Off to a Cold Start.

#4 Seed, Whitney Clack-- had our lone win in Singles on a cold day at the Racquet Club.



#2 Seed, Candace Cline-- teamed up with Whitney in #2 Doubles to snag our second "W" of the match.

(Special thanks to Melanie Cowart for the fabulous pictures!)


I can't remember a more miserable day to ask our kids to play tennis. The skies looked like they might start spitting snow at any moment, and I don't think the wind chill ever got above 40 degrees. To add insult to injury, we had to play a formidable opponent in the Golden Eagles. Still, our kids played their hearts out. Hats off to a well coached squad from Rhea County!

We had several members playing their first ever match (Kayla Morgan, Torey Hart, Jonathan Craft) and a couple others making their High School Tennis debut (Whitney Clack and Russ Rebennack). All in all, I must say that I'm quite pleased with the way things went. I'd like to single out the outstanding play of Freshman, Whitney Clack, who persevered through two tough tie breakers to stay perfect on the day. She won her singles match 9-7 in the tiebreak, and along with Candace Cline was able to outlast their Rhea County opponents 7-4 in the breaker. For those of you new to the sport, our teams play pro-sets to 8 games. If they are tied after 14 games (7-7), they play a tiebreaker to 7 points, but you have to win by two. It makes for some exciting tennis, as any of you who stuck around for the end of that doubles match can attest.

Here are the results:

Rhea County Girls Defeat Hixson Girls 7-2

Girls Singles:

Kelci Fredericks (RC) def. Allison Cowart (H) 8-0
Caylee Cochran (RC) def. Candace Cline (H) 8-2
Kayley Argo (RC) def. Ashton Summers (H) 8-3
Whitney Clack (H) def. Addison Edwards (RC) 8-7 (9-7)
Gina Reed (RC) def. Torey Hart (H) 8-0
Kara McClendon (RC) def. Kayla Morgan (H) 8-1

Girls Doubles:

Fredricks/Cochran (RC) def. Cowart/Summers (H) 8-0
Cline/Clack (H) def. Johnston/Yearwood (RC) 8-7 (7-4)
Chavis/Clevenger (RC) def. Hart/Morgan (H) 8-5

Rhea County Boys defeat Hixson Boys 9-0

Boys Singles:

Dylan Coulter (RC) def. George Ozborn 8-3
Jake Ricketts (RC) def. Dylan Millwood 8-2
Jacob Davis (RC) def. Eric Barr 8-0
Zach Madewell (RC) def. Corey Phillips 8-3
Wesley Sanders (RC) def. Jae Yoo 8-2
Evan Smith (RC) def. Jonathan Craft 8-6

Boys Doubles:

Coulter/Sanders (RC) def. Millwood/Barr (H) 8-2
Ricketts/Madewell (RC) def. Ozborn/Phillips (H) 8-3
Davis/Smith (RC) def. Yoo/Russ Rebennack (H) 8-0

Next match is tomorrow against CSAS @ Warner Park, they should be just as tough, but hopefully the weather will be kinder.