The conditions weren’t ideal, but for the Syosset girls tennis team, it didn’t matter.

Syosset (20-1) fought through wind gusts reaching 20 miles per hour to earn its third consecutive Long Island large school championship. The team defeated Suffolk County champion Half Hollow Hills East, 6-1, on Saturday at Cold Spring Harbor.

It was first doubles pair Tiffany Cai and Selena Wang who clinched the title with three matches to go in a 6-2, 6-2 bout against Half Hollow Hills East pair Samantha Heyman and Emma Wilck. A seventh-grader, Cai may be small in stature, but her presence on the court is massive.

“It’s my first year on the team, so I feel honored to be in the clinching match,” Cai said. “Both [Heyman and Wilck] were really good at the baseline and could hit really hard, but we just

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