HIGH SCHOOLS

Getting rolled: Campbell Hall High was on a roll entering Wednesday’s Southern Section Division IV boys’ tennis final against San Marino.

The Vikings, 20-0 prior to the match, won their first Delphic League title and defeated archrival Brentwood three times this season after 28 consecutive losses to the Eagles.

None of it mattered against the Titans, who coasted to a 13-5 victory and their fourth section title since 1990.

“I don’t know why [San Marino] didn’t ask to play [in a higher division],” Campbell Hall Coach Steve Kuechel said. “But I’m proud of our kids, they really battled.”

Longtime Titan Coach Maureen Bryant, whose team defeated Division I runner-up Loyola, Division II champion Sunny Hills and Division III champion Harvard-Westlake during the season, said she never considered moving up when the divisions were realigned according to enrollment prior to the season.

“I didn’t even worry about it,” Bryant said. “The size of a school doesn’t mean it has a better tennis team, as we’ve shown. Traditionally, the smaller schools have been stronger.”

Practice imperfect: To help prepare for Righetti’s hard-throwing Joceyln Forest, Saugus High enlisted former standout Jamie Gillies.

Gillies, who just finished her freshman year at Michigan, threw batting practice on Monday, the day before the Southern Section Division II semifinal softball game. Gillies gave the Centurions a steady diet of rise balls.

Saugus leadoff hitter Nicole Giordano said her teammates looked good in batting practice. But at game time, they were free swingers. The first 10 Centurion batters struck out, including Giordano twice.

Forest had 14 strikeouts in a 2-1 Righetti victory.

“I think people were kind of playing for themselves today,” Giordano said. “Everybody was thinking they would get the big hit.”

Surprisingly, Saugus’ offensive strategy against Forest was not to bunt or slap the ball through the infield, but to swing away.

“I thought we would do it the way we have all season,” said Coach Ron Hilton, whose defending section champion Centurions entered the playoffs with a .389 batting average. “It didn’t work. If I had it to do all over again, I’d change our approach a little.”