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Hillsdale has made a race of it in the PAL Ocean Division.
The Lady Knights (11-1 PAL Ocean, 12-5 overall) are on a quest for the program’s first Peninsula Athletic League girls’ tennis championship since 2013, renewing their hopes with back-to-back wins this week.
Tuesday’s 4-3 victory over first-place Woodside (11-1, 12-1) was the pivotal match, as it moved Hillsdale into a tie for first. Now, with two regular-season matches to go, barring an upset, Hillsdale and Woodside are now on track to share the title. It would be Hillsdale’s third all-time, having shared a co-championship in the PAL Bay Division with Carlmont in 2013, and winning the PAL Ocean outright in 2005.
Woodside owns two previous PAL championships, both in the Ocean Division, in 2010 and ’18.
However, with the PAL Ocean Division allowed just one bid to the four-team PAL tournament, beginning Tuesday, Oct. 28, winning a co-championship in the Ocean is only half the battle. That’s where the tiebreaker format looms large.
If both teams finish tied for first as expected, the PAL tiebreaker format is based on the total number of individual matches won in head-to-head play. Hillsdale and Woodside are also tied in this respect, so the tiebreaker would go to individual match wins against all PAL opponents throughout the season. After Tuesday’s Hillsdale win, the Knights had the edge with 65 individual match wins to Woodside’s 64.
However, Woodside swung ahead Thursday with a 7-0 win over South City, giving the Wildcats 71 points. Hillsdale held on for a 4-3 win over El Camino (7-5 PAL Ocean), thanks to two super-tiebreaker victories, but the left head coach Jackie Nachtigall’s team with 69 individual match wins, two back of Woodside.
“I have a lot of decent players,” Nachtigall said. “It’s just we have a very young team. ... I only have two seniors. ... I feel like my team works really hard ... so, I feel like my girls can do it.”
Hillsdale has its No. 2 seeded players to thank for averting catastrophe.
No. 2 single Emma Yuen outlasted El Camino’s Zayna Juhar 6-4, 3-6, 10-8; and No. 2 doubles Eden Jacobson and Quinlan Henroid got past EC’s Mariah Lejender and Sofia David in a marathon 7-6(4), 5-7, 13-11.
The Knights also scored doubles wins from No. 1s Julia Moir and Leila Alizadeh 6-1, 6-4; and No. 3s Rebecca Mao and Kalea Kim 6-0, 6-0 to seal the pivotal victory.
El Camino (7-5 PAL Ocean) was paced by No. 1 single Lia Woo’s 6-3, 6-2 victory.
Hillsdale’s last two matches are against Oceana and Capuchino, both tied for fourth place. In the first round of league play, Hillsdale won 5-2 over Oceana and 6-1 over Cap.
Woodside’s last two matches are against third-place El Camino and seventh-place Westmoor. Against them in the first round, Woodside won 6-1 and 7-0, respectively.
In the event of a tie in individual matches, the bid to the PAL postseason tournament will be decided by coin flip. Three teams from the upper PAL Bay Division round out the PAL tournament field.
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Mike Caggiano said:
Hey Jon, so you have a pretty sharp sense of humor. I really get a kick out of it.
Thanks, and well said.
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Irv, really great letter explaining the realities in excellent and concise terms. Perfect! Bravo
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