Coming in as the No. 4 seed at the state tennis championships, Redmond’s Brynn Capps and Grace Stott weren’t sure where they would finish. But after four matches, they were the last of 16 doubles pairs standing to claim the Class 5A doubles title.

With the title Saturday afternoon at the Babbette Horenstein Tennis Center in Beaverton, Capps and Stott became the first Redmond girls tennis players to win a singles or a doubles state title.

“We just stayed in the moment,” Stott said. “We played for each other, and played for our school. We stayed out of our heads, and that helped us get to where we are.”

Added Capps: “There was not a lot of thought we would get to where we were. We just came together as a duo and rose to the top.”

Capps and Stott, both seniors, began their run to a title at the West Hills Racquet and Fitness Center in Beaverton on Friday, with a 6-1, 6-3 win over Silverton’s Kaitlyn Gehring and Maggie Davisson. They followed that up with a 6-1, 6-2 win over Summit’s Amara Diliberto and Kate Swigert.

Facing the tournament’s top-seeded pair, Crescent Valley’s Zoe Hughes and Anna Nguyen, Capps and Stott once again won in straight sets 6-4, 7-5 to pull off the upset and advance to the title match.

“We went into the match with the mindset that we didn’t have anything to lose but everything to gain,” Stott said. “We hit some waves, but we just stayed together as a team.

The town of Redmond became the hub of 5A tennis, because waiting for Capps and Stott in the championship match was a doubles team from their crosstown rivals.

Ridgeview’s unseeded duo of Sydney Cassaro and Darrian Streater worked its way through Crescent Valley’s Victoria Singhara and Natalie Yong in the first round(6-2, 6-3); Silverton’s Paige and Ashlyn Davisson in the second round 6-3, 7-5); and Wilsonville’s Julia Tatsumi and Katie Scoggins in the semifinals (6-1, 6-3).

Cassaro and Streater gave the champs a match. After Capps and Stott won the first set 6-1, Cassaro and Streater won the second set 7-5 (5) to draw even. But Capps and Stott again won 6-1 the third and decisive set to claim the title.

“We have been working for this for the last four years,” Stott said. “There is so much happiness and joy right now.”

Summit boys take second

Aided by two doubles pairs and singles players reaching the semifinals, the Summit boys finished one point shy of repeating as state team champions.

La Salle took the team title with 19 points, one ahead of Summit’s 19. Caldera — with Aiden Cruz taking third in the singles — finished fourth with five points.

Alex Lindsay and Alex Berg, the third-seeded pair in the field, advanced all the way to the championship round where they ultimately fell to La Salle’s Aidan McBride and Ryder McCoy-Hansen in straight sets (6-2, 6-3). Noah Wood and Bobby Bloom also made runs to the doubles semifinals for the Storm.

Max Himstreet made a run to the semifinals after beating Bend High’s Parks Vodak in the quarterfinals, but fell to eventual champion Richard Wang of Crescent Valley in the semis.

With 11 points, the Summit girls tied for second with La Salle in the final 5A team standings behind Crescent Valley, which won its third straight state team title with 12 points.

Freshman Kate Bonetto won her first two matches on Friday, then fell to Crescent Valley’s Emily Gu in three sets. Bonetto then won the third-place match 6-2, 6-2 over Veronica Miller.