Ottawa seniors Zulee Moreland and Yaquelin Hernandez-Solis played on separate doubles teams as sophomores, as the top two singles players last season, but this fall they’ve now pooled their collective talents as the Pirates No. 1 doubles team.

The Pirates top duo picked up a 6-1, 7-5 victory over La Salle-Peru juniors Addi Piecha and April Pescetto in the Henderson-Guenther Tennis Facility at Ottawa High School to help their team to a 4-1 Interstate 8 Conference triumph over the rival Cavaliers on Tuesday.

Ottawa improved to 8-0 overall and 3-0 in league play.

“I was playing at singles at the beginning of this season, but I had a bit of a tweak in my groundstoke,” said Moreland, the reigning Times Girls Tennis Player of the Year. “I was very inconsistent and having trouble keeping th

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