POULSBO — Sequim’s Tiffany Lam and Amara Gonzalez both qualified for the West Central District III girls tennis tournament, finishing fifth and sixth at the Olympic League tournament this weekend.
Meanwhile, the Sequim doubles team of Kristina Prorek and Sasha Yada also qualified for district by finishing sixth.
Port Angeles’ Cayleigh Alward and Abby Riffle did the best for the Roughriders, winning two matches and losing a pair of three-set matches, coming up one win short of making it to district.
Lam and Gonzalez both made it to the league semifinals. Lam beat Serena Hinshaw of Bainbridge 6-1, 6-1, then beat Katherine Walker of Bainbridge 7-6, 6-1 to make it to the semifinals.
Lam then faced Teagan DeVries of North Kitsap, losing 6-0, 6-0. DeVries, who was second in the state last year, went on to take the league championship, winning all of her matches by the score of 6-0, 6-0.
After losing to Annabelle Waldman of Olympic, that put Lam in the fifth-sixth place match against Gonzalez. Lam won on a medical default.
Gonzalez got to the semifinals by beating Noelle Oborholtzer of North Kitsap 6-2, 6-3 and Annabelle Waldman of Olympic 6-2, 6-3. She lost in the semis to Cece Combs of Bainbridge 6-3, 6-2, then had to drop her next two matches due to a medical default.
Prorek and Yada had a number of three-set matches. They started off beating the Port Angeles team of Alward/Riffle 6-2, 1-6, 6-4, then lost in the second round to Bainbridge’s Malia Lemieux and Elle Schuchman 6-0, 6-0. Lemieux and Schuchman went on to win the league title.
Prorek and Yada won their third match, coming from behind to beat their Sequim teammates Sydney Thomas-Harris and Kendall Day by the score of 1-6, 6-2, 10-8. Thomas-Harris and Day had earlier beaten Audrey Rudd and Pyper Alton of Port Angeles 6-1, 6-3.
Prorek/Yada then had another tough win, getting past Kaylee Cushman and Maynella Samonta of Olympic by the score of 7-6, 3-6, 10-4. They won their final match by default over Alward and Riffle.
Alward and Riffle had a pair of wins during the tournament, beating Olympic’s Lola Ramirez and Ava Vivas 6-2, 6-1 and outlasting Bainbridge’s Eleanor Lee and Marta Horens 6-2, 5-7, 10-5.
