WOOSTER – Not all championships are created equal, and Bexley girls tennis phenom Amiya Bowles will remember her third consecutive Division II state singles title for myriad reasons.
Bowles gutted out more than 5 ½ hours on the court Friday at The College of Wooster, including her first dropped set in high school, but at the end of the day, she earned yet another first-place medal.
Bowles needed 3 hours, 52 minutes to outlast Cincinnati Indian Hill junior Martha Thompson 6-7 (8-10), 6-4, 6-4 in a semifinal, then took control much earlier in the final to sweep Pepper Pike Orange freshman Genevieve Hayden 6-4, 6-1…