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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.

