Worn down and shorthanded during their fifth match in two weeks, the Justin-Siena High School girls tennis team dug deep and defeated Terra Linda 5-4 in a Marin County Athletic League road match on Wednesday.

Picking up their first varsity victories were the No. 2 doubles team of Jeanette Alvarez and Adrianna Schwartz, 6-3, 6-4, and No. 3 doubles partners Sarah Nolan and Tori Roomian, 6-4, 6-1.

In singles play for the Braves, Kelsea Thomas prevailed 6-4, 6-2 at No. 2; Krystalle Franz triumphed 7-6, 6-4 in a competitive match at No. 3; and Vianca Perez-Ruiz held on for a 6-3, 6-4 win at No. 4.

Maja Jeramaz lost by third-set tiebreak at No. 1 singles, 7-5, 4-6, 10-6, as did No. 2 doubles players Adrienne Marks and Mira Herrarte, 1-6, 6-2, 17-15.

“We, like the water polo team, suffered from having a couple girls unavailable on retreat. However, our team did a great job rising to the occasion,” Justin-Siena coach Chris Swain said. “We have a young team and a lot of room for skill development. It has been a rough first couple of weeks of the season because we have had three matches each week, which leaves little time for practice.”

After they host Novato at 4 p.m. Friday, the Braves will have two matches a week.

“That gives us a little more practice time to focus on those shots and tactics that will make us more successful as a team,” Swain said. “I am very proud of the way the girls played today, but also know we have a lot of room for growth. We need to work on our mental and match toughness; we lost a couple of matches in tiebreaks — not particularly because we were outplayed, but our girls need to build that competitive and focused approach to playing, which will hopefully lead to wins in close matches in the future.”

Girls Golf

• Wood 252, Napa 274

The Indians dropped the Monticello Empire League match Tuesday in very windy weather at Cypress Lakes Golf Course in Vacaville.

Emily Meehan (51), Lauren Bain (53), Lindsay Kenyon (55), Claire Troussieux (56), Michelle Rompel (57), Adi Zweier (59), Maria O’Byrne (61) and Danielle Di Simoni (69) played for Napa (1-1 MEL).

Cross Country

• Vintage boys 25, Vacaville 30

• Vacaville girls 15, Vintage (incomplete)

The Vintage varsity boys trailed at the halfway point, then used strong second-half surges to beat Vacaville, 25-30, on Wednesday and improve to 2-0 in MEL action.

Andrew Deck led the way, pulling away from the second-place finisher with a half-mile to go to win by 24 seconds in 17:11 on the three-mile course. Dylan Buterbaugh went from sixth to finish fourth in 18:06, and Dominic Molinari finished fifth in 18:09. Newcomer Zach Wagner (seventh, 18:51) and sophomore Michael Deck (eighth, 19:00) rounded out the Crushers’ scorers. Rudy Reyes came in 12th in 20:00 and Taylor Daniels finished 13th in 21:00.

Vintage’s girls could not field a full team, but Robin Pisor had a strong showing, finishing the course in 24:25. Alora Alexander, battling injuries, and Lanie Peterson, were the Crushers’ other runners.

The frosh-soph boys were led by Eric Zoller and Brady Bickham, both in 14:46 on the two-mile course. Mitchell Cooledge (15:33) and Andy Decoteau (15:58) also had top-10 finishes.

• Napa boys 15, Armijo 47

• Napa girls 20, Armijo 35

At Alston Park on a cool and very windy day, Napa took both varsity races and the boys frosh/soph race.

In the 2.92-mile boys varsity race, Kurt Ruegg was first (17:14), Matt Lewis was second (17:58), Marc Moody was third (18:18), Ted Doshier was fourth (18:24), Sanjay Gajiwala was fifth (18:38, personal record), Adam Ruggerio was seventh (19:05, PR), Matt O’Malley    was ninth (19:31), Dakota Salazar was 11th (19:59), Marco Delaroche was 12th (20:05, PR), and Alfred Soria was 13th (20:07). Other finishers were Alex Manter (20:20, PR), Conor Fitzpatrick (20:42, PR), and Davis Hoffman (21:51, PR).

In the 2.92-mile varsity girls race, Trella Chrisco was first (21:45), Taylor Willis second (22:28), Leah McCann third (22:38), Amanda Conroy sixth (23:47, PR), Jessica Beeman eighth (24:37), Haley Brown ninth (26:36), Kelsey McCoy 10th (26:36), Monica Baird 11th (26:54), Catie Kensok 12th (27:09), Sierra Smith 13th (27:26), and Paige Tsai 14th (27:37).

In the 1.91-mile boys JV race, Napa’s finishers were Jorge Hernandez (14:22), Gabe Reyes (14:39), and Andreas Akbik    (14:56).

• Napa frosh-soph boys 22, Armijo 35

Napa’s top finishers in the 1.91-mile race were Gage Hansen, second (11:45); Craig Kaemmer, third (11:51); Will Brazelton, fourth (12:06); Greg Bucher, sixth (12:25); Bruno Suttles, seventh (12:26); David Park, 10th (13:07); Thinus Venter, 11th (13:47); Joey Mauceri, 13th (14:13); Jake Choe, 15th (14:30); and Ryan Corro, 16th (15:05).

No team score was kept in the 1.91-mile frosh-soph girls race. Marie Panchesson was first (14:46), Molly Baird was second (14:52), Jane Orozco was third (15:29), and Michela Biale was fourth (15:31).

• Justin-Siena boys 19,

San Marin 43

• Justin-Siena boys 24, Branson 34

• San Rafael boys 27,

Justin-Siena 28

On Wednesday afternoon, the Justin-Siena cross country teams competed against San Rafael, San Marin and Branson.

 The boys team was led by John Masyczek, who finished third in a field of 40 runners. Masyczek completed the 2.9-mile race in a time of 17:17.

Also running for the Braves were Kevin Cardey (fifth in 17:25), Jon Lund (eighth in 17:44), Austin Hyatt (ninth in 17:56), Nick Kinda (13th in 18:31), Guillermo Lopez (18th in 20:07) and Scott Brown (20th in 20:27).

• Justin-Siena girls 15,

San Marin (incomplete)

• Justin-Siena girls 29, Branson 30

• San Rafael girls 16,

Justin-Siena 43

The Braves’ girls team was led by Erin Kinda, who finished sixth out of 28 runners in a time of 21:58.

Additional runners for the Braves were Leslie Johnson (ninth in 22:50), Brooke Bainum (10th in 22:53), Laura Marks (25:59), Taylor Long (26:04) and Daniella DeLaat (27:17).

Both the boys and girls teams now have 2-1  MCAL records.

Varsity Volleyball

• Justin-Siena 3, San Marin 0

Kyleigh McAhren bashed a season-high 16 kills as the Braves won their MCAL opener, 25-15, 25-19, 25-22, at home on Wednesday night. Kelsey Scanlon added six kills and Lizette Jaeger four kills and two aces for Justin-Siena (4-2 overall).

Junior Varsity Volleyball

• Justin-Siena 2, San Marin 0

Shea Boles served up seven aces as well as the last 12 points of the first game as the Braves won Wednesday’s MCAL opener, 25-11, 25-16. Megan Castelucci chipped in six digs and Nicole Stanowski five digs for the Braves (4-1 overall).

Freshman Volleyball

• Justin-Siena 2, San Marin 0

Kaitlin Long had eight aces and Jen Cardey added three as the Braves picked up their first win of the season, 25-10, 25-7 in their MCAL debut on Wednesday.

Boys Soccer

• Vintage 1, University 1

Five minutes after University-San Francisco took a 1-0 lead midway through the second half of Wednesday’s nonleague match at Napa Memorial Stadium, the Crushers’ Rica Moreno scored the equalizer.

“They’re a pretty good team,” Vintage coach Dennis Sweeney said of the visitors, but we dwelled too much with the ball — too much thinking about scoring instead of doing it.”

The coach praised the midfield play of Pancho Martinez. Vintage (7-3-1 overall) will take a 4-0 MEL record into Saturday night’s showdown against crosstown rival Napa.