Rainy weather forced players indoors for Saturday’s girls tennis Stevenson Sectional.
Matches originally scheduled to be played at Vernon Hills Athletic Complex were moved to the Libertyville Club (singles) and College Park Athletic Club (doubles) in Bannockburn.
The final result was, as expected, a fourth consecutive team sectional championship for Stevenson.
“We’re lucky to have good players that are committed to the program and play the entire season through,” Patriots coach Tom Stanhope said. “Today they get rewarded for it.”
The top four players in doubles and singles qualified for next weekend’s state tournament.
Stevenson captured the doubles title. The No. 1-seeded tandem of freshman Zoe Taylor and senior Kaylin Dong defeated Stevenson’s No. 2 seed, freshman Katherine Harvey and junior Vinaya Rao, 7-5, 7-5.
Barrington’s top team of junior Anna Donoghue and senior Addie Hirsch made the cut, as did the Fillies’ all-freshman second team of Nidhi Jha and Paige Broustis.
On the singles side, Barrington’s Michelle Linden pulled the upset of the tournament in the semifinals. The junior defeated previously unbeaten Kendall Kirsch of Stevenson 1-6, 6-1, 6-2. Palatine freshman Asuka Kawai beat Linden in straight sets, 6-2, 6-3, to win the singles sectional title.
Kawai, Linden, Kirsch and Stevenson senior Zoe Manion are the four singles state qualifiers.
