Golden Weekend in Hershey for WPIAL Doubles and Singles Tennis Girls

By: HSSN Staff
Saturday, November 5, 2011 | 7:25 PM

Hershey is known world wide as Chocolate Town, USA. However on Saturday to five WPIAL girls tennis players, Hershey became the Golden City. District 7 players swept the doubles titles and also won gold in the Class AAA singles tournament in the 2011 PIAA Girls Doubles and Singles Tennis Championships.

Plum senior Ronit Yurovsky closed out a tremendous high school career by winning her second consecutive PIAA Class AAA singles crown by winning four matches without dropping a set. She beat Cristina Kaiser of Plymouth-Whitemarsh 6-1, 6-2 in the championship finals at the Hershey Racquet Club Saturday afternoon. She outscored her opponents in those four victories 48-10. Back in September, Yurovsky claimed her third WPIAL girl singles tennis crown.

In the PIAA Doubles tournaments, duo's from Peters Township and Sewickley Academy both brought state championships back to Western Pennsylvania a month after capturing gold in the WPIAL playoffs.

Stephanie Smith and Sara Komer didn't drop a set in reaching the finals where they squared off against a familiar foe, the Mount Lebanon duo of Callie Frey and Annie Baich. Smith and Komer won 6-4, 6-0.

In the PIAA Class AA Doubles, Logan Antill and Carolien Ross beats teams from Berks Catholic, Westmont-Hilltop and Harriton to reach the state championship match where they knocked off Arianne Polatnick and Taylor Hoffman of Lower Moreland 6-1, 6-3. Ross was part of a Sewickley Academy duo that lost in the first round of the state tournament a year ago.

In the PIAA Class AA singles, WPIAL runner-up Eva Sung of Sewickley Academy advanced to the Semifinals where she lost to Julia Casselbury of Lancaster Country Day 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7-2). Sung wwent on to win the consolation match over Hannah Drayton of Harriton. WPIAL singles AA champ Sarah Shashura of Brownsville lost her first match on Friday to Audrey Ann Blakely 6-7 (4-6), 7-5, 7-6 (8-6).

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