The Las Vegas Review-Journal’s 2015 All-State Girls Tennis team.
Girls Tennis
State tournament championships and record-setting performances aren’t supposed to be bittersweet. Yet, Palo Verde sisters Chloe and Sophie Henderson couldn’t help feel a little sadness mixed in with a lot of joy Saturday.
Clark’s Marcus Pasimio and Christian Ong were on different sides of the net in last year’s Division I-A Southern Region boys doubles final.
The doubles teams of Miranda Sanders and Nina Dreyer, and Poleth Rodriguez and Sharrah Kenyon each went 2-0 on Wednesday as Mojave’s girls clinched the first postseason tennis berth in school history with an 11-5 win at Sierra Vista.
Ryan Pappas went 3-0 in singles Monday to help Silverado’s boys tennis team to a 10-8 win at Las Vegas.
The doubles team of Donovan Evangelio and Justin Lindsay won the final point of regulation to force a tiebreaker, and Faith Lutheran’s boys tennis team posted a 10-9 win at Spring Valley on Thursday.
Filip Bosnajak and Jovan Lubara went 3-0 in doubles Friday to lead Durango’s boys tennis team to a 10-8 win at Shadow Ridge.
The doubles teams of Laini George and Morgan Hawkins, and Abby Wilson and Caitlyn Stevenson each went 3-0 on Wednesday to lead Foothill’s girls tennis team to a 10-8 win at Basic.
Green Valley’s girls tennis team swept the nine singles sets Thursday en route to a 12-6 win at Coronado.
Billy Crawford and Tristin Hansel each went 3-0 in singles Tuesday as host Foothill’s boys tennis team stunned 10-time defending Sunrise Region champion Coronado, 10-8.
Caitlyn Stevenson was 2-0 in singles, and the doubles teams of Breanna Derflinger and Katey Roquemore, and Morgan Hawkins and Alyssa Miele each went 2-0 on Friday to help host Foothill’s girls tennis team down Rancho, 11-7.
Paige Smith and Andrea Busicescu each went 2-0 in singles Wednesday to help Clark’s girls tennis team to a 10-8 win at Bonanza.