We traveled over to rival Rock Hill High School last night to battle the Bearcats as well as some serious wind conditions. The Trojans are now 5-5 overall and 4-3 in region. Without scores being known from tonight, I am willing to bet that we stand in 4th place behind Fort Mill (7-0), Clover (6-1), and Rock Hill (5-2). These are the records I am predicting each to have if Fort Mill and Clover won their respective matches.
Thunder Beaver again proved to be a force to be reckoned with at 4 singles this year. Zach blitzed ahead to a 6-0 first set before falling behind 0-4 in the second set. I asked Zach what was going on and what had turned the match around. He replied that the wind had just really started to pick up, but felt that he had it under control now. Zach was correct. He went on to win another 6 games in a row and claim a victory for us by score of 6-0, 6-4.
Our two longest and entertaining matches came from Seth Russell and Jeff Zimmerman at the top two singles lines. Seth dropped his first set 5-7 at 2 singles, before storming back in the second set and winning 6-4 and thus force the tiebreak for the 2 singles match. It was interesting to watch this match unfold as the gusty wind seemed to take Seth's opponent out of his game, but Seth never seemed to be shaken by it. In the tiebreak, Seth played even through the first changeover and then fell behind to drop the line by tiebreak of 5-10.
Jeff's match at 1 singles was an all out slugfest with Glen Thomason from Rock Hill standing strong against Jeff's serves and playing some heat right back. Both players made hustle plays and dramatic shots throughout the match. Unfortunately, Jeff dropped the first set 3-6 before dropping the second set 6-7 with a close tiebreak score of 7-9 in Rock Hill's favor.
The remaining matches were all competitive for the most part. Drayton Wade fell behind big early, but made a push before fallin in a close second set. Alex Atzberger played a good opponent at 3 singles and competed well in the first set. Rock Hill High played remarkable doubles tonight. Their 2 doubles team was strong against Brian Fitzpatrick & Eric Sabin and the 1 doubles team played with fire that we seemed to be lacking after the match had already been decided.
We'll be back on the road Thursday as we travel to Lancaster to start round 2 of the region matches. Their matches are played at USC Lancaster for those unfamiliar and our bus will be loading up and ready to leave Northwestern at 4 PM.
Go Trojans!
Box Score:
1S: Glen Thomason (R) def Jeff Zimmerman (N) 6-3, 7-6
2S: Alic McGlauchlin (R) def Seth Russell (N) 7-5, 4-6, 10-5
3S: Austin Lee (R) def Alex Atzberger (N) 6-3, 6-1
4S: Zach Beaver (N) def Jared McCoy (R) 6-0, 6-4
5S: Kevin Gauldin (R) def Drayton Wade (N) 6-1, 6-4
1D: Thomason/Lee (R) def Zimmerman/Russell (N) 8-5
2D: Nihal Patel/Mitesh Patel (R) def Brian Fitzpatrick/Eric Sabin (N)6-1, 6-1
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