Story & Photo by Coach
Chambers
After a summer full of construction, the Chillicothe girls'
tennis team hosted their season home opener on the beautiful new
courts at Danner Park on Monday night. Thanks to the generosity of
the Livingston County Commissioners and the Chillicothe Parks
Department, the entire tennis complex was renovated over the past
three months, and the Kirksville Lady Tigers came for the lady
hornets' home opener dual. CHS walked away from the night dominantly
successful with a varsity team 8-1 victory.
The night started fast with quick and strong doubles'
wins on all three varsity courts while JV play started off strong in
doubles as well. Then, in Singles, the lady hornets started off
slow. At one point, five of the six Chillicothe singles' players
found themselves losing. However, all but one of the lady hornets
were able to mount impressive comebacks from their deficits. It was
exciting to watch the last few weeks' worth of work at difficult
tournaments pay off when CHS was able to maintain the mental
fortitude to battle back in their matches. Micah Crowe found herself
losing by one almost her entire match, but in the last three games,
she held off her #1 opponent to clinch a victory. Keeley Shira and
Sarah George also found themselves down a game against the #4 and #6
respectively but fought back for the win. Finally, Jasmine McClean
started her #5 singles competition down 0-5 with the match almost
finished, but she slowly chipped away at that score to eventually
come back and win 8-6.
JV also had a strong showing as all 25 lady hornet team
members got to play against Kirksville's equally large squad. Many
of the athletes got two matches each, which rarely happens for JV,
including some singles matches in fact.
Varsity scores
Team Score -- Chillicothe 8 - Kirksville 1
#1 Doubles -- Micah Crowe & Keonnia Morgan beat Darnel & Manikandan
8-0
#2 Doubles -- Bianca Clark & Keeley Shira beat Gardner & Shoop 8-1
#3 Doubles -- Jasmine McLean & Summer Gatson beat Snyder & Dawson
8-2
#1 Singles -- Crowe beat Darnel 8-6
#2 Singles -- Morgan lost to Manikandan 7-9
#3 Singles -- Clark beat Gardner 8-4
#4 Singles -- Shira beat Shoop 8-5
#5 Singles -- McLean beat Snyder 9-7
#6 Singles -- Sarah George beat Dawson 9-7
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