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Article: Piedmont girls halted in quarters
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- November 10, 2006
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PIEDMONT -- The Piedmont High girls tennis team's season ended
Thursday in the quarterfinals of the North Coast Section playoffs,
when the Highlanders fell 7-0 to a deep and talented Monte Vista
squad.
"We didn't have the same firepower that we had the last few
years, but we still made it to the quarterfinals," Piedmont coach
Neil Rothenberg said. "At the beginning of the season, I would not
have expected to go to the quarters. But the girls really stepped
up."
The gritty effort the Highlanders displayed in rallying from a
set down in four different matches to beat San Marin 5-2 in
Tuesday's opening round just was not enough against the second-
seeded Mustangs, who won every match in ...