2026 MIAA Girls Tennis Championships: Notre Dame Academy Finally Aces; Newton South Ends Long Wait; Martha's Vineyard, Manchester Essex Back

The 2026 MIAA Girls Tennis Championships took to the duPont Courts at MIT on Saturday, June 13.

Among the four champions were a first-time winner, a school that hadn’t hoisted the trophy in almost 50 years, and two others that snapped much shorter droughts.

Newton South High School swept past Boston Latin School for its first state championship since 1977.

Division 1

Newton South High School avenged a loss in the regular season and ended a nearly half-century tournament drought in one fell swoop.

The top-seeded Lions left no doubt at the end of the 2026 regular season with a resounding 5-0 victory over league rival and No. 3 seed Boston Latin School. The championship was the first for the program since 1977, when Newton South made its only four previous title match appearances between 1975 and 1979.

Olivia Whitaker (6-4, 6-2), ccc and Manel Guermazi (7-5, 7-5) swept to victories in the Nos. 1-3 singles matches, respectively. The Lions added both doubles wins for good measure, with Sienna Solorza and Emily Zhu at No. 1 (3-6, 6-2, 6-2), and Lauren Sayers and Sofia Kovarzin at second doubles (6-3, 6-2).

Boston Latin, which split the regular-season matches in the Dual County League, was playing in its second final in three years but the Wolfpack fell short of their first title since winning three in a row from 2001-03.

After a couple of recent misses, Notre Dame Academy finally captured the program's first Division 2 state championship.

Division 2

Notre Dame Academy of Hingham finally secured the first state championship in program history, as the No. 1 seed Cougars cruised to a 4-1 victory over No. 2 seed Bedford High School.

After falling short in the Division 2 finals in 2021 and 2024, NDA swept the doubles matches and added a pair of key victories in singles to clinch the match.

Clara Healey and Vivienne LaGrassa took their first doubles match (7-5, 6-1), and the tandem of Caroline Kessler and Christi Schwartz also swept to a 6-2, 6-4 win at No. 2.

No. 1 singles player Sophia Lirio cruised to a 6-0, 6-1 win, and NDA wrapped it up with Skye Bunge at No. 3 singles (6-3, 6-2).

Bedford, which won its only previous state final appearance in 2012, got a strong 6-1, 6-0 win from Sylvie Denny-Brown at No. 2 singles.

Martha's Vineyard Regional High School avenged a 2025 final defeat by outlasting Dover-Sherborn High School.

Division 3

In the end, all eyes were on the No. 1 singles match, and Laina Dubin delivered a championship for No. 1 seed Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School.

Dubin pulled out a 6-1, 4-6, 6-2 victory and gave the Vineyarders the 3-2 win over No. 2 seed Dover-Sherborn High School for its first state championship since winning three in a row from 2015-2017. The victory also avenged a 5-0 Vineyard defeat to Dover-Sherborn on this same stage a year ago.

After dropping the first two matches, the Vineyard turned things around behind victories from Josey Johns at No. 3 singles (6-3, 6-4), followed by the No. 1 doubles team of Leah Thomson and Zoe Treitman (4-6, 6-1, 6-4).

The Raiders were denied a repeat despite victories from Sarah Ewing at No.2  singles (6-4, 6-1), and the second doubles tandem of Emma Motley and Sophia Wichman (6-1, 7-5).

Manchester Essex Regional High School is back on top in Division 4 for the first time since 2018.

Division 4

The history was stacked against No. 2 seed Manchester Essex Regional High School, but the Hornets rewrote it instead.

Manchester Essex swept the singles matches for a 3-2 victory over top seed Hamilton-Wenham Regional High School and avenged a 2025 title match defeat to its Cape Ann League rival.

Playing at No. 3 singles, Ellen Gilson pulled out a 6-2, 7-6 (7-1) victory to clinch the Hornets’ first state championship since 2018. Sarah Cort swept to a 6-1, 6-2 win at No. 1 singles, and Grace Scarbrough did nearly the same at No. 2 (6-2, 6-3).

Manchester Essex split the Cape Ann regular-season series with Hamilton-Wenham, both winning on their home courts. In winning four straight state titles entering this year, the Generals had beaten the Hornets both last year (5-0) and in 2023 (4-1).

The Generals got both points in doubles, as Gabriella Jewett and Madeline Fennell prevailed in a third-set super tiebreaker (10-7), and Evelyn Esdaile and Sofie Greene rolled to a 6-0, 6-2 win.

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