Trojans Claim Region Win Over York

The trip over to York was successful for the Trojans tonight as we claimed 4 out of 5 singles lines and both doubles lines for a 6-1 team victory. The victory improves us to 6-1 overall on the season and 3-1 in region matches. We remain tied for first with Nation Ford & Fort Mill as Nation Ford defeated Clover tonight and Fort Mill beat Gaffney.

Jordan Beaver once again finished his match first tonight at 5 sinlges. Not a game was lost against Stowe from York as Jordan lead wire to wire and never let off the gas.

John Clark claims he finished at the same time as Jordan, but Jordan reached the score book first. It was pretty close as John dropped a couple games in the first set before closing it out with a 6-0 second set.

Drayton Wade was the next to clear the courts at 3 singles. After an early hiccup in the first set, Drayton went on to play some of his best tennis of the spring and reel off 10 straight games for the victory.

The match was sealed at 1 singles by Seth Russell tonight. Suggs from York is

a streaky player and you never really know which player will show up. Seth had little trouble tonight other then a few early errors that cost a couple first set games. The second set was Seth placing pinpoint shots to all areas of the court for Suggs to try to track down. He got to some, but not enough as the second set closed 6-1 for Seth and the match was sealed for the Trojans.

Our doubles pairing tonight was Collins Mauldin and Chris Cassidy also claimed a strong decisive victory tonight. I can't claim to have seen much of the match, but every time I looked down at court #6, the Trojans were moving the scoreboard 2 games at a time on each changeover.

There's no doubt that Hunter was a little dissapointed in his match at 2 singles tonight. He struggled to keep the ball in play against Fisk for the Cougars for most of the first set. He was able to take an early lead in the second and things looked promising. However, the momentum had shifted back to fisk near the end of the second set as Hunter was put into a set tiebreak. He was able to claim the tiebreak for the set and force a 10-point tiebreak for the match. Hunter lead early in the tiebreak and the two players battled to 6-6 at the second changeover. The error bug returned at this point and Hunter wasn't able to get the W tonight. It was promising that he found the will to make a statement in the second set, but unfortunately it just wasn't his night tonight.

Hunter was able to get in the win column playing at 1 doubles with Jordan. The two were way too strong for the York opponents Stowe & Spears and the Trojan teammates played well and won the proset 8-2.

Our varsity reserves were very good tonight in handling the Cougars on the back courts. Wesley Matthews, Ben Barkley and Quincy Ghent recorded singles wins while doubles wins were courtesy of teams of Jonathan Patton & Collin Schroeder and Ben Leppard & Phillip Yommer.

Tomorrow we'll practice hard in preparation for next week's matchups with Gaffney and Nation Ford. I don't know what to expect from Gaffney other than they were good enough to beat York last week. I do know that we're going to have a big bullseye on our backs from Nation Ford after we beat them at their place two weeks ago. We know they weren't happy about that and we better be ready to play our best.

Go Trojans!

Location: York HS
Result: Northwestern 6, York 1

Singles
1: Seth Russell def Chris Suggs 6-2, 6-1
2: Jensen Fisk (Y) def Hunter Love 6-1, 6-7, 10-8
3: Drayton Wade def Kyle Spears 6-1, 6-0
4: John Clark def Nathan Patrick 6-2, 6-0
5: Jordan Beaver def Andrew Stowe 6-0, 6-0

Doubles
1: Love/Beaver def Spears/Stowe 8-2
2: Collins Mauldin/Chris Cassidy def Charles Womble/Terry Doan 6-1, 6-0