WAILEA, Maui — The Punahou juggernaut finished its romp through the Carlsmith Ball/HHSAA State Tennis Championships yesterday by sweeping the singles, doubles and team titles for boys and girls.

In fact, the biggest pressure on the Punahou players during the tournament was living up their school's storied tennis tradition that now includes 17 consecutive boys' team titles and five consecutive girls' team titles.

Boys' captain and No. 1 seed Skyler Tateishi defeated freshman Matt Westmoreland of Island Pacific Academy, 6-2, 6-2, on a newly resurfaced court at the Wailea Tennis Club. Tateishi, a senior bound for the University of Washington, said he knew the court would play slower, "so I wanted to take something off my serve and not hit it flat. I put spin on it to make him hit a lot of first serves back so he couldn't capitalize on second serves."

Westmoreland, the No. 7 seed, had worked his way up to the finals with scrappy victories over No. 2 seed Reid Kiyabu of Punahou and No. 3 seed Nathan Nakatsuka of Kamehameha Schools, but his surprise run came to an end against the more powerful Tateishi.

"He's just too tough ... He just killed me," Westmoreland said.

Punahou sophomore Kristin Lim was even more dominant, dropping a total of only eight games over five matches. Using aggressive baseline play, she easily defeated fifth-seeded Sara Yoshinaga of 'Iolani, 6-1, 6-2, for the girls' crown. Lim joins older brothers Robbie (2003 and 2004) and Mikey (2005 and 2006) as state singles champs from Punahou.

"She was very tough throughout the tournament. I'm not sure she was challenged very much," said Yoshinaga, a senior who will attend the University of Redlands in the fall.

Lim was part of the Punahou tandem that took the doubles title in 2006, and her partner from last year, Ashley Ohira, repeated this year, playing with partner Nicole Nakaoka. The Punahou duo, both juniors, beat unseeded Alyssa Shimizu and Erin Yamamoto from Mililani in the finals, 6-0, 6-3.

As if to underscore the strength and depth of Punahou's tennis program, the most competitive finals of the day involved the school's top boys pairs, No. 1-seeded Alex Ching and Erik Shoji and No. 2-seeded Hiroshi Hikida and Brad Takei. The two teams squared off in the Interscholastic League of Honolulu finals last month, with Ching-Shoji finishing on top, 6-4, 6-4.

The same duo prevailed again yesterday, 6-7 (6), 6-1, 6-3, in an intense battle that saw juniors Shoji and Ching request that linesmen be posted after several disputed calls in the first game. Normally, players are left to make the line calls.

"It was the toughest match we've played all season," said Shoji, son of University of Hawai'i Rainbow Wahine volleyball coach Dave Shoji.

The four Punahou players roomed together the night before their title match, but that didn't take the edge off their rivalry. "Because they're your teammates you want to keep in mind to be respectful. They're your best friends but in a way you want to beat them worse than your other opponents," Shoji said.

With little chance of surprising players so familiar with their game, Shoji and Ching relied on consistent play to carry them through three sets. "We knew we had to step it up a notch. We wanted to hit three or four balls back and hopefully they would miss," Shoji said.

Shoji also is an all-state outside hitter for the Buffanblu's champion volleyball squad, and with reshuffling of the high school sports schedule to match the college seasons in 2007-2008, the boys volleyball and tennis seasons will coincide next spring. Shoji said tennis is his "second sport" but he hopes to figure out a way to play both.

Yesterday's victory was Ching's second doubles title after winning in 2006 with partner Jon Wong against Shoji and Hikida.

For Punahou boys coach Rusty Komori, it was his 14th straight team title, the most consecutive championships won by a coach in any high school sport in Hawai'i.

"Every year it seems like a new challenge, but the tradition carries on year after year," he said. The seniors set the standard each season and the younger players "know they have to step up and that they've got big shoes to fill."

With only one senior among the six players who claimed singles and doubles titles yesterday, it would seem the tennis shoes already are a good fit.

In the boys' team standings, 'Iolani, Island Pacific and Pearl City finished in a three-way tie for second place behind Punahou. The Mililani girls were second in the team standings behind Punahou, followed by 'Iolani.

Reach Christie Wilson at cwilson@honoluluadvertiser.com.