In a remarkable turn of events, two Lyme-Old Lyme Girls Tennis doubles teams faced each other in yesterday’s Shoreline Championship match. After a thrilling contest, #1 seeds Livie Bass and Alexis Fenton defeated their team-mates and #3 seeds Aggie Hunt and Beatrice Hunt 6-2, 6-4.
This was the second year in a row for Fenton to win a shoreline doubles championship.
Pulling off a major tournament upset, the Hunt girls had defeated the #2 seeds from Westbrook 7-5, 6-3 to reach the finals,
Demonstrating their prowess in the field, Lyme-Old Lyme had a representative in every semifinal match played (singled and doubles) in the tournament.
In the singles games, Abby Sicuranza and Sam Tan both lost respectively in their semifinals. Tan was defeated by the #1 seed from Coginchaug 0-6, 1-6 while Sicuranza fell 1-6, 6-3, 5-7 to the #2 seed from Westbrook in a fiercely-contested match.
Callie Bass lost in the semifinals to the #3 seed from Westbrook 2-6, 2-6.
Elaina Morosky won the ¾ singles tournament in an extremely close and exciting match 2-6, 7-6, 7-6.