trips to the finals by winning the Eastern Regional title on Thursday, ended 20-3.
Charlotte Catholic earned the 3-A title, blanking Eastern Wayne by a 5-0 count en route to its seventh all-time women’s dual team tennis state crown. Catholic ended its season 20-5 while Eastern Wayne, in its first final ever, wound up 17-2.
Both of the afternoon matches in the lower classifications were 5-4 affairs decided by the number three doubles event. In the 2-A final, Greene Central outlasted defending state champion Salisbury 5-4 when Elizbaeth McLawhorn and Abby Sugg teamed to beat the Salisbury duo of Brooke Johnson and Shea Comadoll 10-4 in a pro set.
Greene Central finished 23-2 and dealt Salisbury its first loss in 23 dual matches.
In the 1-A classification, Durham’s North Carolina School of Science and Math nipped Bishop McGuinness by a 5-4 count, as Meghan McCann and Sarika Mendu of NCSSM downed the Bishop McGuinness pair of Molly Riazzi and Rebecca McCuniff 10-6 in the decisive third doubles.
McGuinness suffered its only loss of the season after 18 dual-team wins while NCSM finished 22-1 overall.
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NORTH CAROLINA HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION
18th ANNUAL WOMEN’S DUAL TEAM TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS
Burlington Tennis Center, Burlington
CLASS 4-A: GREENSBORO PAGE 5, EAST CHAPEL HILL 1
Singles: Caroline Newman (P) def. Jennifer Huang 6-1, 6-1; Jennifer Stone (P) def. Tess Darling 6-2, 6-0; Christin Newman (P) def. Megan Huang 6-2, 6-1; Jennifer Ansari (P) def. Tamara Hill 6-4, 6-2; Madison Owsley (P) def. Tessa Johnson 6-1, 6-3; Emma Shaw (ECH) def. Melissa Addington 6-1, 6-1.
Doubles: not played with championship decided.
CLASS 3-A: CHARLOTTE CATHOLIC 5, EASTERN WAYNE 0
Singles; Julia Paulson (CC) def. Lindsey Frederick 6-0, 6-0; Kourtney Woodward (CC) def. Lauren Bynum 6-1. 6-0; Sarah Trautmann (CC) def. Mollie Musgrave 6-3, 6-2; Tori Anderson (CC) def. Casie Musgrave 6-1, 6-1; Ashley Verhein (CC) vs. Danielle Daniel (EW) did not finish with championship decided; Cameron Grist (CC) def. Elizabeth Borden 6-0,. 6-0.
Doubles: not played with championship decided.
CLASS 2-A: GREENE CENTRAL 5, SALISBURY 4
Singles: Puja Patel (GC) def. Hannah Lebowitz 6-0, 7-5; Casey Collins (S) def. Ashley Grant 6-0, 6-0; Susie Wear (S) def. Elizabeth McLawhorn 6-1, 6-1; Kristin Meyerhoeffer (S) def. Cally Hudson 6-1, 6-3; Abby Sugg (GC) def. Brooke Johnson 6-4, 2-6, (10-6), Lauren Carraway (GC) def. Shea Comadoll 6-4, 6-0.
Doubles: Patel-Carraway (GC) def Collins-Wear 10-6 pro set; Lebowitz-Meyerhoeffer (S) def. Grant-Hudson 10-0; McLawhorn-Sugg (GC) def. Johnson-Comadoll 10-4.
CLASS 1-A: DURHAM N.C. SCIENCE AND MATH 5, KERNERSVILLE BISHOP MCGUINNESS 4
Singles: Liana Roux (NCSSM) def. Maggie Ronan 6-2, 7-6(3); Amy Bahr (NCSSM) def. Anna Vargas 6-1, 7-6 (1), Kelsey Callaghan (BM) def. Meghan McCann 6-1, 6-1; Molly Riazzi (BM) def. Amy Kim 6-0, 6-1; Marisa Lee (NCSSM) def. Elle Merrill 6-4, 6-3; Sarika Mendu (NCSSM) def. Rebecca McCuniff 6-2, 6-1.
Doubles: Ronan-Callaghan (BM) def. Roux-Bahr 10-3; Anna Vargas-Elle Merrill (BM) def. Kim-Lee 10-1; McCann-Mendu (NCSSM) def. Molly Riazzi-Rebecca McCuniff 10-6.
