Courts Under Repair.

As most of you know by now, the outdoor hard courts at the Racquet Club are under repair. We had to move Monday's match against Red Bank to their home courts at Rivermont Park. When we meet them again on April 27, we will play on our home courts-- so please make a note of that on your schedules. It looks like we are going to have to move Wednesday's match against Ooletwah as well, but I won't know for sure until later this afternoon. I will let the team know today at practice. Ooletwah's home courts are located on their campus and you can find directions here: 6123 Mountain View Road.

As for the match against the Lions, it went pretty much as I suspected. The Lady Lions remain undefeated in District play and barring unforeseen circumstances should remain that way for the rest of the season. I had a full, healthy roster but we were no match for their depth and experience. Coach Wagner, having swept the singles, called off the dogs during the doubles matches and our girls got two out of three wins and lost the third in a close one 6-8. All in all it was a pleasant experience, and I'm proud of my girls for giving their best effort against a very tough team.

As I suggested in Sunday's post, I really liked our chances on the boys side. We almost pulled off the win. Heading into the doubles we had to sweep to secure a team win. We fell just short: taking two of three. Again I'd like to praise George Ozborn, who was not himself as he had been sick all weekend, and was still feeling under the weather at match time but insisted on playing both singles and doubles. I'm speculating, but I think if George was feeling better, we would have won this match going away. I can't wait till the Lions visit us in April. Jonathan Craft played superbly again winning his singles and doubles matches and big congratulations to Eric Barr (pictured below) for picking up his first singles win of the season!



Here are the results:

Red Bank Girls def. Hixson Girls 7-2

Girls Singles:

Amy Metcalf (RB) def. Allison Cowart, 8-2
Ivory Conley (RB) def. Candace Cline, 8-1
Kristen Camp (RB) def. Ashton Summers, 8-1
Megan Long (RB) def. Whitney Clack, 8-1
Rachel Hargis (RB) def. Torey Hart, 8-3
Danielle Moore (RB) def. Kayla Morgan, 8-1

Girls Doubles:

Cowart/Summers (H) def. Claire Cox/Amee Desai, 8-4
Cline/Clack (H) def. Julia Reed/Sadie Kerlie, 8-2
Taylor Lewis/ Tara Wiley (RB) def. Hart/Morgan, 8-6

Red Bank Boys def, Hixson Boys 5-4

Boys Singles:

Mark Colbert (RB) def. Dylan Millwood, 8-5
Nic Gagliano (RB) def. George Ozborn, 8-5
Brandon Lewis (RB) def. Corey Phillips, 8-5
Eric Barr (H) def. Jonathan Campbell, 9-7
Jonathan Craft (H) def. Saagar Desai, 8-6
Cody Cox (RB) def. Jae Yoo, 8-3

Boys Doubles:

Millwood/Ozborn (H) def. Colbert/Hunter Dake, 8-4
Gagliano/Lewis (RB) def. Phillips/Barr, 8-3
Craft/Yoo (H) def. Desai/Cox, 8-5

Up next: Ooltewah. The Owls are always tough and this year is no exception. The Lady Owls might be the toughest team our girls face this season. The boys will be very good as well. A difficult way to end the first half of the season to be sure, but, as they say: What doesn't kill us, makes us stronger.