County Players Advance at USTA Event

Several Orange County participants advanced in the USTA Girls’ 16 Super Nationals tennis tournament that began Sunday in San Diego.

Elizabeth Exon (Irvine), Serena Fermin (Yorba Linda), Erin Ivey (Laguna Niguel), Joanna Kao (Fullerton), Aimee Kim (Irvine), Ashley Maddocks (Laguna Beach) and Kimberly Singer (Newport Beach) were first-round winners. Kim was also a winner in doubles, teaming with Megan Biorkman (Irvine). Other first-round doubles winners included Irvine’s Evangelina Soriano, who teamed with Erin Katims of Boca Raton, Fla., and Laguna Niguel’s Chelsy Thompson, who teamed with Michelle Rabinovich of Upland.

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* The Orange County Batbusters, based in Santa Ana, lost, 1-0, to Katy Cruisers Gold of Houston in the championship game of the ASA Junior Olympic Gold Nationals Sunday in St. Louis. The Batbusters advanced to the championship game of the double-elimination tournament, beating Katy Cruisers Gold, 1-0, in an earlier winners’ bracket game.

The Anaheim Batbusters finished third overall after forfeiting their winners’ bracket game to the Orange County Batbusters.