Notre Dame juniors Bella Zalocha and Alyssa Capuana teamed up to win a Section III Class C doubles title.
Zalocha and Capuana, who played more singles than doubles in the Tri-Valley League during the regular season, beat Notre Dame teammates Emma and Lily Johnson, as well as Mira Zhang and Amy Walsh of Manlius-Pebble Hill 2-0 on the first day of school. C, and won 5-7, 6-4, 6-4 against Rose Fallon and Ferial Migeed, another Manlius-Pebble Hill pair, in the final the next day.
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Amitees Fazeli of Manlius-Pebble Hill won the Class C singles title.
Baldwinsville’s Mira Nadzan and the doubles team of Elaina Nesbitt and Sonia Nadzan won the Class A titles, and Jamesville-DeWitt’s Mona Farah and the Homer pair of Lauren Franco and Emma Effinger won in Class B.
Oneida heads to National Tennis Center for States
The Oneida Express are among eight teams gathering Friday at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing for the girls’ state team tennis semifinals and finals.
Oneida (20-1) is the No. 3 seed in Division II and will play first at 7:30 against Bayport-Blue Point, the No. 2 seed in Section XI on Long Island. Honeoye Falls-Lima of Section V and Byram Hills, the No. 1 seed and 2021 and 2022 state champion of Section I, are the other Division II semifinalists.
The winners of the semi-finals meet in the final at 1 p.m.
Oneida was defeated 5-0 by Bronxville, the eventual Section I champion, in last year’s semifinals, and Section VIII Friends Academy in 2021. The 2022 team was defeated in regionals by Section II Ichabod Crane.
The 2024 Express played its way back to the final four by defeating Section II Scotia-Glenville 3-2 in a regional game Oct. 26 at Central Park in Schenectady. Oneida swept three doubles matches and Scotia-Glenville won both singles matches, one in three sets after losing the first.
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