| Story by Coach
Chambers
After
three hours of rain delays on Saturday morning, the Lady Hornets'
varsity tennis squad was able to host its annual home tournament.
This year, the format was a round robin team triangular, where all
three teams played doubles, then singles, then doubles again, and
finally singles in two full team duals.
Coach Chambers invites very high-level
MSHSAA Class 1 schools from farther away in Missouri to visit for
the weekend to help push her squad into harder matches before the
last two-week push in the MEC in the coming weeks. St. Michael the
Archangel (just bumped up to Class 2) and Logan-Rogersville both
made the long trek up to Chillicothe for the tournament.
While the team went 0-2 on the day overall
and finished third, Coach Chambers and Coach Pyrtle watched their
athletes play beautiful, highly completive, well-done tennis all
day. After waiting so long through the rain delays, it was
discouraging to end the day without many wins, but the team feels
more confident in being prepared to face three district and
conference opponents in the next five days.
The team face both Benton and LeBlond in key MEC match-ups on
Monday and then Trenton in a key district match-up on Thursday at
home. The Lady Hornets hope the community will come out to support
the team at this next home meet.
Results were as follows:
#1 Doubles -- Smith & Bonderer against
St. Michael lost 3-6; against Logan-Rogersville lost 4-6
#2 Doubles -- Gatson & Mathews against
St. Michael lost 6-6 (tiebreak 3-7); against Logan-Rogersville won
6-3
#3 Doubles -- Leppin & Moore against
St. Michael lost 1-6; against Logan-Rogersville lost 3-6
#1 Singles -- Lexy Smith against St.
Michael lost 4-6; against Logan-Rogersville won 6-1
#2 Singles -- Lydia Bonderer against
St. Michael lost 5-7; against Logan-Rogersville lost 1-6
#3 Singles -- Summer Gatson against
St. Michael lost 1-6; against Logan-Rogersville lost 1-6
#4 Singles -- Rian Mathews against St.
Michael lost 1-6; against Logan-Rogersville lost 0-6
#5 Singles -- Trixie Leppin against
St. Michael lost 1-6; against Logan-Rogersville lost 0-6
#6 Singles -- Anya Moore against St.
Michael lost 2-6; against Logan-Rogersville lost 0-6
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