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Prep tennis: Dramatic win for Dimond, easy win for West

Dimond 5, South 4

The Dimond Lynx eked out a 5-4 win over South in the closest tennis match of the Cook Inlet Conference season.

Four of the nine matches went to tiebreakers, including the boys doubles match between South's Thomas Hanks and Alex Wong and Dimond's Noah Alexander and Kyle Fox. Hanks-Wong rallied from a first-set loss to pull out a 2-6, 6-3, 17-15 victory.

South won three of the four matches requiring tiebreakers, but it wasn't enough to down the Lynx, whose victories included straight-set singles victories from Jaden Hodgson, Cole Fox and Saki Kobayashi.

Boys singles No. 1 — Jaden Hodgson (D) d Joseph Hemry (So) 6-2, 6-2.

Boys singles No. 2 — Cole Fox (D) d Lian Lincoln (So) 6-2, 7-6.

Girls singles No. 1 — Zoey Flynn (So) d Tami Suenram (D) 6-0, 6-1.

Girls singles No. 2 — Saki Kobayashi (D) d Sophia Sanders (So) 6-0, 6-0.

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Boys doubles No. 1 — Thomas Hanks/Alex Wong (So) d Noah Alexander/Kyle Fox (D) 2-6, 6-3, 17-15.

Boys doubles No. 2 — Jack Sedor/Alex Ahn (D) d Brendon Hayhurst/Joseph Kemper (So) 6-1, 3-6, 10-6.

Girls doubles No. 1 — Tyanna Baker/Shannon Chan (So) d Emily Carey/Lauren Cole 6-3, 2-6, 10-5.

Girls doubles No. 2 — Taylor Matthew/Rizka Aprilia (So) d Roslyn McCormack/Abby Stahl (D) 1-6, 6-4, 10-7.

Mixed doubles — Derek Stone/Caroline Requa (D) d Thomas Johnson/Maddie Webster (So) 6-1, 6-3.

West 8, East 1

West won all of the doubles matches Saturday in an 8-1 CIC tennis win over East.

The doubles teams of Chas Anderson-Seneca Scott and Katie Brown-Alli Haynes both blanked their opponents, 6-0, 6-0.

Boys singles No. 1 — Eli Neslund (E) d. Kyle Winkler (W) 6-0, 6-0

Boys singles No. 2 — Javier Acura (W) d. Hayden Ashley (E) 6-3, 4-6, 10-7

Girls singles No. 1 — Elana Fortson (W) d. Abby McDiffett (E) 6-2, 6-0

Girls singles No. 2 — Kalena Weimer (W) won by forfeit

Boys doubles No. 1 — Chas Anderson/Seneca Scott (W) d. Marco Rivera/David Taylor (E) 6-0, 6-0

Boys doubles No. 2 — Antonio Won/David Woo (W) d. Carter Epperson/Philip Bailey (E) 6-1, 6-1

Girls doubles No. 1 — Katie Brown/Alli Haynes (W) d. Laura Horton/Erica Williams (E) 6-0, 6-0

Girls doubles No. 2 — Savannah Paull/Nasim Falconer (W) d. Morgan Rice/Rachael Shanahan (E) 6-2, 6-0

Mixed doubles — Quentin Bidwell/Merryn Daniel (W) d. Robbie Brewer/Olivia Grant (E) 6-3, 6-1

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