Tennis Center Juniors Stay Undefeated The Palisades Tennis Center continues to show why it has one of the top training programs in the nation for junior players. The PTC remained undefeated in Westside League competition last Sunday with victories in both the Open and Satellite divisions. The Open team beat Beverly Hills, 6-3, with key singles wins notched by Seby Urtiz (8-3), Eduardo Nava (8-4), Audrey Ashraf (8-3), Alex Ghiannini (8-4) and Connor Tracy (8-1). Meanwhile, the Satellite team also won 6-3 with singles victories by Samantha Kogan (8-3), Mark Cohrs (8-5) and Matthew Wilson (8-4) and an 8-3 doubles victory by Samantha Sharpe and Perri Zaret. Steckmest Wins Doubles Match Palisadian Lisa Steckmest, a sophomore at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, competed in the NCAA Division III Tennis Championships last week in Santa Cruz. Steckmest and partner Kristen Handley of Ventura won their pro set, 8-4, against a duo from Texas Trinity College. Steckmest, who was a standout at Brentwood School, helped lead CMS to a 5-3 victory and a third-place finish in the tournament. Ranked fourth in the country prior to the championships, CMS defeated sixth-ranked DePauw University, 5-4, in the quarterfinals and lost to top-ranked Washington & Lee University, 5-1, in the semifinals before defeating second-ranked Trinity. Rosenthal Earns Leadership Award Palisadian Ari Rosenthal, a senior at Washington University in St. Louis, earned the Intercollegiate Tennis Association’s Arthur Ashe Leadership and Sportsmanship Award. Rosenthal, who was an All-CIF player at Brentwood School, is one of 32 singles players who qualified for the NCAA Division III Men’s Tennis Championships in Virginia. A three-time All-American, he was 25-4 at No. 1 singles this season for the Bears and has compiled a 179-54 overall record in four seasons.
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