Trojans Defeated at Nation Ford

The Lady Trojans suffered a tough region loss to Nation Ford tonight by score of 2 matches to 4. We now stand at 5-6 overall, but are 3-5 in region matches. The loss to Nation Ford makes it nearly impossible for us to finish higher than 4th in our region, but we still have a mathematical chance if we are able to get a win over Clover & York next week. We'd need the minor miracle of Fort Mill losing the rest of their region matches, but hey - we're not out yet.

Sometimes, it's tough to find great positives from a loss, but it was really good to see Chandler Green & Maggie Orr get straight set wins at 1 & 2. Maggie dominated her match at 2 & was up 6-1, 5-0 before a late charge by Bowers. For Chandler, this was probably the biggest win of her young career as she knocked off last year's region player of the year for us. In the end, Nation Ford has more depth and has dominated lines 4, 5 , & 2 doubles all season long. That is what seperates them from us, Fort Mill, Gaffney and York right now.

We were able to claim 3 wins in reserve matches as doubles teams of Alexis Peddy & Olivia Huckabee, as well as Caroline Herron & Randi Honeycutt claimed 8-2, and 8-6 wins respectively. Natalie Hageman was also successful by an 8-2 margin.

I mentioned to the girls on the bus that I have tried to contact Boiling Springs coach about possibly pushing Monday's match back by a week to Monday 10/19. I really would like to have a practice and another round of challenges before 4 straight matches, but we'll see what they can do to try to accomodate us. If we are able to push the match back, I will text the captains & post something here.

I really look forward to playing Boiling Springs. I think they will be very evenly matched with us. Gaffney's coach showed me the scores from when they had played them & Gaffney lost by about the same scores to Boiling Springs and us. She felt it would be a great matchup.

I'll keep ya posted...Go Trojans!

Box Score:

Location: Nation Ford HS

Result: Nation Ford 4, Northwestern 2

1s: Chandler Green (NW) def Ashley Trull 6-4, 7-5

2s: Maggie Orr (NW) def Jordan Bowers 6-1, 6-4

3s: Olivia Whitener (NF) def Betsy Creech 6-3, 6-1

4s: Sarah Tourville (NF) def Courtney Cox 6-4, 6-1

5s: Morgan Jasper (NF) def Lauren Cox 6-1, 6-1

2d: Melanie Mullen/Rylie Smith (NF) def Hillary Tindall/Emily Edwards 6-0, 6-1

3AAAA Records: Nation Ford 7-1, Northwestern 3-5