Gilmour girls doubles team wins D-II tennis state championship

The doubles team of Grier Peckham and Abigail Lynch had themselves quite a weekend in the Cincinnati area.

On Oct. 16, Peckham, a junior, and her senior teammate Lynch won the Divison II girls tennis doubles state championshp at the Lindner Family Tennis Center in Mason.

Peckham and Lynch defeated Hathway Brown’s Anna Mills and Ava Kamensky in an all-Northeast Ohio state final.

The Gilmour duo took the first set, 6-2, then won the second set 7-6 (5) to secure the state championship. It is Peckham’s third state championship and Lynch’s first.

🥇🎾 STATE CHAMPIONS! 🎾‼️

Abigail Lynch & Grier Peckham are the 2026 OHSAA DII Doubles State Champions, defeating Hathaway Brown 6-2, 7-6 (5)! Grier claims her THIRD straight doubles title, while Abigail earns her FIRST career state championship! 🩶💙⚔️ Congratulations!#GoGA

Peckham/Lynch opened the tournament with a 6-0, 6-1 victory, then won 6-2, 6-4 in the quarterfinal round before ousting Niobe and Narella Beiersdorfter of Dayton Oakwood, 6-4, 6-2, in a state semifinal.

In other action at the D-II state tournament, Hawken’s doubles team of Valeria Kislyansky and Emery Grossman took third with a 7-5, 4-6, 6-1 victory over the Beiersdorfter sisters in the third-place match.

In D-II singles, Gilmour senior Ivan Karagirova won her first-round match, 7-6 (4), 6-1 before being elminated in the quarterfinal round.

At the D-I tournament, NDCL junior Ella Workinger won her first-round match, 6-0, 6-0, then was eliminated in the quarterfinal round by Cincinnati Hills’ Renee Harper, 6-4, 6-2.

In D-I doubles, the South tandem of Cara and Lindsay Nejak, both seniors, lost their first-round match, 6-1, 6-4, to Toledo St. Ursula’s Paige Schlageter and Taylor Kayse.