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WILLIAMSVILLE -- Local players went 2-6 at the Section VI Tennis Championships on Friday at the Miller Tennis Center.
Falconer's Myla Brainard was the only singles player to win a match while Fredonia's Nella Darrell-Sterbak and Charis LaBarr were the only doubles pair to win a match among the six Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Athletic Association entries.
Brainard beat Starpoint's Raquel Proulx 6-4, 6-2 in the prequarterfinals before losing to Clarence's Victoria Kiener 6-1, 6-1 in the quarterfinals.
In doubles action, Darrell-Sterbak and LaBarr beat Niagara Wheatfield's Victoria Rows and Morgan Wurl 6-3, 6-1 in the prequarterfinals before losing to Clarence's Julia Mu and Viv Hallam 6-0, 6-1 in the quarterfinals.
The other two CCAA singles qualifiers and doubles qualifiers lost in straight sets.
Lancaster's Emily Powell beat Falconer's Rachael Swanson 6-1, 6-1 while Olmsted's Gabrielle Pacifico ousted Olean's Rachael Dulmus 6-0, 6-0.
Hamburg's Quinn Gannon and Kelsey Gannon beat Olean's Lina Chauhdry and Natalie Snyder 7-5, 6-3 while Orchard Park's Leela Clerici and Sophie Kielbasa topped Chautauqua Lake/Maple Grove's Eden Ludwig and Cameron Mackey 6-2, 6-3.
Clarence's Sofia Banifatemi -- the defending singles champion, who also won singles in 2023 and doubles in 2022 -- will take on Pacifico in one singles semifinal today while Williamsville South's Mary Finn will play Kiener in the other.
Orchard Park's Mariella Pericak and Adrianna Roberts -- the defending doubles champions -- will take on Clarence's Abby Onello and Audriana Gerace in one doubles semifinal while Clerici and Kielbasa will take on Mu and Hallam in the other today.
The top three finishers in singles and doubles will advance to the New York State Public High School Athletic Association Championships, which will be held Monday, Oct. 26 through Wednesday, Oct. 28 at the USTA's Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing.