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BIIF tennis: Top seeds hold serve at championships

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RICK WINTERS/West Hawaii Today Hilo's Emily Soares jumps back to return a serve against Konawaena's Tayvia Yamagata in the girls BIIF singles championship match on Saturday. Soares won in straight sets.

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By RICK WINTERS
West Hawaii Today

KEAUHOU – It was business as usual at the BIIF tennis championships Saturday afternoon as Hawaii Preparatory Academy’s JJ Minakata and Hilo’s Emily Soares picked up straight set victories over their opponents to claim the boys and girls’ titles for the 2015 season.

Minakata — who had not dropped a set all season — took the first set off Parker’s Tim Schnorr in dominating 6-3 fashion.