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| Katie Uszakiewicz and Katie Brown helped Sacred Heart sweep doubles in Thursday’s NVL girls tennis semifinal against St. Paul at Fulton Park. The Hearts won 5-2. (Copyright, Sports on CT-69) |
Thursday’s Sacred Heart-St. Paul NVL girls tennis tournament semifinal came down to doubles, and the Hearts won out at Fulton Park.
Sacred Heart swept doubles, won the match 5-2, and moved on to the NVL final, where it will meet Naugatuck at a site, time and place to be announced. The Greyhounds took out Wolcott 5-2 in the other semifinal.
The doubles teams were sent onto the courts in the order of numbers 3, 2 and 1. Sacred Heart’s No. 3 team of Hannah Dombrowski and Najma Braddock defeated St. Paul’s Alexia Carabetta and Tessa Rogers 8-6. At No. 2, doubles, Katie Uszakiewicz and Katie Brown beat Lizzie Etter and Grace Carabetta 8-5. In the No. 1 doubles match, it was Alexa Gallino and Nhi Nguyen by a score of 8-4 over Orenda Huang and Caroline Badal.
In singles, St. Paul’s Victoria Kilbourne had to battle through some tough games against Colleen Flanagan, but prevailed 8-3 at No. 1. The Falcons also took No. 2 singles with Kaite Pauloz’s tough 8-6 win over Nellie Drewry.
Sacred Heart picked up a singles win at No. 3 with Ava Longo’s 8-4 tally against Ximena Varela-Marin. At No. 4, Siobhan Gilmore of the Hearts defeated Carina Fiscella 8-1.
GALLERY: Here are my photos from Thursday’s NVL semifinal.
Wolcott knocked out of NVLs
The Eagles had to play a doubleheader on Thursday at Woodland Regional High School. Wolcott took down the host Hawks in the first matchup, but fell 5-2 to top-seeded Naugatuck in the second half of the double dip. Beacon Falls was hit hard by a tornado on Tuesday, so the Wolcott-Woodland match had to be postponed.
Edona Bytyqi won No. 1 singles for the Eagles by a score of 8-3 and Bella Piacentini took No. 4 singles by a tally of 8-4.
