GIRLS’ TENNIS
CIF Individuals
NEWPORT BEACH — Estancia High senior Ellie Edles and Corona del Mar junior Melissa Matsuoka advanced to the Round of 16 after winning three matches Saturday.
To advance, Edles defeated Sage Hill junior Julia Blakeley in the third round, 6-4, 6-3, at the Balboa Bay Club Racquet Club. Matsuoka beat Ocean View’s Tiffany Mai, 3-6, 6-4, 10-8, in the third round.
Edles, the two-time Orange Coast League champion who’s bound for UC Davis, won her first two rounds with ease at Corona del Mar High, with a 6-0, 6-0 win over Rachelle Andra of Arlington and a 6-1, 6-3 victory against Mater Dei’s Neda Ghassemi.
Matsuoka, who finished second in the Pacific Coast League, won, 6-0, 6-0, against Savanna’s Jackie Cuevas in the first round and then beat Tiffany Cheng of St. Margaret’s, 6-2, 6-2.
Edels and Matsuoka will play Dec. 4 at Seal Beach Tennis Center vying to reach the semifinals the following day.
Blakeley, the Academy League champion, defeated Courtney Pattugalan of Northwood, 6-3, 6-3, in the first round, and swept Fairmont Prep’s Trisha Wang, 6-0, 6-0.
Corona del Mar’s two doubles teams both lost in the third round.
Senior Karen Ishii and junior Kelli Feeley lost to the second-seeded team of Jenna Glimp and Anna Tatsuno of Peninsula, 5-7, 4-6. Ishii and Feeley, the PCL champions, opened with a 6-0, 6-0 win over Arlington’s Laura Zirate and Davana Salgado of Arlington, 6-0, 6-0.
CdM seniors Lindsay Zotovich and Danielle Kaiden lost in the third round to Troy’s Allison Radde and Stephanie Hui, 4-6, 4-6. The CdM duo began the tournament with a 6-3, 6-0 win against Garden Grove’s Catherine Nguyen and Elizabeth Do.
Estancia’s Jennifer Johnston and Misha Brown, playing as alternates after a Laguna Beach team dropped out, lost to Maggie Le and Chelsea Logan of Cerritos, 5-7, 6-7 (5), in the first round.
Sage Hill senior Isa-Maria Taskinen and freshman Rian Billingsley were also eliminated in the first round after losing to El Dorado’s Sarty Adhikary and Emile Hechanova, 2-6, 3-6.
