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oa Goldstein and her doubles
partner defeated the only team
that had beaten them all season.
Carly Bernard and her doubles
partner recovered nicely from the only
set they lost all season.
Those are the stories behind the
doubles state championships won by
Goldstein and Bernard last month as
they helped the Bloomfield Hills High
School girls tennis team earn a share of
the Division 1 team state title with Ann
Arbor Pioneer.
The team state championship was the
first ever for the Bloomfield Hills girls
tennis team. The high school opened in
2013 following the closing and merger
of Bloomfield Hills Andover and
Bloomfield Hills Lahser high schools.
Goldstein and Hannah Tomina,
seeded No. 2, beat No. 1-seeded Claire
and Kate Beardslee from Grosse Pointe

South 6-2, 6-2 in the No. 1 doubles
state championship match, a few weeks
after the Grosse Pointe South team beat
Goldstein and Tomina 6-4, 7-5.
“Oh, yes, we had a ton of incentive
to beat them in the state championship
match. We really wanted to beat
them,” Goldstein said. “We had such
as amazing season, and we wanted to
finish it with a victory.”
It didn’t hurt, Goldstein admitted,
that the Grosse Pointe South team had
a very tough state semifinal match,
beating Troy’s Angela Anderanin and
Sabrina Song 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (3), while
Goldstein and Tomina cruised past
Pioneer’s Ashley Capelli and Juliana
Pullen 6-1, 6-2 in the semifinals.
Anderanin and Song were the No.
4-seeded team. Capelli and Pullen were
the No. 3-seeded team.
Several factors played into their

earlier loss to the Grosse Pointe South
team, Goldstein said.
“Hannah wasn’t 100% the first time
we played them. She had an injured
wrist,” Goldstein said. “But the Grosse
Pointe South girls were the better team
that day. You have to give them credit.
And we didn’t bring enough energy to
the match.”
Bernard and Reagen Tomina, the
No. 1-seeded team, outlasted Troy’s
Stephanie Ochoa and Grace Zhu 7-6
(2), 4-6, 7-5 in the No. 2 doubles state
championship match.
“Super duper close” is how Bernard
described the match against the No.
2-seeded Troy girls.
Bernard and Reagen Tomina got off
to a great start in the first two sets,
sprinting to a 3-0 lead each time. But
the Troy team came roaring back.
The loss in the second set was a first
for Bernard and Reagen Tomina. It was
the first time they dropped a set all
season.
They didn’t have time to think about
it. Not with the third set of the match
looming that would decide the state
championship.
Bernard and Reagen Tomina finished
the match strong, pulling out the victory
after the teams battled to a 4-4 tie.
“We beat that Troy team very early
in the season,” Bernard said. “They
improved a lot since then, and so did
we.”

THRILLED TO BE BACK
After not playing last spring because of
the COVID-19 pandemic, Goldstein and
Bernard were thrilled to get back on the
court this season.
Winning state championships was
icing on the cake for the juniors, whose
doubles partners (Hannah Tomina
and Reagen Tomina are sisters) were
selected by Bloomfield Hills coach
Chris Dobson.

Bloomfi
eld Hills High
School girls tennis
players Noa Goldstein
and Carly Bernard win
state championships.

Drama
on the
Courts

STEVE STEIN
CONTRIBUTING WRITER

SPORTS

MICHAEL BERNARD

Noa Goldstein
(left) and Carly
Bernard cele-
brate their state
championships.