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Sports
Thursday, 07 April 2011 07:38
By Rick Pedone
Sports Editor
Celebration’s boys clinched their second consecutive Orange Belt Conference tennis championship Monday by defeating St. Cloud, 5-2, at the St. Cloud courts. The Storm finished 6-0 against conference competition, 7-7 overall.
The Lady Storm also won, 6-1. Celebration is 5-0 in conference play with a postponed match against Harmony pending.
Both teams are competing today at the 3A District 13 tournament in Melbourne, along with local teams Harmony and Liberty.
Celebration’s boys won at No. 2 singles with Richard Cruz (6-0, 6-0), No. 3 with Jacob Gloddee (6-1, 6-0) and Luis Penagos (6-4, 6-3). Celebration won both doubles with Tyler Young and Cruz (8-4) at No. 1 and Gloddee-Penagos (8-1) at No. 2.
St. Cloud’s Trevor Foshee (6-0, 6-0) won No. 1 singles and Zack Hull (6-2, 6-1) won No. 5 singles.
Celebration’s girls won all matches except at No. 1 singles, where St. Cloud’s Amanda Pence defeated Anu Gupta, 6-0, 6-1.
Lexi Stephan won 6-0, 6-0 at No. 2 singles to run her record to 13-0 prior to Wednesday’s singles matches at the district tournament.
“She is a great athlete. She’s won against Viera, Melbourne, Circle Christian – that’s very good competition,” Coach Robert Tripp said. “She’s had a great season for us.”
Yuja Niruge (6-0, 6-0) won No. 3 singles, Kelsey Scurlock (6-0, 6-0) won No. 4 singles and Maria Caicedo (6-0, 6-0) won at No. 5.
Gupta and Caicedo (8-7, 8-6 tiebreaker) won No. 1 doubles, and Stephan-Scurlock (8-0) won at No. 2.
The No. 1 singles and doubles district champions advance to the state tournament in two weeks at Seminole County. The top two teams advance to regional play Tuesday.
Osceola and Gateway played at the 4A-8 district tournament at Vero Beach, which was rained out Tuesday and resumed Wednesday.
 

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