Piedmont High School’s girls tennis team lost a pair of close matches sandwiched around a victory over Berkeley.
On Oct. 14, the Highlanders lost to visiting Alameda, 4-3. Piedmont took three of four singles matches but was swept in doubles.
The Highlanders’ Ella Ruthven shut out Natalie Wong at No. 1 singles, 6-0, 6-0. Maddy Huynh beat Lucille Clasen at No. 3, 6-1, 6-1. Leela Sivakumar downed Natalie Gilbert at No. 4, 6-3, 6-2. Shilla Smith got the win for Berkeley at No. 2, defeating Faith Chin.
Sophie Featherstone and Zoey Jalleh beat Emma Chan and Chiara Silvio at No. 1 doubles, 7-6 (6), 6-3. Naomi Lin and Caroline Sue outlasted Ella Thomasson and Mai Pham at No. 2, 5-7, 6-2, 10-6. Morgan Takao and Nora Lloyd defeated Amelia Oldrin and Layla Reed-Miguel at No. 3, 6-3, 6-3.
On Oct. 15, Piedmont swept host Berkeley, 7-0. Ruthven beat Erin Lao at No. 1 singles, 6-3, 6-0. Chin shut out Rowan Cranley at No. 2, 6-0, 6-0. Huynh did the same to Charlotte Cranley at No. 3. Sivakumar beat Cid Frydman at No. 4, 6-0, 7-5.
Chan and Silvio defeated Cecilia Grant and Cambria Frozena at No. 1 doubles, 6-0, 6-1. Thomasson and Pham beat Francesca Bertolini and Eliza Braun at No. 2, 6-0, 6-0. Amalia Angulo and Penelope Welch downed Marilyn Whiteside and Isa Bijl Thompson at No. 3, 6-4, 6-4.
On Oct. 20, host Bishop O’Dowd edged Piedmont, 4-3. Huynh had the only Highlander win in singles, beating Maria Galofre at No. 3, 6-0, 6-3. The Dragons’ Edith Kevane outlasted Ruthven at No. 1, 6-1, 5-7, 10-2. Ellena Kau defeated Chin at No. 2, 6-1, 6-4. Fiona Wood squeaked by Sivakumar at No. 4, 3-6, 6-4, 10-5.
Chan and Silvio edged Ayla Akcaoglu and Sloane Kau at No. 1 doubles in the day’s best match, 7-5, 6-7 (3), 10-5. Thomasson and Pham beat Avani Shah and Vivienne Manning at No. 2, 6-1, 6-1. Bishop O’Dowd’s Essa Sims and Quinn Wood downed Reed-Miguel and Paige Chin at No. 3, 6-2, 6-7 (3), 10-6.