The boys took on Clover in a game of tornado tennis this evening. Winds that gusted up to 25mph created some interesting points in the match. Clover was too much in the end as we dropped a 0-7 decision. The loss drops us to 4-4 overall and 2-3 in our region. We are in 4th place out of the six schools with Fort Mill in 1st, Clover in 2nd, Nation Ford in 3rd, us in 4th, York in 5th, and Gaffney in 6th.
We had a great effort tonight at 1 doubles. Seth Russell and Drayton Wade hung with the #1 & #3 from Clover all the way into a tiebreaker. The bounces didn't go our way in the end as Clover held on for the win 8-7.
Alex Antezana played a strong match at 5 singles tonight. After a close first set was dropped 6-4, Alex displayed some nifty drop shots against Clover's #5 to make some great passes and claim the second set in a tiebreak. The decisive 3rd set tiebreak had Alex leading 7-5 at the second changeover. Unfortunately, Clover got hot and won 5 of the next 6 points to claim line 5.
Clover only had 8 players tonight so there was only one reserve match. Duncan Foy proved victorious in a tiebreak proset over his Clover opponent. Our reserve matches remain a positive thing for us to build upon as a team. We have claimed victories against every school we played this year.
We'll practice tomorrow at 4 in preparation of our road match Thursday to York High. This is an important match as York is much improved and we are leading them by only 1 region match. We'll take a larger than normal travel squad Thursday and I'll notify the team tomorrow of their travel status.
Go Trojans!
Box Score:
Location: Northwestern
Result: Clover 7, Northwestern 0
1s: Chase Altieri def Seth Russell 6-1, 6-2
2s: Nick Deahl def Drayton Wade 6-2, 6-2
3s: Will Decker def Brian Fitzpatrick 6-0, 6-0
4s: Kenneth Long def Hunter Love 6-0, 6-0
5s: Josh Watts def Alex Antezana 6-4, 6-7(5) 10-8
1d: Altieri/Decker def Russell/Wade 8-7 (4)
2d: Dylan Waggonseller/JC Dougherty def Jordan Beaver/Jonathan Clark 6-3, 6-2
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