Trojans Improve Region Record to 5-3 with Win over York

It was a great night for tennis at Northwestern. We had perfect weather and near flawless tennis was played by the Trojans tonight. We played down a man tonight with John Clark having sprained or broken his left ankle in practice last night, but we still dominated from top to bottom.


The victory over York gives us an overall record of 9-3 and we sit firmly in third place at this point courtesy of a Nation Ford (7-1) win over Clover (4-4) tonight. Fort Mill (6-2) is temporarily ahead of us in second. We can tie for second place with a win at Fort Mill next Tuesday & we would have the tiebreak edge over them due to our best region win (Nation Ford) being better than their best region win (Clover).


Jordan Beaver bumped up from his normal #5 spot to #4 in place of John. He posted similar results as we are accustomed to seeing out of him and swept both sets against Patrick of York.


Chris Cassidy (pictured right) entered the lineup at #5 singles in place of Jordan's vacated #5 spot. The boy was up for the challenge. Only 2 games were surrendered to Stowe of the Cougars as Chris gave us a solid W.

Our doubles team of Collins Mauldin & Michael Baldwin were informed by me that they are currently undefeated when playing together this season and are likely contenders for all-region status, should they continue their dominance over our next three region foes. They responded huge and shutout the team from York of Womble & Sanford.

Our top 3, Seth Russell @ 1, Drayton Wade @2, and Hunter Love @3 were all solid and posted victories in straight sets while only surrendering 11 total games between the three lines to the Cougars.



We are without a doubt the deepest team in Region 3-AAAA. We secured reserve singles wins by Tyler Leonard (8-0), Brian Fitzpatrick (8-1), Key Barkley (8-3), Daniel Hawkins, pictured left (8-0), and Ben Barkley (8-0). Daniel & Key teamed up for a doubles shutout (8-0) and the Schroeder brothers, Collin & Jacob, got in the mix for an 8-6 win as well.



Fort Mill is next and revenge should be on our minds. Fort Mill got us early in a tight contest that was decided on two tiebreaker matches, which we dropped both. You can bet your buns that we will be doing a lot of tiebreakers in practice on Monday to prepare ourselves to take claim to the second seed and secure a home playoff match for the first time in the last 4 years.


Go Trojans!

Location: Northwestern
Result: Northwestern 6, York 0

Singles
1- Seth Russell def Chris Suggs 6-0, 6-2
2- Drayton Wade def Jensen Fisk 6-1, 6-2
3- Hunter Love def Kyle Spears 6-1, 7-5
4- Jordan Beaver def Nathan Patrick 6-0, 6-0
5- Chris Cassidy def Andrew Stowe 6-1, 6-1

Doubles
2- Michael Baldwin/Collins Mauldin def Charlie Womble/Will Sanford 6-0, 6-0