On the state's biggest stage, the WPIAL provided a standout performance at the PIAA girls' tennis championships yesterday in Hershey, Pa.

The WPIAL won two of four titles, claiming the Class AAA singles and doubles titles at the Hershey Racquet Club.

Latrobe's Joelle Kissell captured the Class AAA singles championship by edging defending champion Tessa Lyons of Strath Haven, 4-6, 6-2, 6-3. Kissell was defeated by Lyons in the semifinals last season.

It was an all-WPIAL matchup in Class AAA doubles, as Peters Township's Julie Stroyne and Caroline Nixon defeated Pine-Richland's Olivia Heim and Taylor Perz, 6-1, 6-3. The runners-up a season ago, Stroyne and Nixon had lost a three-set heartbreaker to Heim and Perz in the WPIAL finals last month.

The WPIAL nearly claimed a third title, but Chartiers-Houston's Tanya Timko fell short of claiming her second career PIAA championship when she was defeated by Lancaster Country Day's Julia Casselbury, 6-4, 7-5, in Class AA singles.

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