Nelson wins Easter Bowl title, but Chaudhary falls

Priya Nelson of Sacramento poses with her Easter Bowl girls 12
singles gold ball and sportsmanship award. At right is her coach,
Joseph Gilbert. Photo courtesy of Joseph Gilbert

   Northern Californians went 1 for 2 on Thursday in Easter Bowl singles finals at Indian Wells, Calif.
   Priya Nelson of Sacramento dominated Eleana Yu of Mason, Ohio, 6-1, 6-3 in a matchup of unseeded players in the girls 12s.
   But No. 2 seed Aryan Chaudhary of Santa Clara lost to No. 9 Alexander Bernard of Naples, Fla., 6-4, 6-2. Chaudhary won the doubles title with Timothy Li of Valley Village, Calif., on Wednesday.
   Meanwhile, No. 8 Ryder Jackson of Nicasio held off No. 11 Alex Lee of Oak Brook, Ill., 7-5, 7-6 (4) in the boys 16 quarterfinals. Jackson will meet No. 13 Stefan Dostanic, an Irvine resident who outlasted unseeded Jacob Bullard of Calabasas 6-4, 4-6, 6-3.
   In the boys 18s, No. 4 Sam Riffice from Roseville beat unseeded Trey Hilderbrand of San Antonio 6-2, 6-3. Riffice will play No. 7 Brian Cernoch of Rockville, Md. Unseeded Paul Barretto of Tiburon fell to No. 1 Trent Bryde of Suwanee, Ga., 7-5, 6-2.
   Unseeded Katie Volynets, 15, of Walnut Creek lost to No. 3 Whitney Osuigwe of Bradenton, Fla., 4-6, 6-3, 6-4.

Paul Barretto, Keenan Mayo repeat in Sectionals

   Paul Barretto and Keenan Mayo won their second consecutive NorCal Junior Sectional boys 18 and 16 singles titles, respectively, on Sunday at the Natomas Racquet Club in Sacramento.
   The No. 2-seeded Barretto, a 17-year-old Tiburon resident, beat No. 9 Jenson Brooksby, 15, of Carmichael 6-4, 6-3. The No. 1-seeded Mayo, a Roseville resident who turned 16 last month, dominated No. 9 Ryder Jackson of Nicasio 6-1, 6-1.
   In the quarterfinals of the girls 18s at UC Santa Cruz, No. 4 seed Carolyn Campana of Hillsborough ousted No. 5 Rachel Eason, the defending champion from Union City, 6-4, 6-2.
   Also, No. 2 Katie Volynets, 14, of Walnut Creek dismissed No. 4 Jessi Muljat, 15, of Sacramento 6-3, 6-1. Volynets is ranked first nationally in the 14s.
   Volynets avenged a 6-4, 7-5 loss to Muljat in the 16s final of the USTA International Spring Championships in Carson, Calif., in April.
   No. 1 seed Herrick Legaspi of Sacramento and No. 3 Anushka Khune of Palo Alto won the boys and girls 12 titles, respectively, at the Sunnyvale Tennis Center.
   The quarterfinals of the boys and girls 14s are scheduled for today at 11 a.m. at the Arden Hills Resort & Spa in Sacramento, followed by the semifinals at 3 p.m.

NORCAL JUNIOR SECTIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS

Finals

At Natomas Racquet Club in Sacramento

Boys 18

Singles

   Paul Barretto (2), Tiburon, def. Jenson Brooksby (9) Carmichael, 6-4, 6-3.

Doubles

   Arjith Jayaraman, Gold River, and Andrew Ton (4), Milpitas, def. Siddharth Chari, Saratoga, and Randy Cory, Salinas, 6-4, 1-6 [11-9].

Boys 16

Singles

   Keenan Mayo (1), Roseville, def. Ryder Jackson (9), Nicasio, 6-1, 6-1.

Doubles

   Sam Gibson, Chico, and Stevie Gould (4), Corte Madera, def. Ryder Jackson, Nicasio, and Zachery Lim (8), Fairfield, 4-6, 6-3, 6-3.

At Sunnyvale Tennis Center

Boys 12

Singles

  Herrick Legaspi (1), Sacramento, def. Raghav Jangbahadur (4), Palo Alto, 6-2, 6-0.

Doubles

   John Kim, Sunnyvale, and Herrick Legaspi (1), Sacramento, def. Liam Carpenter, Greenbrae, and Patrick Toman (3), Pleasant Hill, 6-2, 6-1.

Girls 12

Singles

   Anushka Khune (3), Palo Alto, def. Georgia Beard (1), Santa Rosa, 6-3, 6-2.

Doubles

   Anushka Khune, Palo Alto, and Madison Weekley (2), Alamo, def. Martina Marica, San Jose, and Kamila Wong (3), Palo Alto, 6-0, 6-2.

Paul Barretto, Keenan Mayo seek Sectional repeats

   Paul Barretto and Keenan Mayo will play for their second consecutive NorCal Junior Sectional boys 18 and 16 singles titles, respectively, today at the Natomas Racquet Club in Sacramento.
   The second-seeded Barretto, from Tiburon, outlasted ninth-seeded Andrew Ton of Milpitas 7-6 (4), 1-6, 7-5 in Saturday's semifinals. The top-seeded Mayo, from Roseville, downed third-seeded Stevie Gould of Corte Madera 6-1, 7-5.
   Barretto, 17, will face ninth-seeded Jenson Brooksby, 15, of Carmichael today at 9:30 a.m. Brooksby beat ninth-seeded Andre Xiao of Saratoga 6-4, 6-1.
   Xiao had ousted top-seeded Kevin Ma of San Ramon 7-6 (9), 6-3 earlier Saturday in the quarterfinals.
   Mayo, who turned 16 last month, will meet ninth-seeded Ryder Jackson of Nicasio today at 9:30 a.m. Jackson outplayed ninth-seeded Karl Lee of Los Altos 6-1, 6-4.

NorCal's Huang reaches National Winter semifinals

   No. 8 seed Austen Huang of Elk Grove defeated No. 14 Matthew Lord of Bloomfield, Conn., 6-2, 6-3 on Thursday in the boys 18 quarterfinals of the USTA National Winter Championships in Scottsdale, Ariz.
   Huang will meet No. 10 Jason Lui of Bellevue, Wash., today for a berth in the final. Lui beat unseeded Eric Morris of Corinth, Texas, 6-4, 6-3.
   Top-seeded William Genesen, a Tulsa, Okla., resident who's headed to Stanford, topped No. 17 Paul Barretto of Tiburon 6-2, 7-6 (7).
   Mac Kiger of Katonah, N.Y., outlasted Ajai Shekhera of Campbell 4-6, 6-1, 6-4 in a battle of unseeded players. Shekhera had eliminated the No. 17, No. 11 and No. 4 seeds in his previous three matches.
   Top seeds Sara Choy (girls 16s), Katie Volynets (girls 14s) and Stefan Leustian (boys 14s) also reached the semifinals. Volynets and Milpitas' Andrew Ton (boys 16s) advanced to doubles finals.
   The boys and girls 18s and 16s are being played in Scottsdale, and the 14s and 12s are being held in Tucson, Ariz.

USTA NATIONAL WINTER CHAMPIONSHIPS

(Northern California results only)

Boys

Singles quarterfinals

18 and under

   William Genesen (1), Tulsa, Okla., def. Paul Barretto (17), Tiburon, 6-2, 7-6 (7).
   Mac Kiger, Katonah, N.Y., def. Ajai Shekhera, Campbell, 4-6, 6-1, 6-4.
   Austen Huang (8), Elk Grove, def. Matthew Lord (14), Bloomfield, Conn., 6-2, 6-3.

14 and under

   Stefan Leustian (1), Mather, def. Jerry Wang (9), Fayetteville, N.C., 6-3, 7-6 (3).

Doubles semifinals

16 and under

   Zummy Bauer, Suwanee, Ga., and Andrew Ton (1), Milpitas, def. Trey Hilderbrand, San Antonio, and Kevin Zhu (3), Pearland, Texas, 6-4, 1-6, 6-2.

14 and under

   Robert Cash and Joel Jose (4), New Albany, Ohio, def. Stefan Leustian, Mather, and Zachery Lim (7), Fairfield, 7-6 (3), 6-1.

Girls

Singles quarterfinals

16 and under

   Sara Choy (1), Palo Alto, def. Sophia Edwards (7), Sarasota, Fla., 6-1, 3-6, 6-2.

   Hannah Zhao (2), San Diego, def. Carolyn Campana (8), Hillsborough, 6-1, 6-1.

14 and under

   Katie Volynets (1), Walnut Creek, def. Elizabeth Goldsmith, Chula Vista, 6-2, 6-1.
   Amy Huang (5), San Diego, def. Jillian Taggart (2), Fair Oaks, 1-6, 6-4, 6-0.

12 and under

   Christine Canete (3), Los Angeles, def. Yuu Ishikawa (5), Mountain View, 6-0, 6-2.

Doubles semifinals

18 and under

   Annette Goulak, Oak Park, and Ena Shibahara (2), Rancho Palos Verdes, def. Hind Abdelouahid, San Jose, and Diana Wong, Hilo, Hawaii, 6-3, 6-4.

14 and under

   Gabriella Price, Montebello, N.Y., and Katie Volynets (2), Walnut Creek, def. Elizabeth Goldsmith, Chula Vista, and Rachel Wagner (9), Calabasas, 2-6, 7-6 (3), 7-6 (6).

NorCal's Favero falls in National Winter nail-biter

No. 6 seed Camille Favero, shown in June in Sacramento,
lost a heartbreaker in the third round of the girls 18s in
the USTA National Winter Championships.
Photo by Paul Bauman 

   No. 6 seed Camille Favero of Sacramento lost to No. 17 Annette Goulak of Oak Park 6-7 (3), 6-4, 7-6 (1) today in the third round of the girls 18s in the USTA National Winter Championships in Scottsdale, Ariz.
   Northern California's other remaining girl in 18 singles, No. 17 Darya Possokhova of San Francisco, fell to No. 9 Jessica Failla of Ramona 2-6, 6-2, 6-3.
   Three NorCal boys, however, reached the round of 16 in the 18s. Advancing were No. 8 Austen Huang of Elk Grove, No. 17 Paul Barretto of Tiburon and unseeded Ajai Shekhera of Campbell.
   Shekhera upset No. 11 Joseph Rotheram of Manhattan Beach 6-2, 4-6, 6-3.
   Barretto won the boys 18 title in the NorCal Junior Sectional Championships in Sacramento in June.
   The 18s and 16s are being played in Scottsdale, and the 14s and 12s are being contested in Tucson, Ariz.

USTA NATIONAL WINTER CHAMPIONSHIPS

(Northern California results only)

Boys
Third-round singles

18 and under

   Austen Huang (8), Elk Grove, def. Dylan King (17), Portland, Ore., 6-3, 6-1.
   Paul Barretto (17), Tiburon, def. Michael Lee, Tucson, Ariz., 6-2, 6-0.
   Ajai Shekhera, Campbell, def. Joseph Rotheram (11), Manhattan Beach, 6-2, 4-6, 6-3.
   Connor Hance (2), Torrance, def. Jayson Fung, San Francisco, 6-1, 6-3.

16 and under

   Carson Haskins (1), Ballwin, Mo., def. Jenson Brooksby (17), Carmichael, 6-0, 6-4.
   Arjith Jayamaran, Gold River, def. Jack Katzman, Seattle, 6-2, 6-4.

14 and under

   Stefan Leustian (1), Mather, def. JC Roddick, San Antonio, 1-6, 7-5, 6-2.
   Justin Mandell, Harrison, N.Y., def. Mason Fung, San Francisco, 6-3, 6-2.
   Jerry Wang (6), Fayetteville, N.C., def. Brandon Aprill, Mountain View, 6-2, 6-2.
   Harry Yang (3), Arcadia, def. Aidan Mayo (17), Roseville, 7-5, 6-3.
   Andrew Dale (5), Leesburg, Va., def. Zachery Lim (17), Fairfield, 6-3, 6-1.
   Pierce Rollins, Tulsa, Okla., def. Aditya Gupta (17), Los Altos, 6-4, 1-6, 7-6 (6).
12 and under
   Nishesh Basavareddy (3), Carmel, Ind., def. Alexander Chang (17), Berkeley, 6-1, 6-1.

Third-round doubles

16 and under

   Zummy Bauer, Suwanee, Ga., and Andrew Ton (1), Milpitas, def. William Grattan-Smith and Garrett Johns, Atlanta, 6-0, 6-1.

14 and under

   Stefan Dostanic, Irvine, and Aditja Gupta (6), Los Altos, def. Logan Paik Chang, Old Westbury, N.Y., and Derek Raskopf (9), New York, 7-5, 6-1.
   Stefan Leustian, Mather, and Zachery Lim (7), Fairfield, def. Keshav Chopra, Marietta, Ga., and Alex Lee (9), Oak Brook, Ill., 6-4, 7-6 (6).

12 and under

   Nishesh Basavareddy, Carmel, Ind., and Alan Jesudason (1), Berwyn, Pa., def. Alexander Chang, Berkeley, and Luke Neal, Oakland, 3-6, 6-3 [11-9].
   Max Fardanesh, Albany, and Jake Vassel, Danville, def. Noah Zamora, San Diego, and Learner Tien, Irvine, 6-2, 5-7 [10-7].

Girls

Third-round singles

18 and under

   Annette Goulak (17), Oak Park, def. Camille Favero (6), Sacramento, 6-7 (3), 6-4, 7-6 (1).
   Jessica Failla (9), Ramona, def. Darya Possokhova (17), San Francisco, 2-6, 6-2, 6-3.

16 and under

   Sara Choy (1), Palo Alto, def. Maia Sung, Rolling Hills, 2-6, 6-3, 6-1.
   Rachel Eason (4), Union City, def. Vivian Cheng (17), Santa Monica, 6-2, 6-2.
   Sedona Gallagher, Henderson, Nev., def. Ashley Yeah (16), Los Gatos, 6-1, 6-7 (6), 6-3.
   Carolyn Campana (8), Hillsborough, def. Somer Henry, Franklin, Tenn., 6-2, 7-6 (6).

14 and under

   Katie Volynets (1), Walnut Creek, def. Audrey Boch-Collins (17), Las Vegas, 7-6 (6), 6-3.
   Gabriella Price (4), Montebello, N.Y., def. Stephanie Nguyen (17), Fremont, 6-2, 6-2.
   Jillian Taggart (2), Fair Oaks, def. Macey Miller (17), Norman, Okla., 6-1, 6-1.
12 and under
   Christine Canete (3), Los Angeles, def. Angelica AksdalJansen, San Francisco, 6-0, 6-0.
   Yuu Ishikawa (5), Mountain View, def. Sonya Macavei, Loveland, Ohio, 6-1, 6-0.
   Bridget Stammel (4), Dallas, def. Makenna Thiel (17), Piedmont, 6-3, 6-4.
   Vivian Ovrootsky (13), San Jose, def. Filippa Bruu-Syversen (17), Chatham, N.J., 6-3, 7-5.

Third-round doubles 

18 and under

   Hind Abdelouahid, San Jose, and Diana Wong, Hilo, Hawaii, Alyssa Hahn, Richmond, Va., and Nina Sorkin, Glen Allen, Va., 6-4, 2-6 [10-7].

16 and under

   Carolyn Campana, Hillsborough, and Madison Hwang (1), Frisco, Texas, def. Page Freeman, Ashland, Mass., and Cayla Koch, Weston, Conn., 6-3, 7-5.

   Dasha Kourkina, Brooklyn, N.Y., and Michelle Sorokko (3), Little Neck, N.Y., def. Sara Choy, Palo Alto, and Salma Ewing, Long Beach, 7-5, 6-1.

   Abigail Forbes, Raleigh, N.C., and Alexis Merrill (10), Fairfax, Va., def. Julia Lilien, Scottsdale, and Niluka Madurawe (9), Sunnyvale, 6-4, 6-3.

   Julia Haynes, San Diego, and Rena Lin, Northridge, def. Jessica Aragon, Plano, Texas, and Rachel Eason (13), Union City, 6-1, 7-5.

14 and under

   Gabriella Price, Montebello, N.Y., and Katie Volynets (2), Walnut Creek, def. Fiona Crawley, San Antonio, and Kiana Graham (9), Austin, Texas, 6-2, 3-6 [10-8].

12 and under 

   Vivian Ovrootsky, San Jose, and Makenna Thiel (9), Piedmont, def. Whitley Pate, Winston-Salem, N.C., and Sophia Strugnell (7), Summerfield, N.C., 7-6 (2), 7-5.

   Yuu Ishikawa, Mountain View, and Katja Wiersholm (5), Kirkland, Wash., def. Kailey Evans, Ennis, Texas, and Katherine Wurster, Wichita Falls, Texas, 4-6, 6-2 [11-9].  

Barretto has banner day in NorCal Boys Sectionals

Paul Barretto, left, and Keenan Mayo won the 18s
and 16s, respectively, in the NorCal Junior Sectional
Championships. Photo by Paul Bauman

   SACRAMENTO -- Paul Barretto's 18-and-under singles title meant so much to him that he took the tournament banner home.
   With permission, of course.
   The fifth-seeded Barretto, from Tiburon, wore down third-seeded Austen Huang of Elk Grove 6-4, 6-1 on Monday in the NorCal Boys' 18 & 16 Junior Sectional Championships at Sacramento State.
   From 4-4 in the first set, Barretto won eight of the last nine games.
   "I just really wanted (the title)," said the 16-year-old Barretto, who appropriately wore a shirt depicting a tiger. "I fought hard with a little injury. I had the mindset to win today."
   Barretto said he had cramped in his legs and hips in his three-set semifinal victory over unseeded Mayson Xue, who had toppled No. 1 seed Lane Leschly in the second round, No. 9 Dominic Barretto (Paul's brother) in the third round and No. 5 Gabriel Owens in the quarterfinals.   
   Paul Barretto added that he did not cramp in the final. He earned his first sectional singles title, although he has won the doubles in the 18s, 16s and 14s with Dominic, who's 11 months older.
   Paul Barretto also avenged a 6-3, 7-6 (3) loss to Huang in the semifinals of the Junior Fall Sectionals last September at the Broadstone Racquet Club in nearby Folsom.
   Barretto -- a 5-foot-11 (1.80-meter), 150-pound (68-kilogram) counterpuncher -- said his greatest strength is his mentality.
   "I do get down on myself, but put me on a back court at Sac State in 110-degree (43.3 Celsius) heat, and I still want to be out there. It's never an easy match," said Barretto, who's ranked 38th nationally in the 16s to Huang's 14th.
   While Huang pounded away in the final, Barretto scrambled for balls from several feet behind the baseline and often managed to throw up lobs to stay in points.   
   "My game plan was to work him around and get a short ball," Barretto said. "I let him dictate the point until I was forced to hit a passing shot. That's a good element of my game. I'm able to do both things."
   Barretto also played the big points better than Huang, who had not lost more than two games in any of his tournament matches.
   Barretto led 3-0 and 4-1 in the first set, but Huang fought back for 4-4. After Barretto held serve for 5-4, Huang double-faulted to give his opponent set point but saved it with a service winner.
   Huang then missed his first serve. On his second, he swatted a short forehand that should have been a putaway, but the ball clipped the net and sailed long to give Barretto his second set point.
   After Huang missed his first serve again, Barretto slugged a backhand crosscourt passing shot for the set and roared in exultation.
   Barretto bolted to a 4-0 lead in the second set and promptly closed out the match.
   "I felt Austen was rushing," said Joseph Gilbert, Huang's coach and the founder and owner of the JMG Tennis Academy at the Arden Hills Resort & Spa in Sacramento. "He was trying to end the point too quickly instead of trying to set up the point.
   "He (had) played with the lead the whole tournament. This was the first time he was down, and he was trying to get it back really fast. He hadn't had any battles."

Katie Volynets -- a 5-foot, 80-pound
phenom -- will play for the girls 16 title.
Photo by Paul Bauman

   In the boys 16 final, third-seeded Keenan Mayo of Roseville used his one-foot (30.5-centimeter) height advantage to defeat top-seeded Andrew Ton, a left-hander from Milpitas, 6-4, 6-4.
   "I was trying to hit heavier, get the ball high on him, and I was getting some points off that," said the 6-foot-4 (1.93-meter) Mayo, who trains under Vahe Assadourian at the USTA center in Carson. "On my serve, I was trying to get the ball out of his strike zone. He does well for his size."
   Both players won 14-and-under titles in last year's USTA National Clay Court Championships in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Mayo in singles and Ton in doubles with Brandon Nakashima of San Diego.  
   The top seeds in the girls 18s and 16s also lost in the semifinals at Arden Hills. Fifth-seeded Jenna Friedel of Mill Valley dismantled Camille Favero of Sacramento 6-2, 6-3 in the 18s, and fourth-seeded Jillian Taggart of Fair Oaks overwhelmed Ashley Yeah of Los Gatos 6-0, 6-3 in the 16s.
   In today's finals at noon, the 17-year-old Friedel will meet fourth-seeded Rachel Eason, 15, of Union City, and Taggart will take on third-seeded Katie Volynets, 13, of Walnut Creek.
   Volynets -- a 5-foot (1.52-meter), 80-pound (36.3-kilogram) phenom -- won last year's USTA girls 12 national hardcourt title.  

NORCAL JUNIOR SECTIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS

Boys 18 finals

At Sacramento State

Singles

   Paul Barretto (5), Tiburon, def. Austen Huang (3), Elk Grove, 6-4, 6-1.

Doubles

   Dominic Barretto and Paul Barretto, Tiburon, def. Gabriel Owens, Los Altos, and Mayson Xue, San Ramon, 6-3, 6-1.

Girls 18
At Arden Hills Resort & Spa in Sacramento
Singles semifinals

   Jenna Friedel (5), Mill Valley, def. Camille Favero (1), Sacramento, 6-2, 6-3.

   Rachel Eason (4), Union City, def. Jessi Muljat (5), Sacramento, 5-7, 6-2, 6-4.

Doubles final

   Darya Possokhova and Katya Tabachnik (1), San Francisco, def. Seriana Saltzen, Cameron Park, and Emily Zheng (2), Fremont, 6-1, 6-1.

Boys 16 finals

At Sacramento State

Singles

   Keenan Mayo (3), def. Andrew Ton (1), 6-4, 6-4.

Doubles

   Randy Cory, Salinas, and Andrew Ton (1), Milpitas, def. Armaan Kalra, Tiburon, and Wilhelm Saiga, Belvedere Tiburon, 6-3, 6-3.

Girls 16
At Arden Hills Resort & Spa in Sacramento
Singles semifinals

   Jillian Taggart (4), Fair Oaks, def. Ashley Yeah (1), Los Gatos, 6-0, 6-3.

   Katie Volynets (3), Walnut Creek, def. Niluka Madurawe (2), Sunnyvale, 6-2, 3-6, 6-2.

Doubles final

   Niluka Madurawe, Sunnyvale, and Jacquie Tan (2), Elk Grove, def. Hind Abdelouahid, San Jose, and Abbie Mulbarger (1), Woodbridge, 6-1, 2-6 [10-7]. 

Boys 14 finals

At Fremont Tennis Center
Singles 

   Stefan Leustian (3), Mather, def. Ryan Ali (5), Mill Valley, 6-7 (3), 6-1, 6-2.

Doubles

   Stefan Leustian, Mather, and Zachery Lim (2), Fairfield, def. Ryder Jackson, Nicasio, and Rian Ta (1), Fremont, 6-3, 7-5.

Girls 14 finals

At Fremont Tennis Center

Singles

   Connie Ma (2), Dublin, def. Muskan Mahajan (5), San Ramon, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4.

Doubles

   Katherine Duong, Cupertino, and Connie Ma (2), Dublin, def. Muskan Mahajan, San Ramon, and Laura Sanders, El Cerrito, 6-4, 6-1.

Boys 12 finals

At Sunnyvale Tennis Center

Singles

   Aryan Chaudhary (2), Santa Clara, def. Max Fardanesh (3), Albany, 6-1, 6-2.

Doubles

   Aryan Chaudhary, Santa Clara, and Jake Vassel (1), Danville, def. Luke Casper, Santa Cruz, and Geoffrey Golan (2), San Jose, 6-2, 6-0.

Girls 12 finals
At Sunnyvale Tennis Center
Singles

   Claire Galerkin (2), San Francisco, def. Vivian Ovrootsky (1), San Jose, 2-6, 6-3, 6-4. 

Doubles

   Georgia Beard, Santa Rosa, and Vivian Ovrootsky (1), San Jose, def. Claire Galerkin, San Francisco, and Maryia Lucia (2), Roseville, 7-5, 7-5.

Gordon withdraws from Easter Bowl with injury

   Fifth-seeded Michaela Gordon of Saratoga withdrew from her second-round match in the girls 18s at the prestigious Easter Bowl in Indian Wells on Wednesday.
   Gordon, the 22nd-ranked junior in the world at 15 years old, pulled out against Emma Higuchi, 17, of Los Angeles with an abdominal injury.
   Last year, Gordon reached the Easter Bowl semifinals and, as a qualifier, the Wimbledon girls quarterfinals in her first tournament on grass.
   Another Saratoga resident, 16-year-old Alaina Miller, lost to Ena Shibahara, 17, of Rancho Palos Verdes 6-2, 7-5 on Wednesday in the second round of the girls 18s.
   Meanwhile, three Northern Californian boys -- Sam Riffice of Roseville, Cameron Klinger of Elk Grove and Jake DeVine of Los Altos Hills -- advanced to the 18 doubles quarterfinals with separate partners.  
   The Easter Bowl is one of the top junior tournaments in the United States.

EASTER BOWL

Northern California players only

Boys 18

Second-round singles

   Sam Riffice (14), Roseville, def. Kyrylo Tsygura, North Potomac, Md., 6-4, 6-3.
   Cameron Klinger, Elk Grove, def. Jakub Wojcik, Delray Beach, Fla., 7-5, 6-0.
   William Blumberg (2), Greenwich, Conn., def. Alexander Keyser, Danville, 6-0, 6-2.

Second-round doubles

    Jake DeVine, Los Altos Hills, and Patrick Kypson, Greenville, N.C., def. Connor Hance, Torrance, and Alexander Lebedev, Island Park, N.Y., 3-6, 6-2 [14-12].
    Cameron Klinger, Elk Grove, and Nathan Ponwith, Scottsdale, Ariz., def. John McNally, Cincinnati, and Gianni Ross, La Grange, Ill., 6-3, 6-4.
    Vasil Kirkov, Tampa, Fla., and Sam Riffice (6), Roseville, def. Emanuel Llamas, El Paso, Texas, and Jakub Wojcik, Delray Beach, Fla., 6-0, 6-2.

Boys 16

Third-round singles

   Brian Cernoch (11), North Bethesda, Md., def. Austen Huang (2), Elk Grove, 7-5, 4-6, 6-3.
   Oliver Crawford (1), Spartanburg, S.C., def. Paul Barretto (12), Tiburon, 6-3, 6-2. 

Girls 18

Second-round singles

   Emma Higuchi, Los Angeles, def. Michaela Gordon (5), Saratoga, walkover.
   Ena Shibahara, Rancho Palos Verdes, def. Alaina Miller, Saratoga, 6-2, 7-5.

Girls 16

Third-round singles

   Victoria Emma (12), Naples, Fla., def. Carolyn Campana, Hillsborough, 6-4, 6-1.

Bellis wins girls 18 title in Easter Bowl

CiCi Bellis topped Katie Swan 6-3, 6-1
for the girls 18 title in the Easter Bowl.
2012 photo by Paul Bauman

   Fourth-seeded CiCi Bellis of Atherton outclassed 11th-seeded Katie Swan of Wichita, Kan., 6-3, 6-1 Sunday to win the girls 18 title in the prestigious Easter Bowl in Indian Wells.
   Bellis reached the final of the 14s in 2012 and won the 16s last year. She turned 15 on Tuesday, and Swan did the same on March 24.    
   Two other Northern Californians, Keenan Mayo of Roseville and Katie Volynets of Walnut Creek, lost in the finals.
   The second-seeded Mayo fell to No. 1 Steven Sun of Glen Cove, N.Y., 6-0, 4-6, 6-1 in the boys 14s, and the sixth-seeded Volynets was stopped by No. 9 Kacie Harvey of Braintree, Mass., 6-2, 6-1 in the girls 12s.
   Fifth-seeded Paul Barretto of Tiburon and Timothy Sah of San Diego won the boys 14 doubles crown, beating unseeded Cody Lin of Thousand Oaks and Kento Perera of Santa Barbara 8-2.

SUNDAY'S COLLEGE RESULTS

Women

   No. 6 Cal 4, Oregon 0: http://www.calbears.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=30100&ATCLID=209465197
   Santa Clara 4, Gonzaga 3: http://www.santaclarabroncos.com/sports/w-tennis/2013-14/releases/20140413u1dc8q
   Saint Mary's 4, Loyola Marymount 0: http://www.smcgaels.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=101598&SPID=12531&DB_LANG=C&ATCLID=209465188&DB_OEM_ID=21400
   Northern Arizona 6, Sacramento State 1: http://www.hornetsports.com/sports/wten/2013-14/releases/20140413x890re
   UC Davis at Hawaii, suspended by rain: http://www.ucdavisaggies.com/sports/w-tennis/spec-rel/041314aab.html

Men

   Portland 4, No. 64 Santa Clara 3: http://portlandpilots.com/news/2014/4/13/MTEN_0413140353.aspx
   Fresno State 5, Sacramento State 0: http://www.hornetsports.com/sports/mten/2013-14/releases/20140413fi4m0t