Notre Dame juniors Bella Zalocha and Alyssa Capuana teamed up to win a Section III title in Class C doubles play.
Zalocha and Capuana, who played more singles than doubles in the Tri-Valley League during the regular season, defeated Notre Dame teammates Emma and Lily Johnson, and Manlius-Pebble Hill’s Mira Zhang and Amy Walsh 2-0 on the first day of the Class C tournament, and won 5-7, 6-4, 6-4 against Rose Fallon and Ferial Migeed, another Manlius-Pebble Hill pairing, in the finals the next day.
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Amitees Fazeli from Manlius-Pebble Hill won the Class C singles title.
Baldwinsville’s Mira Nadzan and doubles team of Elaina Nesbitt and Sonia Nadzan won Class A titles, and Jamesville-DeWitt’s Mona Farah and the Homer pair of Lauren Franco and Emma Effinger won in Class B.
The Oneida Express are among the eight teams gathering at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Friday for the girls state team tennis semifinals and finals.
Oneida (20-1) is the No. 3 seed for Division II and will play first at 7:30 a.m. against Bayport-Blue Point, the No. 2 seed from Section XI on Long Island. Honeoye Falls-Lima from Section V and Byram Hills, the No. 1 seed and 2021 and 2022 state champion from Section I are the other Division II semifinalists.
The semifinal winners meet in the 1 p.m. final.
Oneida was beaten 5-0 by Bronxville, the eventual champion from Section I, in last year’s semifinals, and Section VIII Friends Academy in 2021. The 2022 team was beaten in regionals by Section II Ichabod Crane.
The 2024 Express played the way back to the final four by beating Section II Scotia-Glenville 3-2 in a Oct. 26 regional at Schenectady’s Central Park. Oneida swept three doubles matches and Scotia-Glenville won both singles contests, one in a three-set comeback after losing the first.
This article originally appeared on Times Telegram: Notre Dame tennis duo wins Section 3 doubles title
