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Crescenta Valley Girls' Varsity Tennis Buries Burroughs, 17-1

September 29, 2006|By Emin Avakian

The Crescenta Valley High girls' varsity tennis team continued its winning ways and recorded another Pacific League victory in Tuesday's 17-1 match against Burroughs.

The Falcons (8-1, 5-1 in league) have not lost a match since losing to Arcadia 12-6, but Crescenta Valley Coach Tom Gossard was most impressed in his team after dominating the Indians.

"Best match we have played this season," he said.

Crescenta Valley got good efforts from doubles teams Lindsay Walker and Ashlee Chan, Anna Kim and Stephanie Chung and Kisa Ito and Ani Ebrahamian.

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Walter and Chan made quick work of Indians' doubles teams Nicole Carothers and Jenny Dao, Jennifer Auproux and Kendall Chapshaw and Elizabeth Gonzalez and Scout Hammond 7-5, 6-1, 6-0.

Kim and Chung were tested but swept three sets, 7-5, 6-3, 7-5. Ito and Ebrahamian had trouble getting past Auproux and Chapshaw and Gonzalez and Hammond, 7-5, 6-4.

In singles competition, Natalie Abou-Chakra and Betty Ionescu also swept. Chakra defeated Indians singles players Melanie Irinco, Sarah Aguilar, and Kelly Bonner, 7-5,6-1, 6-2. Ionescu lost only three games and cruised 6-0, 6-2, 6-1.

"Once I had momentum, I got aggressive," said Ionescu. "That made it easier to win the points."

Carole Kim won two sets for the Falcons, and dropped a set to Irinco, 2-6.

"We came out ready to play," Gossard said. "We're tough to beat whenever we're ready to play."

"We got outplayed, that's all," Burroughs Coach Roy Bernardt said.

In an earlier nonleague match on Monday against Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy at the Fremont Tennis Center, the Falcons blanked the Tologs 18-0.

Abou-Chakra led the singles action by winning all three sets, 6-0, 6-1 and 6-1.

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