Section 1 continues to enjoy tremendous success in women’s tennis.
Section 1 recently won the state doubles title and the large and small team state titles, while also finishing third in individual doubles.
Playing at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York, Byram Hills and Horace Greeley continued an incredible run as Section 1 swept the state’s small and large school girls championships for the fourth time in the last four years when the team championships were contested. .
It came days after Greeley’s tandem of Alliison Tsai and Michelle Rosenblit won the state doubles title with a convincing 6-1, 6-1 victory over Great Neck South’s Madison Lee and Gabrielle Villegas of Section 8 of Nassau County.
The doubles win was especially notable since Tsai and Rosenblitt qualified for states as the final doubles team in Section 1, finishing third at sectionals.
Team Greeley’s gold medal was a first for the program.
That’s not the case for Byram Hills’ small-school championship, which was the Bobcats’ third in the last four years.
Byram Hills, which had won the small-school sectional title this year, beating Edgemont 3-0, and then beat Johnson City of Section 4 5-0, then Spackenkill of Section 9 5-0 in regional play of the state, was also dominant in the state semifinals and final.
The Bobcats, who were the tournament’s top seed, blanked Section 5 Honeoye-Falls Lima, 5-0, in the semifinals, then beat Section 11 Long’s No. 2 seed Bayport-Blue Point Island, 4-1.
At the championship, Jenna Kleynerman of Byram Hills won a three-set match at No. 1 singles. Katherine Shil and Emerson Pace won first doubles, Jordyn Bernstein and Dani Goldman won second doubles and the Bobcats’ Eliza Moy and Anisha Bobra won third doubles.
The Quakers, who dominated last year’s state big-school team champion Scarsdale for the sectional crown, whitewashed Section 4’s Vestal and Section 9’s Warwick Valley 7- 0 in regional play, before also beating Section 2’s Bethlehem by the same score in the state semifinals.
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In the final, top-seeded Greeley defeated No. 2 seed Syosset of Section 8, 5-2.
This time in singles, Tsai won the second singles match in straight sets, Daniella Rosenbilt didn’t lose a single match winning the third singles match and Greeley won three out of four doubles matches.
Those wins went to Meadow Zhang and Scarlett McFadzen at No. 1 doubles, Isla Gibb and Sadie McFadzen at No. 2 and Lia Yedid and Sophia Wang at No. 3.
Other results
Section 1 also won bronze in the state individual doubles competition, with one Section 1 team defeating another in the final.
The winner was Byram Hills as Shil and Kleynerman defeated Isabel Lin and Kay Cottrell of Scarsdale 6-2, 7-6 in the bronze medal match.
Keio’s Sakura Hino, who made school history with her Section 1 girls’ singles championship, won the bronze medal match but finished fourth in the tournament, losing 6-3, 6- 2 against Leyla Tozin of Section 5’s Brighton High School.
Nancy Haggerty covers cross country, track and field, field hockey, skiing, basketball, women’s lacrosse and other sporting events for The Journal News/lohud. Follow her on Twitter at @HaggertyNancy.
This article originally appeared in the Rockland/Westchester Journal News: Section 1 girls’ tennis: Greeley, Byram Hills win state team titles
