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Brief: Girls’ tennis falls one tiebreaker short of Monta Vista

The Paly girls’ tennis team finished up an extremely close match against strong league competitor Monta Vista with a heartbreaking 4-3 loss after falling to unforced errors in a third set, 7-2 tiebreaker in the No. 3 doubles match. According to the Mercury News, the Monta Vista Matadors have been Central Coast Section (CCS) champions five times over the last nine years. The Matadors have continued to dominate the tennis courts in the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League (SCVAL) this year with a 15-0 overall record.

Despite strong, three-set performances by Aashli Bushiraja (’14) (No. 1 singles; 6-4, 6-7, 10-3), Felicia Wang (’14) (No. 2 singles; 6-2, 6-1) and Tiffany Nguyen (’13) and Julianne Le (’14) (No. 1 doubles; 6-1, 4-6, 6-3), the Lady Vikes dropped both their No. 3 singles and No. 4 doubles matches 0-6, 0-6. The 0-6, 1-6 loss for No. 2 doubles Hollie Kool (’14) and Kelsey Wang (’16) turned the over two hour-long match in 90 degree sun into a fight to the finish.

No. 3 doubles Madeline Lee (’14) and Katy Abbott (’13) came back from a 2-6 deficit in set one to even out the match 6-3 in set two, but the tension only began there. After tying the score 4-4 in set three, the matched moved into deuce not once, but twice, and finally into a tiebreaker two hours in. But in the race to reach seven points first, Lee and Abbott fell behind with unforced errors, and their opponents Katherine Guo (’15) and Tiffany Liah (’13) quickly capitalized and finished with a decisive win, 7-2. This win marked Monta Vista’s eighth straight win this season, making its league record 8-0, dropping Paly’s record to 2-4.

Paly plays Castilleja at home tomorrow at 3:30 in another of its non-league matches; the Lady Vikes hope to bring up their overall record to 10-2.

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Hilda Huang, Business Manager
Hilda Huang is a senior and joined The Viking in her junior year because of her love for athletics. After serving as a copy editor her junior year, she is now a Business Manager along with fellow Viking Michael Strong. Huang dove varsity for the Swimming and Diving team and was a part of the gymnastics team her sophomore year, but was unable to compete due to injury. Awarded 1st place in the 2012 Art Rosenbaum Scholarship Award for her story "Running After Dark," she is also an avid musician and a huge USA Gymnastics (go Fierce Five!) fan. Follow @hildaphu on twitter, or find more stuff about her at http://curiosity.discovery.com/user/hilda-huang/bio and http://bigthink.com/hildahuang.

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