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No. 3 Hagerty (12-9) at No. 2 West Orange (12-4)

1A Region 2

No. 5 seed Bishop Moore (12-9) at No. 1 LHP (17-2)

No. 3 Edgewood (13-2) at No. 2 Berkeley Prep (10-2)

State tennis

Lake Nona’s girls and boys swept their quarterfinal matches against Spruce Creek, 5-0, at Sanlando Park to open the three-day Class 4A state tournament on Monday.

Lake Highland Prep, playing at Red Bug Lake Park, also cruised, with its youthful boys team blanking Jacksonville Bolles 5-0 in a 2A quarterfinal. The Highlanders girls also opened with two doubles wins. Its afternoon singles matches were not finalized in time for this report.

Boone junior Jordyn Gomez, undefeated coming in, won on a tiebreaker 7-5, 3-6 (10-4) against Koreena Hickey of Venice in the first round of the 4A girls individual singles bracket.

Bishop Moore junior Lucas Magro scored an upset 6-3, 6-0 win against Alexander Zelenov of Miami Gulliver Prep in the first round of the 2A individual singles bracket. Zelenov was the No. 4 seed.

Lake Nona’s boys, reigning state champs, dominated. Minat Koido won 6-0, 6-0 at No. 1 singles and Shaurya Tandon did the same at No. 5. That followed 4-0, 4-0 wins in No. 1 doubles by Koido and Krukik Vihan and No. 2 doubles by Dhanvin Sarla and Niko Saulovic.

The top-seeded Nona girls had one close match. Ashley Narath and Aspen Wooten lost their first mini-set 5-3 against Giselle Adekunle and Khloe Akopian but bounced back to take the second set 4-1 and then win a marathon 10-point tiebreaker 14-12 (must win by two points).

Narath, Wooten and Ariana Barber posted victories in singles.

Lake Highland ninth-grader Sohith Tella scored a boys No. 1 singles 6-2, 6-3 victory and teamed with junior Jackson Bates for a 4-0, 4-0 No. 1 doubles win. Seventh grader Rayden Bates and freshman Robert Heysek also scored singles wins and Heysek teamed with sophomore Zachary Change for a second line doubles win.

LHP senior No. 1 Authumie Dhaiti, who has not lost a singles match this season, teamed with seventh grader Lauren Chang to win No. 1 doubles in girls play. Priyana Thakkar and Lizzie McDonough, both seniors, also prevailed in No. 2 doubles.

Miami Palmetto ousted Winter Park’s girls 4-0.

Lake Mary’s boys lost 4-2 against Steinbrenner High of Tampa.

Team semifinals and finals are set for Tuesday.

Boys lacrosse

Timber Creek pulled the first big upset in postseason play with an 11-8 region quarterfinal win against Lake Brantley (16-3), which was ranked No. 7 in 2A.

The area’s No. 1 team, Winter Park, is riding a 16-game winning streak into its region semifinal game at home.

Here are Tuesday’s region semifinal pairings. Winners advance to Friday’s finals, hosted by the higher seed.

2A Region 2

No. 4 Vero Beach (13-6) at No. 1 Winter Park (18-1)

No. 7 Timber Creek (14-5) at No. 3 Boone (15-4)

1A Region 2

No. 4 St. Edward’s (10-7) at No. 1 Benjamin (12-5)

No. 3 Tampa Jesuit (13-6) at No. 2 Bishop Moore (15-5)

Lake Nona wins dramatic FHSAA tennis state final against Doral Academy

Varsity content editor Buddy Collings can be contacted by email at bcollings@orlandosentinel.com.