DENVER — History has been made in the Colorado girls tennis individual state championship.
Valor Christian sophomore, Caroline Daugherty, won the No. 1 singles individual title in straight sets, 6-2, 6-4 over Chaparral junior Remi Nguyen.
Daugherty's singles win marked Valor Christian’s first-ever individual title for the Eagles' girls tennis program.
Daugherty said the toughest part of Nguyen's game was her serve.
"No one has a serve like her, she's an amazing player, her serve is so good," Daugherty said.
The No. 1 doubles title went home with a very vocal Ralston Valley team starring, Adia Farling and Cassidy Gordon, defeating Cherry Creek 7-5, 6-2.
"Since the beginning of the season we saw we needed to hype each other up," Farling said. "When we started doing that, our play took off."
In 4A No. 1 Singles, Kent Denver's Lila Moldenhauer defeated Erie 6-1, 6-2.
In 3A No. 1 Singles, D’Evelyn's Nicole Celechovsky defeated Colorado Academy 6-2, 6-3.
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On Tuesday at Denver Tennis Park, the Ralston Valley Mustangs took on the Cherry Creek Bruins, looking for their first-ever team tennis title.
In the dual-style, best to four-wins, the title came down to the No. 3 singles match, Ralston’s Valley’s Scarlett Lutz vs. Cherry Creek’s Zoe Hochstadt.
Lutz would then clinch the title by a 6-2, 7-5 score over Creek’s Hochstadt, resulting in Ralston Valley's first-ever girls tennis team title by a score of 4-2 in the team championship finals.
The class 4A girls tennis team state championship came down to Kent Denver's No. 1 doubles pair, Kendall Adams and Samantha Brenner facing Cheyenne Mountain’s Jocelyn Kelly and Saffron Heroldt in a decisive third set. Adams and Brenner would clinch a 6-7, 6-4, 6-4 4-3 team victory for Kent Denver, winning its first girls tennis team title since 2005.
In the class 3A girls tennis team championships, the Mustangs won 4-3 over Vail Christian to claim its first-ever team state championship.
The 3A match came down to No. 4 doubles, Colorado Academy’s Emily Archie and Bea Wadsworth beat Vail Christian’s Linnea Iverson and Grace Armstrong, 2-6, 7-6, 6-4 to clinch the victory.