Our first region match did not fall in our favor tonight. The defeat puts us at 2-2 overall and 0-1 in region 3-AAAA.Maggie Orr played her heart out tonight and proved to me that she can compete with any top player in our region. Chumney from Fort Mill is in a class of her own at this level and Maggie made her earn every single point. Easily, Maggie could have folded and let Chumney walk all over her. She never did and I was proud of her effort.
Chandler Green went up the first set and had Katz frustrated early. The second set ended up slipping away and the match went to a tiebreaker to decide it. I tried to pump up Chandler to become more aggressive and play her shots. Unfortunately, some early hitting errors in the tiebreak put her in a hole that was too big to overcome.
Betsy Creech bounced back from her defeat at Byrnes to put a W on the board for us tonight in the 3 singles line. She went out to early leads in both sets against Jensen from Fort Mill and never let up. Her score reflects how hard she worked to put the match away for her team.Courtney Cox struggled to find a consistent rhythm against Williams from Fort Mill at 4 singles. The first set could have gone our way, but was dropped in a set tiebreak. Strategy wise, Courtney tried to turn the match in the second by playing more aggressive to Williams backhand. It worked at times, but not enough as the match was dropped 6-4 in the second set.
Senior captain MC Faulkner debuted in the starting lineup tonight at 5 singles. She played her heart out and truly seemed to be the better baseline hitter against Hoisington of Fort Mill. Hoisington just kept ball after ball in play and forced MC out of her comfort zone to claim Fort Mills line 5 win.
Our doubles girls didn't look like the same pair that had played the last three matches for us in the first set and a half. Still, senior captain Hillary Tindall and Lauren Cox were able to gut out the second set and force the match to a tiebreaker. They also fell behind early in the tiebreak and were unable to string together enough points to come back for us tonight. I like the effort that was made to comeback, however we needed it earlier in the match to set the tone in our favor.
I was pleased overall with how hard the girls played tonight. I can't say that I was totally impressed with the way we thought our way through some situations. We continue to keep playing balls down the middle to our opponents and we don't make them work as hard as we are working. There are many opportunities for us to play smarter points out there.
Our reserve doubles action showed favorable for the Trojans tonight. Wins were secured by the teams of Alexis Peddy / Randi Honey cutt as well as Karlee Fox / Caroline Herron by scores of 8-5 and 8-2 respectively. I am happy with the depth of our team and believe that the middle and bottom of our roster is as good as any in the upperstate this year.
Gaffney is headed over for a region matchup Thursday. We need to focus hard in practice tomorrow to get the team moving back in the right direction.
Go Trojans!
Location: Fort Mill HS
Result: Fort Mill 6, Northwestern 1
1s: Morgan Chumney (F) def Maggie Orr (N) 6-1, 6-0
2s: Mady Katz (F) def Chandler Green (N) 3-6, 6-3, 10-6
3s: Betsy Creech (N) def Ali Jensen (F) 6-3, 6-2
4s: Lauren Williams (F) def Courtney Cox (N) 7-6, 6-4
5s: Sierra Hoisington (F) def MC Faulkner (N) 7-5, 6-0
1d: Chumney/Katz (F) def Orr/Green (N) 8-2
2d: Persephone McCullough/Dori Wilson (F) def Lauren Cox/Hillary Tindall (N) 6-2, 4-6, 10-5
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