Surprising South wins tennis nailbiter

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Tony Ciniglio
on November 13, 2008 6:19 PM | | Comments (0) |

From wild-card team to contender, the South Torrance girls tennis team posted a dramatic 76-70 victory on games after tying previously unbeaten Whittier, 9-9, in the first round of the CIF Southern Section Division IV playoffs.

South trailed, 9-7, heading into the final two sets, including a 69-64 deficit on games, so South needed two lopsided victories to draw even and win on games.

Esther Kim posted a convincing 6-0 victory over top singles player Jessica Guerrero, and freshman Gracie Davis sealed it with a 6-1 win over No. 2 singles player Gabby Juarez.

"Esther Kim was huge for us, and Gracie Davis found a way to battle it out and get a big win for us," South coach Kevin May said. "We stuck it out today. I think the tough competition in the Pioneer League helped prepare us for this match."

Kim and Davis swept their three singles sets for South, which plays  the Cerritos-Templeton winner on Saturday.

Whittier, the Del Rio League champ, finishes at 15-1.

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Tony Ciniglio is an 11-year veteran at the Daily Breeze and is the Prep-JC Editor. Ciniglio graduated from Malibu High (home of the mighty Sharks) in 1997 as part of the school's second graduating class before attending powerhouse Pepperdine (Class of 2001), thus shattering any reader's preconceived notion that he has any personal bias when it comes to South Bay Preps.

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Dave Thorpe was a self-proclaimed, slightly above average baseball player back in the day at Torrance's West High, who went on and had an unspectacular, injury-riddled stint as a third baseman at El Camino College. Trading bat for pen, Thorpe wrote sports for the Long Beach Union newspaper at Long Beach State University, then worked as the sports editor for the Palos Verdes Peninsula News for seven years before climbing down the Hill to the Daily Breeze, where he has been a sports writer covering local sports for more than two years.

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