Valen Trujillo swept to a second straight singles crown at Wednesday’s Olympic League tournament. (John Fisken photo)
They dominated the regular season, they dominated the postseason tournament.
Even with the schedule changing almost at the last second, with the tourney moving up a day and the start time shifting like sand at high tide, the Coupeville High School netters never blinked.
Holding serve, the Wolves swept both the singles and doubles crowns at Wednesday’s Olympic League Tournament in Chimacum and will send six girls to districts.
That event, with the top four from the Olympic League meeting the top four of the Nisqually League, goes down May 18 at the Sprinker Tennis Complex in Tacoma.
Making the next jump will be a hard one, though, as District 3 only gets one entry to state in odd numbered years.
Come back in 2018, and even-year rules will apply, kicking on two entries in both singles and doubles.
To punch their ticket to Eastern Washington, and the sun-baked courts of the state tourney, a Wolf singles player or doubles duo will have to win three straight matches without a loss to claim a district title.
Lose in the championship match and you’re the alternate (and start asking the winner repeatedly if they’re sure they’re feeling alright, cause they kind of sound bronchial every time they talk, and you’re just really, really concerned…).
Fall before that third match and you’ll play on in the loser brackets of the double-elimination district tourney, but with no hope of getting a sniff of state.
Unless that bronchial infection really spreads.
Wednesday, it was déjà vu for the Wolves, as senior singles ace Valen Trujillo and doubles duo Payton Aparicio and Sage Renninger repeated as league champs.
The junior combo are undefeated this season, sitting at 11-0 headed into districts. Renninger is 12-0, having won a regular-season match with lil’ sis Avalon when Aparicio was out of town.
Districts will be a family affair, as freshman Zoe Trujillo and Avalon Renninger and foreign exchange student Fanny Deprelle round out the Wolf contingent advancing.
Coupeville claimed first and fourth in both singles and doubles, while Klahowya netted second and third in singles (Hailey Sargent and Sydney Jackson) and second in doubles (Marianne Marker/Taylor Bruce.)
Chimacum advances one doubles team — Gladys Hitt and Christine Bell — after the duo claimed third.
Complete CHS results:
Singles:
Valen Trujillo:
Beat Sophie Koveleski (K) 8-0
Beat Fanny Deprelle (CP) 4-3 (retired)
Beat Hailey Sargent (K) 6-0, 6-2
Fanny Deprelle:
Beat Amelia Breithaupt (PT) 8-5
Lost to Valen Trujillo (CP) 4-3 (retired)
Lost to Sydney Jackson (K) walkover
Bree Daigneault:
Lost to Hailey Sargent (K) 8-0
Doubles:
Payton Aparicio/Sage Renninger:
Beat Kelisha Harris/Hannah Catt (K) 8-0
Beat Gladys Hitt/Christine Bell (CH) 6-3, 6-0
Beat Marianne Marker/Taylor Bruce (K) 6-2, 6-2
Zoe Trujillo/Avalon Renninger:
Beat Amy Plastow/Marley Music (CH) 8-1
Lost to Marianne Marker/Taylor Bruce (K) 6-0, 6-3
Lost to Gladys Hitt/Christine Bell (CH) 7-5, 4-6, 10-8
Maggie Crimmins/Kameryn St Onge:
Lost to Marianne Marker/Taylor Bruce (K) 8-1
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