High School Roundup: CdM girls’ win PCL XC title

GIRLS’ CROSS COUNTRY

Pacific Coast League finals

ORANGE — Tess St. Geme finished second and helped lead Corona del Mar High to the title at Irvine Regional Park on Friday.

St. Geme finished in 17 minutes, 55 seconds. CdM scored 41 points, while Northwood finished wecond with 52 and Woodbridge third with 60.

Raquel Powers came in eighth in 18:22, followed by Kirsten Hansen in ninth in 18:24 and Jacqueline Choe in 10th in 18:25. Elin Wolker was 12th in 18:33.

CdM qualified for the CIF Southern Section Division 3 preliminaries Nov. 15 at Mt. San Antonio College.

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GIRLS’ TENNIS

Sage Hill 10, Santa Monica 8

The Lightning scored four set wins in the last round to stun Santa Monica and advance to Monday’s CIF Southern Section Division 2 quarterfinals.

Amira Tarsadia and Abby Ruck swept at No. 1 doubles.

No. 1 singles player Jaclyn Gerschultz, No. 2 Isabella Deckey and No. 3 Lauren Fishman each earned wins.

Sage Hill needed four wins because it would have lost on games if the match went to a tie.

Celine Wang/Crystal Yu went 1-1 before Yu was replaced by Maya Byrd in the last round for a win, and Tess Alexander and Marina Anderson took two of three, for a total of seven doubles wins.

Alexander and Anderson were down 0-3 in the last round before rolling off six games in a row to put Sage at nine wins. With Tarsadia/Ruck leading 5-2 it looked as if the Lightning were going to win. Santa Monica won two games in a row and led 15-40 to tie the set at 5-5. Sage saved three game points, had two match points before Tarsadia hit a winner down the line passing shot off a 13-ball rally to win the match.

Sage Hill most likely will play No. 2-seeded Murrieta Valley, winner of the Southwestern League, away on Monday.

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BOYS’ CROSS COUNTRY

Pacific Coast League finals

ORANGE — Corona del Mar High placed third and qualified for next week’s CIF Southern Section Division 3 preliminaries.

Woodbridge won with 32 points and Northwood was second with 47 points. CdM had 51.

Parker Nostrand led the Sea Kings with his third-place finish in 15:24. Matt Paragas was fifth in 15:42.

Leif Hellgren came in eighth in 15:48, Thomas Robertson was 10th in 16:05 and Kellen Givens was 25th in 16:56.