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Lady Hornets Tennis
9/18/2023 at Bishop LeBlond 6, Chillicothe 3
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Story by Coach Chambers
The Chillicothe girls' tennis team traveled once again
to Noyes' Tennis Complex this week to battle the LeBlond team in an
MEC dual. The night started off strong with two doubles wins even
though Chillicothe's #4 Micah Crowe, #7 Keeley Shira, and #8 Sarah
George had all taken a rest day. Veteran seniors Rylee Washburn and
Isabella Garr squeaked out an intense match in a tie break to give
the Hornets one win while Bryton BeVelle and Keonnia Morgan played a
great match in #2 Doubles but barely lost 6-8. However, in another
highlight of the night, varsity newcomer junior Bianca Clark and the
team's typical #10 player sophomore Rian Mathews grabbed a very hard
fought doubles match, winning 8-5. Monday was Rian's first ever
varsity match as she stepped up to fill the big shoes of
Chillicothe's absent players. She played confidently, and the CHS
coaches' were excited she was able to see some varsity playing time
and success before she aims for bigger goals with varsity next year.
Going into singles' play, the lady hornets were at 2-1,
but individual play ended up to be far too tough against the high
quality LeBlond team as the lady hornets dropped five of the six
singles matches. Junior Keonnia Morgan dominantly handled her
singles match to help the final team score end up 3-6 in favor of
Leblond. And even the #6 singles match resulted in a loss, Coaches
Chambers and Pyrtle were excited to give sophomore Summer Gatson
(typically team #9) her first ever varsity match as well. Summer
gained a lot of confidence in her ground stroke throughout the match
and felt motivated to work harder this off-season now that she has
witnessed varsity level play.
Junior varsity also saw a tough night of play losing
all of their matchups especially under short sets of four since
LeBlond could only field four JV players. The hornets play again
Tuesday night at Excelsior Springs in a team dual.
Monday's specific scores were as follows:
Rylee Washburn & Isabella Garr beat Emily Weddle & Iris Ideker 9-8
(tiebreak 7-4).
Bryton BeVelle & Keonnia Morgan lost to Hillary Bui & Ireland
Robertson 6-8.
Bianca Clark & Rian Mathews beat Kimber Weber & Demi Swope 8-5.
Washburn lost to Weddle 6-8.
Garr lost to Ideker 0-8.
BeVelle lost to Bui 2-8.
Clark lost to Robertson 3-8.
Morgan beat Weber 8-4.
Summer Gatson lost to Swope 1-8.
Jasmine McLean & Sarah Boon lost to their opponents 1-4.
Sophia Littleton & Anya Moore lost to their opponents 4-5 (tiebreak
5-7).
Arisha Shafiq & Trixie Leppin lost to their opponents 1-4.
Kierra Williams & Leighton Kelly lost to their opponents 1-4.
Lexy Lybarger & Arisha Shafiq lost to their opponents 1-4.
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