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        <title>Year in review: girls tennis - School House Zach - zewing&apos;s Blog - Bakersfield.com</title>
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        <description>&amp;nbsp;For those of you who limit your&amp;nbsp;bakersfield.com&amp;nbsp;use to the work week, well, first of all, shame on you. Your weekend fun is here, not at the beach.

No, no, I&#039;m kidding. Hope you had a fantastic Fourth of July. But you did miss the first few installments of the Year in Review segments we&#039;re doing here at School House Zach. We&#039;ll be doing a recap of one sport from the past school year each day. Here&#039;s a linked index to help you catch up, sport by sport:

July 3: Football
July 4: Volleyball
July 5: Boys cross country
July 6: Girls cross country

Today, we move on to the next fall sport on my list, girls tennis.

2007-08 Kern County GIRLS TENNIS

Outlook:&amp;nbsp;It certainly was an intriguing year, with a No. 5-seeded team &amp;mdash; Liberty&#039;s Estefiana Limpias and Darcy Smith &amp;mdash; winning the Central Section doubles title, a big turnaround in the singles final and section titles from Stockdale, Garces and Bakersfield Christian.

Best player:&amp;nbsp;Within a few points of the Central Section title, Bakersfield Christian sophomore Lyndsay Cooke couldn&#039;t close out Visalia-Redwood&#039;s Gabrielle Gatewood &amp;mdash; after taking the first set 6-0, she lost the second in a tiebreaker and the third 6-3. Still, Cooke was unbeaten to that point and clearly was the best player in Kern County.
Honorable mention:&amp;nbsp;Estefiana Limpias, Liberty; Darcy Smith, Liberty; Nancy Ramirez, East; Frances Ellison, Stockdale

Best team:&amp;nbsp;No doubt it was Stockdale, which survived a semifinal test against Clovis East 5-4 before ripping Redwood 7-2 in the championship. The Mustangs lacked a dominant player but enjoyed depth unmatched in the section.
Honorable mention:&amp;nbsp;Liberty, Bakersfield Christian, East, Garces, Highland

Best event:&amp;nbsp;Between Limpias and Smith making a run past Stockdale&#039;s top two doubles teams and Cooke&#039;s untimely lapse in the singles final, the section&#039;s individual competition takes the cake. There was intrigue everywhere you turned.
Honorable mention:&amp;nbsp;Stockdale 5, Clovis East 4, Division I playoffs; East 5, Visalia-Mt. Whitney 4, Division II playoffs; Bakersfield Christian 6, SLO-Mission Prep 3, Division V playoffs.

A look ahead:&amp;nbsp;The best news for Cooke after the section final loss is that she was only a sophomore; I&#039;d expect her to reign over the section for the next two years. Ramirez, meanwhile, was just a freshman at East. On the team scale, there&#039;s no reason Stockdale can&#039;t repeat as the D-I champ.

Tomorrow: Girls golf</description>
        <itunes:summary>&amp;nbsp;For those of you who limit your&amp;nbsp;bakersfield.com&amp;nbsp;use to the work week, well, first of all, shame on you. Your weekend fun is here, not at the beach.

No, no, I&#039;m kidding. Hope you had a fantastic Fourth of July. But you did miss the first few installments of the Year in Review segments we&#039;re doing here at School House Zach. We&#039;ll be doing a recap of one sport from the past school year each day. Here&#039;s a linked index to help you catch up, sport by sport:

July 3: Football
July 4: Volleyball
July 5: Boys cross country
July 6: Girls cross country

Today, we move on to the next fall sport on my list, girls tennis.

2007-08 Kern County GIRLS TENNIS

Outlook:&amp;nbsp;It certainly was an intriguing year, with a No. 5-seeded team &amp;mdash; Liberty&#039;s Estefiana Limpias and Darcy Smith &amp;mdash; winning the Central Section doubles title, a big turnaround in the singles final and section titles from Stockdale, Garces and Bakersfield Christian.

Best player:&amp;nbsp;Within a few points of the Central Section title, Bakersfield Christian sophomore Lyndsay Cooke couldn&#039;t close out Visalia-Redwood&#039;s Gabrielle Gatewood &amp;mdash; after taking the first set 6-0, she lost the second in a tiebreaker and the third 6-3. Still, Cooke was unbeaten to that point and clearly was the best player in Kern County.
Honorable mention:&amp;nbsp;Estefiana Limpias, Liberty; Darcy Smith, Liberty; Nancy Ramirez, East; Frances Ellison, Stockdale

Best team:&amp;nbsp;No doubt it was Stockdale, which survived a semifinal test against Clovis East 5-4 before ripping Redwood 7-2 in the championship. The Mustangs lacked a dominant player but enjoyed depth unmatched in the section.
Honorable mention:&amp;nbsp;Liberty, Bakersfield Christian, East, Garces, Highland

Best event:&amp;nbsp;Between Limpias and Smith making a run past Stockdale&#039;s top two doubles teams and Cooke&#039;s untimely lapse in the singles final, the section&#039;s individual competition takes the cake. There was intrigue everywhere you turned.
Honorable mention:&amp;nbsp;Stockdale 5, Clovis East 4, Division I playoffs; East 5, Visalia-Mt. Whitney 4, Division II playoffs; Bakersfield Christian 6, SLO-Mission Prep 3, Division V playoffs.

A look ahead:&amp;nbsp;The best news for Cooke after the section final loss is that she was only a sophomore; I&#039;d expect her to reign over the section for the next two years. Ramirez, meanwhile, was just a freshman at East. On the team scale, there&#039;s no reason Stockdale can&#039;t repeat as the D-I champ.

Tomorrow: Girls golf</itunes:summary>
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