HIGH SCHOOL TENNIS : Peninsula Dominates Girls’ Finals

Even some untimely showers could not rain on Palos Verdes Peninsula High’s parade Friday during the Southern Section girls’ individual tennis championships at the Racquet Club of Irvine.

In an unprecedented show of force, all six players in the singles and doubles finals were from Peninsula. Janet Lee emerged as the singles champion, and Amanda Augustus and Jennifer Cohen won in doubles.

Lee, a second-seeded junior, overcame a sluggish start to defeat freshman teammate Amanda Basica, 4-6, 6-4, 6-2, in a match delayed 90 minutes by rain.

“I was kind of tentative at first,” Lee said. “Amanda was able to play more aggressively and take control. I was able to relax after the delay.”

In the semifinals, Lee defeated Arcadia’s fourth-seeded Pam Trump, 6-3, 6-1, and third-seeded Basica upset top-ranked Sandra De Silva of Pasadena Poly, 6-3, 7-5.

Augustus and Cohen, the second-seeded doubles team, lost their first set to top-seeded teammates Amber Basica and Summer Redondo and trailed, 6-0, in a second-set tiebreaker before turning it around. Augustus and Cohen saved six match points before winning the tiebreaker, 10-8, and then went on to win the match, 4-6, 7-6, 6-2.

Augustus and Cohen defeated Shera Wiegler and Kirsten Gross of Calabasas, 6-1, 6-3, in the semifinals, while Amber Basica and Redondo beat Natalie Grubb and Dana Mazza of Santa Barbara San Marcos, 6-1, 6-3.