ENFIELD, Conn. – An unusual sort of quiet hung over the deciding set. The atmosphere had changed entirely.

No passing cars. No chirping birds. No resounding cheers. Just tennis, stripped down to its purest form.

Anaya Mohani and Maia Oh stood in a winner-take-all arena. The two had battled through uncommon contests before, and were familiar with this kind of environment.

But resuming a match indoors, with one set left to decide their team’s fate, was an unprecedented setting.

Check that off the unwritten bucket list.

Ushered forward by Mohani and Oh’s three-set clinch at second doubles, No. 1 Longmeadow girls’ tennis (22-0) survived an upset bid from No. 8 Milton (12-7) in the MIAA Division II state quarterfinals Friday.

A match ultimately won 3-2 by the Lancers began at Longmeadow H

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