“In-your-face tennis was the game for Falcon Jenny Saephan starting in the first round of the state tournament. She and her partner, Kylie Bozym, won the first individual tennis title for South Whidbey in 12 years.Matt Johnson / staff photoKylie Bozym and Jenny Saephan made an old coach very happy Saturday afternoon. Having earned their way into a 2A state championship doubles tennis match by winning two qualifying matches the day before, the two Falcon juniors overcame early jitters in the first set of matches against the defending state champions from Cashmere and won the first South Whidbey individual girls tennis title in 12 years.The win was the jewel in the second-place 2A state team crown the Falcons brought home from Yakima Saturday night on the strength of Bozym and Saephan’s win and a fourth-place doubles finish by South Whidbey’s Paige Jolley and Kaitlin King.The team’s coach, Tom Kramer, who led his girls to a team championship last year, said having a doubles team rise to the top of its own accord was something he has wanted for years.Our kids were still bouncing around the van when we hit the ferry, Kramer said.Some of that bouncing was no doubt left over from the nervousness the five Falcon state qualifiers took into their matches. Kylie Bozym said she and her partner had the shakes during the first set of the championship match, even though they had easily dispatched an Ephrata team 6-1, 6-2, and a Connell team 6-2, 6-3 the day before.Facing Cashmere’s best doubles team in Saturday’s final – which already had one state championship to its credit – was nerveracking. Bozym said she found herself missing easy shots and serving into the net in the first set of the match, mistakes that allowed the set to go into a tiebreaker. It was not what the partners wanted, especially considering that they were laboring in 90-plus degree heat.I was trying too hard, she said.The pair fell behind 1-5 in the tiebreak before they found their confidence to win 7-5 for the 7-6 set win. After that, they cruised through a 6-1 second set to win the match.While Bozym and Saephan struggled through, Jolley and King were playing for fourth place on an adjoining court. In a way, the pair played almost the same match as their champion teammates. With Coach Kramer standing in the gallery, pivoting to watch both his doubles teams simultaneously, Jolley and King played themselves into a 6-6 first-set tie with an Ephrata team before they won a 7-3 tiebreaker. The second set went faster, with the Falcon girls prevailing 6-2 for a 2-0 match win.Having lost their opening match and won their second, a win in the final match fulfilled the pair’s goals. We just wanted to do well, Jolley said. It was so fun.Freshman singles player Jenny Newman did not make it as far into the tournament as her teammates. She wound up losing to two of the tournament’s top singles players in her two matches and did not place.Kaitlin King, who is a senior, is the only state player who will not return to the Falcon lineup next year. “