MAPLEWOOD, NJ – The Columbia High School varsity girls’ tennis team featured eight players on the All-Super Essex Conference-Liberty Division.
The First Team honorees are first doubles players Lexie Fox and Marissa Bowles and second doubles players Becca Brown and Janine Bacchus-Joseph.
On the Second Team are first singles player Hannah Gross and second singles players Sarah Braka.
Fox and Bowles had the best record on the team at 13-7 and qualified for the state doubles tournament, the first girls to make the state tournament in head coach Bob Lieberman’s six years at Columbia
The Cougars won a first-round match at the Essex County Tournament for the first time in Lieberman’s tenure at Columbia, defeating Mount Saint Dominic Academy. The team also won a first-round state section tournament team match for the second year in a row, defeating Piscataway.
The highlight of the season was a 3-2 win over Governor Livingston with the deciding point earned by Braka in a three-hour three-setter.
The team’s record was 9-10. All players except Bowles and Thibodeau return next year.
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