Story by Coach
Sophie Chambers
CHS Girls Tennis Snags Second Conference Win in a
Week.The lady hornets' tennis team moved to 2-2 in MEC play on
Thursday night after dominantly beating the Benton lady cardinals at
Danner Park 8-1. With continued hot weather, the hornets were glad
to quickly and strongly win almost all their matches with just a few
matches going down to close scores. Coach Chambers was proud of how
confidently all of her players handled themselves. She can tell that
the tough tournaments they entered early on in the season are paying
off now with physical stamina and mental fortitude seen when girls
dispute calls properly and stand up for the correct process and when
they battle back from being down in games.
Thursday night, #1 singles player Micah Crowe hit the
longest rallies every point with her opponent, and while the match
did not go Crowe's way, she played beautiful tennis the entire
match. Keeley Shira, Jasmine McLean, and Summer Gatson all handedly
held their opponents quickly. Sarah George found herself down 4-7
about to lose her #5 singles match but calmly battled back to pick
up five straight games to win 9-7. Doubles proved much closer with
Crowe and George win quickest. Bianca Clark and Shira played an
incredibly tight match at #1 doubles where they found themselves
down by one game at each change over until mid-match when they
finally picked up two games in a row to take the lead. They squeaked
out a win right at the end 9-7 with confident partner play and great
communication. And finally, McLean and Gatson had a heated doubles
match with lots of back-and-forth scoring, calls, and questions.
Coach Chambers was initially worried that these younger new varsity
players would become frazzled by the tense situation, but she was
impressed to see both athletes stay calm and fight their way back
for a win as well, which shows tremendous growth over the past month
of play.
Results :
#1 Doubles -- Clark & Shira beat Alyssa Martinez & Bella Thomas 9-7
#2 Doubles -- Crowe & George beat Kenna Guyer & Riley Kretzer 8-1
#3 Doubles -- McLean & Gatson beat Jade Mabion & Gina Lesny 8-6
#1 Singles -- Crowe lost to Thomas 2-8
#2 Singles -- Clark beat Martinez by forfeit
#3 Singles -- Shira beat Guyer 8-1
#4 Singles -- McLean beat Mabion 8-0
#5 Singles -- George beat Lesny 9-7
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