We traveled up I77 to tangle with the Falcons of Nation Ford, a team that took both matches off of us last year and finished a spot ahead of us in the region standings. We showed up to play from the top to bottom of the lineup & claimed 3 straight set wins as well as a win in third set tiebreak to take the match.
Seth Russell played as well as he has all season at 1 singles against Ott of Nation Ford. The first set was slanted heavily in Seth's favor and was closed out quickly. The second set played pretty even until Seth lead at 4-3 & closed out the match with two straight games for our first line win of the night.
John Clark was next to clear the courts and was also victorious at 4 singles to give us a 2-0 lead in the team match. John went up early in the first set and had to fight off a late charge from McGlohon for the Falcons. The second set started even and John pulled away with it at the end for a 6-4, 6-3 victory.
Jordan Beaver was the next to finish at 5 singles. Jordan's match with Lengel from Nation Ford had a lot of lengthy rallies that Jordan was able to come out on top of more often than not. The match score was 6-3, 6-3 in our favor and we now lead 3-0 in the team match.
At this point, we had two matches go into match tiebreakers at nearly the same time and another in a long second set. Drayton Wade had won a first set 6-3 over Morris of Nation Ford, but dropped a second set by the same score. Our 2 doubles team of Collins Mauldin and Michael Baldwin had won the first set 6-4 before falling behind early in the second set. They were able to come back and closed the gap in the second, but dropped it 5-7 to McLelland & Hoberek for the Falcons.
Also still in action was the marathon match of the night with Hunter Love at 2 singles against Randar for Nation Ford. Hunter had played a long first set that he claimed 7-5 before falling behind early in the second.
The doubles match finished first and Michael and Collins were able to clinch the team match with our 4th win of the night. They went up early in the tiebreaker and never looked back as they closed it out 10-3.
Drayton finished next, followed by Hunter and they each dropped tiebreakers that would have been icing on the cake for our team tonight. Neither can say that they had a bad loss as they performed well against respectable opponents. I know that each will be eager for a rematch on April 1st.
We ran the table in reserve matches as we had doubles wins by Chris Cassidy & Tyler Leonard as well as Key Barkley & Wesley Matthews. Daniel Hawkins was also victorious in singles.
Our next opponent will be another battle on Thursday night as we host the first of 4 straight matches at our courts. Clover is first to come to us on Thursday and will surely be a good test to see where we stand in our region. Getting off to a 2-0 region start would be a big step toward reaching our goal of a region title this season.
Go Trojans!
Box Score:
Location: Nation Ford
Result: Northwestern 5, Nation Ford 2
1s: Seth Russell (NW) def Madison Ott (NF) 6-2, 6-3
2s: Danny Randar (NF) def Hunter Love (NW) 5-7, 6-3, 10-6
3s: Tyler Morris (NF) def Drayton Wade (NW) 3-6, 6-3, 10-4
4s: John Clark (NW) def Brandon McGlohon (NF) 6-4, 6-3
5s: Jordan Beaver (NW) def Kyle Lengel (NF) 6-3, 6-3
1d: Russell/Love (NW) def Ott/Randar (NF) 8-6
2d: Michael Baldwin/Collins Mauldin (NW) def ALex McLelland/Paul Hoberek (NF) 6-4, 5-7, 10-3
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