Trojans defeat York

The fall regular season was kicked off with a Trojan victory at our home courts tonight. The match played out a little closer than expected due to some unforeseen circumstances. In the end, we claimed 4 matches to York's 2 and now stand at 2-2 overall after our tournament results last weekend.

The doubles team of Courtney Cox and Lauren Cox posted a complete shutout of the York doubles team tonight. I am very confident in these two girl's ability to play doubles and win a lot of matches for us this year. They showed me tonight that they can put away an opponent and not let them in the match at any point. That is precisely what I wanted to see.

Emily Edwards filled in at #5 singles tonight and claimed our second overall team win. After blitzing ahead to a 5-0 first set lead, the York #5 took advantage of some errors & grabbed two games before Emily finished the set 6-2. Emily played nearly error free in the 2nd set & shut out her opponent to claim our third line win.

At this point, we lead 3-0 and had matches still being played at #1, #3, and #4 singles. Chandler Green had won her first set 6-3 @ #1 and Karlee Fox had won her first set in a tiebreaker. Alexis Peddy had gone to a set tiebreaker as well, but came out on the losing end.

Unfortunately, we had to concede line #1 as Chandler couldn't continue to play. Fortunately for the Trojans, Karlee came alive in set #2 and shutout York's #4 in the second set to give us the overall team victory.

I told the girls after our match that Byrnes will be a little late getting to us on Thursday & our match likely won't begin until 5:30. Seeing as the weather forecast is nearly the same as tonight, I am going to make an adjustment to our warm up routine and shorten it so we don't spend too much time in the heat before our match begins. Therefore, Thursday's schedule is:

4:45 Snack - in shade under trees
5:00 On court warm up
5:15 Clear courts
5:30 Introductions / Begin play

Hopefully, this will allow us to play at a high level without the effects of the heat as we felt today.

Go Trojans!

Location: Northwestern
Result: Northwestern 4, York 2

1s: Michelle Goss (Y) def Chandler Green 3-6, 3-2 ret(ill)
2s: Betsy Creech def Brandi Neely 6-2, 6-1
3s: Mary Goss (Y) def Alexis Peddy 7-6, 3-6, 10-1
4s: Karlee Fox def Katia Patrick 7-6, 6-0
5s: Emily Edwards def Samantha Roush 6-2, 6-0

2d: Courtney Cox/Lauren Cox def Kate Shirley/Sarah Webb 6-0, 6-0