Pardis Khorasani
Staff Writer
After eight consecutive sweeps, the girls tennis team added to its undefeated record yesterday, when the girls played Palisades High School and won, 14-4.
The team is currently undefeated in the preseason and has started Bay League.
“I think we have a good team this year, the best one we’ve had,” freshman singles player Amy Gaal said.
After the first round, singles players juniors Brooke Swallow and Taylor Klein won 6-3 and 6-2, respectively.
“My first match today wasn’t challenging, but I think we had a good match,” Swallow said.
Freshman singles player Gaal won her first match, 6-1, adding to her undefeated streak in her first year playing at Costa.
“I think that I played really well and had good placement,” Gaal said.
Senior Sydney Ascher played doubles with junior Dana Sternthal in the second round and later with Claudia Fellows in the third round, winning both matches. Senior Paula Cenusa with junior Mai Naojima also won, 6-1. Freshman doubles duo Isabella and Katarina Draskovic won their matches, 6-0, 6-1.
“Our two matches were pretty easy, but, I think the Bay League matches will be more challenging,” Katarina Draskovic said.
In the third round, the doubles team, seniors Hannah DaGiau and Michelle Tran, started out close. In the end, however, the girls lost, 6-3.
“Hannah and I hit some great volleys and gave the team a good run,” Tran said.
Palisades and Costa have traditionally been rivals. In this match, Palisades only won four matches.
“The players were talented and challenging,” Palisades singles player senior Julia Takakjian said.
Today the girls will play their first league match of the season against Palos Verdes High School at home.
“We’ve been playing really well, and after the Bay League we can actually tell how good of a team we are,” coach Joe Ciasulli said.
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