We traveled up US-21 to take on region power Fort Mill tonight. Our scores do not fairly reflect how far we've come as a team. At the beginning of the season, I would have said we'd be lucky to win games off Fort Mill. Tonight, we were in pretty much every game and won our fair share.
Seth Russell played a tough match at 1 singles and nearly staged a first set comeback. In the end, his Fort Mill opponent cleaned up his errors and won 6-4, 6-1.
Drayton Wade played perhaps the only opponent in region that can match his foot speed. The Fort Mill #2 has a bombing first serve and some good touch that proved too much for us tonight.
Brian Fitzpatrick played a little tight in the first set. He seemed to relax in the second set as he took a couple games off of Fort Mill's #3.
Hunter Love was definitely successful in frustrating his opponent at 4 singles. Hunter played a lot of deep backspin shots that gave Fort Mill's #4 fits at times.
Jordan Beaver played a highly touted 7th grader at 5 singles. His Fort Mill opponent is known in the junior ranks for being a backboard of an opponent that tends to make few errors. Jordan forced him into several in the second set and had him a little frustrated towards the end.
Our 2 doubles team of Jonathan Clark & Duncan Foy played a very strong match against a pair of 6-footers from Fort Mill. They hung in there til the end and forced the tempo for the majority of the match. Although they dropped the match 3-6, 3-6, neither played intimidated and they should have a good shot at this line in our next match up with Fort Mill.
Our reserves continued to play well as we took a singles and doubles match from Fort Mill. Alex Antezana blew his opponent off the court 8-0. Collins Mauldin and Jonathan Patton were also successful with an 8-6 decision. Ahmad Sheffield nearly had a clean sweep of the reserves, but fell in a tiebreak 7-8.
We play at home tomorrow against Clover. We'll get our challenge matches started at 4:00 and the varsity will start at 5:00. Dress warm as the temperatures are forecast to get into the low 30's tomorrow night.
Go Trojans!
Box Score:
Location: Fort Mill HS
Result: Fort Mill 7, Northwestern 0
1s: Robby Davis def Seth Russell 6-4, 6-1
2s: Kyle Orsburn def Drayton Wade 6-2, 6-0
3s: Daniel Proctor def Brian Fitzpatrick 6-0, 6-2
4s: Tyler Davis def Hunter Love 6-2, 6-2
5s: Andreas Leon def Jordan Beaver 6-0, 6-2
1d: R Davis/Orsburn def Russell/Wade 8-3
2d: Kyle Patterson/Chase Riddle def Jonathan Clark/Duncan Foy 6-3, 6-3
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