Division III Tennis Powers to Meet

A preview of what could be the Southern Section Division III championship match will be played today when North Hollywood Campbell Hall and Brentwood highs meet in an Olympic League girls’ tennis match at 3:45 p.m. at Brentwood.

Campbell Hall (5-2, 1-0) is ranked No. 1 in the Division III coaches’ poll, with Brentwood (6-1, 3-0) at No. 2.

Campbell Hall’s losses are to Beverly Hills and Calabasas, ranked Nos. 2 and 3, respectively, in Division I.

Campbell Hall features Alli Krasnopolsky, a sophomore who was the U.S. Tennis Assn.’s Southern California sectional runner-up in the girls’ 16s division in June. Krasnopolsky and junior teammates Daron Moore and Cheyenne Reveche are ranked No. 16, No. 32 and No. 46, respectively, in the Southern California Tennis Assn. girls’ 16 division. They helped the Vikings advance to the Division V semifinals last year.

Brentwood (6-1, 3-0), which lost in the Division V quarterfinals last season, features freshman Austin Hansen, ranked No. 14 in Southern California in girls’ 16s.

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The Calabasas High girls’ tennis team has used a group effort to post a 9-1 record this season, relying primarily on singles play and doubles teams that include Cory Ceizler.

Senior Erin Everly (17-1), junior Celia Durkin (18-3), sophomore Amanda Fink (23-1) and freshman Kristen McVitty (17-1) have a combined record of 75-6 in singles sets.

The foursome shares the No. 1 spot in the lineup, with one of the group usually rotated into the doubles lineup to team with Ceizler, a junior.

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Riza Zalameda, the No. 1 player for Beverly Hills, lost both of her matches while playing for a five-member United States team of top 19-and-under players, but the U.S. defeated Britain, 7-4, in the 29th Maureen Connolly Challenge Trophy competition last week in Bournemouth, England.

Zalameda, a junior, fell to Melanie South, 4-6, 6-4, 6-1, in singles. Zalameda teamed with Shenay Perry of Coral Springs, Fla., in doubles, but the pair lost, 6-4, 6-2, to Jane O’Donoghue and Anna Hawkins.

Lauren Peterson

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Van Nuys Montclair Prep’s football game Friday against Calexico Vincent Memorial has been canceled. Vincent Memorial has 14 players on the varsity and is forfeiting because of injuries.