SPORTS: Area tennis doubles teams finish just out of medal consideration

SEATTLE — The two doubles tennis teams from the North Olympic Peninsula finished just short of medal matches at the Class 2A state championships Friday and Saturday.

Sequim’s girls team of Stacy Hanson and Katrina Chan, and the Chimacum/Port Townsend boys team of Egan Cornachione and Benny Ryweck both went 1-2 at the Nordstrom Tennis Center.

Cornachione and Ryweck won their first-round match, beating Joseph Chung and Jamie Simanson of Pullman 6-3, 6-4.

Later, the two Peninsula players then lost 6-4, 6-2 to Ismael Teshome and Jake Wesselman of Medical Lake in the fourth-seventh place semifinals.

Hanson and Chan, meanwhile, lost 6-4, 6-3 to Jocelyn Cantu and Yanitta Cantu of Othello in the first round.

Hanson and Chan stayed alive by beating Marilyn Fick and Charlotte Kilborn of Kingston 6-4, 7-5 in the consolation first round.

The Sequim pair has beaten the Kingston twosome the fourth time in five tries this season.

Hanson and Chen was knocked out of the tourney 6-3, 6-2 by Sam Simmons and Emma Scherschligt of East Valley in the fifth-eighth place semifinals.

This was the third year that the senior pair of Hanson and Chan has competed at state.

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