County teams in action: 3
County teams seeded: 1 - No. 1 Valencia
County match ups: 0
Toughest draw: Cypress - would play No. 2 seed Valencia/V in second round
Thursday's matches (start time 2 pm unless noted)
* indicates home team
No. 1 Valencia* (Empire No. 1) vs. West Ranch (foothill No. 2)
Ranchos Alamitos* (Garden Grove No. 1) vs. South Pasadena (Rio Honda No. 3)
County teams in action: 18
County teams seeded: 2 - No. 1 Corona del Mar; No. 2 Dana Hills
County match ups: 6 - Laguna Hills/Santa Margarita; Sunny Hills/Laguna Beach; University/Fullerton; Woodbridge/Capistrano Valley; San Clemente/Estancia; Corona del Mar/Calvary Chapel
Toughest Draw: Calvary Chapel (plays top seed Corona del Mar) and Rosary (plays No. 4 seed Campbell Hall)
Thursday's matches (start time 2 pm unless noted)
* indicates home team
No. 1 Corona del Mar* (Pacific Coast No. 1) vs. Calvary Chapel (Orange Coast No. 3)
Orange Lutheran* (Trinity No. 2) vs. Mira Costa (Bay No. 3)
Northwood* (Sea View No. 2) vs. Brentwood (Olympic No. 3)
Troy* (Freeway No. 1) vs. Simi Valley (Marmonte No. 3)
Harvard-Westlake* (Mission No. 1) vs. Huntington Beach (Sea View No. 3)
San Clemente* (South Coast No. 2) vs. Estancia (Orange Coast No. 2)
No. 4 Campbell Hall* (Olympic No. 1) vs. Rosary (Trinity No. 3)
Woodbridge* (Sea View No. 1) vs. Capistrano Valley (South Coast No. 3)
University* (Pacific Coast No. 2) vs. Fullerton (Freeway No. 2)
Laguna Beach* (Orange Coast No. 1) vs. Sunny Hills (Freeway No. 3)
Santa Margarita* (Trinity No. 1) vs. Laguna Hills (Pacific Coast No. 3)
No. 2 Dana Hills* (South Coast No. 1) vs. Westlake (Marmonte No. 4)
County teams in action: 6
Seeded county teams: 0
County match ups: 1 - El Dorado/Los Alamitos
Toughest draw: El Dorado/Los Alamitos winner plays No. 2 Beverly Hills
Thursday's matches (2 pm start times unless noted)
* indicates home team
El Modena* (Century No. 2) vs. Santa Monica (Ocean No. 2)
Newport Harbor* (Sunset No. 1) vs. Vista Murrieta (Southwestern No. 3)
No. 3 Dos Pueblos* (Channel No. 2) vs. Esperanza (Sunset No. 2)
Yucaipa* (Citrus Belt No. 1) vs. Villa Park (Century No. 3)
El Dorado* (Century No. 1) vs. Los Alamitos (Sunset No. 3)
Division V wild card
(Matches at 2 p.m. unless noted)
* indicates home team
Magnolia (Orange League No. 3) vs. Beaumont (Mountain Pass No. 2)*
Western (Orange No. 2)* vs. Banning (Mountain Pass No. 4)
Division III wild card
(Matches at 2 p.m. unless noted)
Garden Grove (Garden Grove No. 2)* vs. Gahr (San Gabriel Valley No. 3)
La Quinta (Garden Grove No. 3)* vs. Hart (Foothill No. 3)
Kennedy (Empire No. 3) vs. St. Bonaventure (Tri-Valley No. 3)*
By CHRIS TOBOLSKI
OCVarsity staff
Who is No. 1 in Orange County girls tennis this year?
An answer to the county's great debate is near, with the CIF playoffs beginning with Tuesday's wild card rounds.
Beckman's top singles player junior Megan Heneghan defended her Pacific Coast League singles championship with a 6-2, 6-4 victory over Corona del Mar's junior Melissa Matsuoka on Thursday afternoon at Beckman High.
In the doubles final, Corona del Mar's Kelli Feeley and Karen Ishii beat teammates Danielle Kaiden and Lindsay Zotovich 7-5, 2-6, 7-5.
Loara's Jennifer Cornea outlasted Valencia's Sarah Blair, 6-1, 5-7, 7-5, to take the Empire League singles championship Wednesday evening at the Anaheim Tennis Center.
The Dolphins, ranked No. 2 in the county, won individual league championships in both singles and doubles on Wednesday at the South Coast League finals, held at Laguna Niguel Racquet Club.
Dana Hills doubles team Brynn Boren and Kristina Smith are the defending CIF Division I champs in doubles. They lost in the doubles finals as sophomores.
If they were to repeat as doubles champs in CIF this year, they would be the first pair to win back-to-back titles since Pacific's Carol Christian and Pat Shellhammer did it in 1978-79. The last repeat champions before Christian and Shellhammer happened in 1928-29. Also, by reaching the finals, Brynn and Smith would become the first-ever pair to play in three straight finals. Other players have played in three straight finals, but not with the same partner for all three.
Dana Hills' Brynn Boren and Kristina Smith won their first two matches at Tuesday's South Coast League finals at Laguna Niguel Racquet Club.
Boren and Smith are the defending Division I CIF doubles champions, and finished runners up two seasons ago.
The pair defeated Tesoro's Kelsey Linton and Melany Stransky 6-0, 6-0 to reach Wednesday's semifinals. Smith and Boren face teammates Avriel Tomaiko and Karley Pletcher in that match.
"To defend our title would be cool to do," Smith said.
CIF-SS COACHES' RANKINGS
(Updated Nov. 3)
Division I
1. Corona del Mar
2. Dana Hills
3. Palos Verdes
4. University
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