Newburgh Free Academy’s Vivenne Bucci is going back to the New York State girls’ tennis tournament.

Bucci suffered a 6-2, 6-1 loss to Middletown’s Sasha Henesy at the Section 9 championship tournament on Thursday to finish second. It was the second time in the postseason that Bucci has lost to Henesy.

They faced off each other about a week earlier in the Orange County Interscholastic Athletic Association tournament, where Bucci also finished second.

The top 3 Section 9 place finishers will advance to the New York State tournament, which started on Monday at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing. Warwick’s Piper Stewen will join them at the state tournament after beating Washingtonville’s Maddy Kantor in the in the third-place match.

Bucci sent Kantor to the consolation round with a 6-2, 6-2 win in the semifinals.

Bucci opened the tournament on Wednesday with two straight 6-0, 6-0 victories. She opened the tournament by beating Red Hook’s Coco Hamilton and then dispatched her own Newburgh teammate, Naomi Alessi in the quarterfinals. Alessi got there with a 6-4, 6-3 win over Spackenkill’s Allison Lee.

Newburgh’s Sofia Orduna advanced to the quarterfinals before she was beaten by Kantor, 6-3, 6-3. She opened the tournament with a 6-0, 6-0 win over New Paltz’ Margo Ogden-Kosofsky.

Bucci will look to improve on last year’s state tournament performance, when she was eliminated after her first match, 6-4, 6-1 to Scotia-Glenville’s Isabella Amurao.