Between Brittany Poje of East Stroudsburg South and Jenna Peng of Parkland, there is plenty of District 11 tournament know-how to go around. Poje was the event's runner-up as a freshman, and the defending champion from last year as a sophomore, while Peng was third as a sophomore and second as a junior one year ago.

With all of those accomplishments, this season saw the two talented student-athletes go undefeated through the season and the first four rounds of this year's Class AAA district singles bracket, to set up a show down in the final.

Despite the familiarity between the two and the numerous occasions they have squared off against each other previous to Monday's battle, the match proved to serve as a showcase for stellar play and strong efforts.

When the dust settled, it was Poje who celebrated the straight-set victory over the Trojan senior, as she swept through Peng, 6-3, 6-1 to repeat as the D-11 AAA singles champion.

Poje's relentlessness, speed, depth, along with a brilliant serve made relatively quick work of the Parkland player.

"Brittany made very few mistakes today," Parkland tennis coach George Grim said. "Jenna made more mistakes today than she normally does, but then again, she was playing against a very good player.

"Brittany kept her shots deep and didn't allow Jenna to come in to the net that much, and Brittany is very athletic and was getting to the short shots with ease, too."

Often times, when players face off against each other numerous times, it gets harder to figure out effective strategies against each other. The familiarity with the other's game allows for traditional weaknesses to be exposed, along with methods to combat the other's strengths. Poje did exactly that against a great player of Peng's ability.

"I know how she plays because I've played against her so many times," Poje related. "Between my freshman year, last year and this year, I knew that I was going up against a great player in Jenna today. Compared to other matches and other opponents, today I had to try to hit the ball deep so she wouldn't be able to put that heavy top spin on the ball and push me around the court."

Her strategy went into effect early on, as both players held to begin the match. Poje broke in the third game and followed with a hold of her own to consolidate the break, moving to a 3-1 lead. The ensuing game proved to be huge, as the Trojan needed to come up with a must-hold situation.

Facing a 40-15 deficit, Peng followed with a service winner and a Poje backhand error made it deuce. An offensive-minded Peng put away an overhead to take the advantage and Peng followed with another point of aggression. The Cavalier's scrambling yielded a defensive lob that went deep enough in Peng's court, causing an error on the overheard to put the score back to deuce. Two straight Peng errors gave up the game and Poje went up 4-1.

In the next game, three Peng errors made the score 1-5 with Poje serving, but that's when the ever-important momentum switched back in Peng's favor.

Peng won the following two games to battle back to 3-5, but the champ eventually broke serve in the ninth game to put the first set away.

"[Brittany] played tough today and didn't give me many free points," Peng said. "It was definitely hard for me out there. I think today, she was just so consistent and whatever strategy I tried obviously didn't work too well. I was thinking I had a chance [near the end of the first set and beginning of the second], but ultimately, I made too many mistakes and I couldn't really get back out from that deficit."

Peng won the Lehigh Valley Conference No. 1 singles title, and the loss to Poje was her first of the season. However, only the district champion moves on to the state tournament. Peng will now play in this week's district doubles tournament.

"We went undefeated this season, as a team, and I think we have a really good chance in doubles, so I am looking forward to next week," Peng said.