By Bret Strelow
bstrelow@salisburypost.com
Salisbury players will comprise the singles and doubles finals of the CCC girls tennis tournament.
Hannah Lebowitz will face teammate Joy Loeblein in singles, while the tandems of Erika Nelson-Katelyn Storey and Anna Page-Sierra Davis will meet for the other title.
The matches are scheduled to begin today at 3:30 p.m. in Lexington. Hornets coach Chris Myers passed on the option of playing in Salisbury.
“We want to keep them in tournament mode,” he said in a telephone interview. “If we played at our school, it would seem too much like a practice.”
Each of Salisbury’s four entries had a first-round bye and went 2-0 on Tuesday.
Page-Davis and Loeblein were seeded third in their brackets.
Page-Davis won 8-0 against West Davidson’s Melinda Athey-Katie Allen in the quarterfinals and 6-4, 6-2 against Central Davidson’s Haley Hanes-Lydian Beck, the No. 2 seed, in the semifinals.
Loeblein was an 8-0 winner against Thomasville’s Natalie Bravi and a 6-3, 6-3 winner against second-seeded Olivia Myers of West Davidson. That match lasted 21/2 hours.
“Joy played great and withstood a girl who didn’t make any unforced errors,” Chris Myers said. “In the end, she became more aggressive, and that pushed her into the final.”
Lebowitz and Nelson-Storey entered the event as No. 1 seeds.
Lebowitz had an 8-0 win against Lexington’s Taryn Jenkins and a 6-0, 6-0 win against Central Davidson’s Sarah Bowers.
Nelson-Storey won 8-1 against Central Davidson’s Amber Baldwin-McKensie Wall and 6-0, 6-0 against West Davidson’s Jessica West-Taylor Phipps.