Hurricanes Sweep Wildcats.

I'm sure everyone is ready for Spring to get here and stay here. Today was the coldest day of the week by quite a few degrees. I should have saved that snow image I used on Monday for today! Seriously, I would not have been surprised if a few snowflakes had started coming down this afternoon at Standifer Gap.

It's always the toughest to do these recaps when both teams lose, but let's just stick with the bright spots, shall we? First, BIG congratulations to Whitney Clack (pictured above) for getting the girls their first win of the week! 8-1 feels a heckuva lot better than 9-0, which is what we posted on Monday and Tuesday. I'm not going to kid you, when I made this schedule up, I knew this week was going to be tough. I also knew it would be the hardest on the girls. I fully expect this East Hamilton girls team to win our district. I was prepared to see bigger margins of victory in just about every match. Instead, I saw our girls fight. Maybe playing Walker Valley and CCS earlier in the week helped after all.

As for the boys, let me just say that I don't think I've ever been as proud of our doubles play as I was this afternoon. Have we swept double before? Sure. Have we ever swept doubles from a team that on paper seems much better than us? Not since I've been here. I was able to practice with the boys yesterday and I told them, their only chance at beating the Hurricanes was by sweeping the doubles. We had a terrific practice yesterday, and they did exactly that: they gave themselves a chance to beat East Hamilton. One win shy, but we had our chance. Nice day for Eric Barr who was the only player to stay perfect on the day by winning his singles match.


Here are the results:

East Hamilton Girls def. Hixson Girls 8-1

Girls Singles:

Taylor Johnson (EH) def. Candace Cline 8-1
Whitney Clack (H) def. Hilleary Chandler 8-5
Abby Ware (EH) def. Michelle Phillips 8-3
Kayla Dyer (EH) def. Haylee Gossett 8-6
Carly Jones (EH) def. Corynne Schannuth 8-4
Jessica Peters (EH) def. Kayla Morgan 8-4

Girls Doubles:

Johnson/Chandler (EH) def. Cline/Clack 8-0
Jones/Jordan Kaset (EH) def.Gossett/Schannuth 8-3
Ware/Dyer (EH) def. Phillips/Morgan

Records:
Hixson 1-4 (1-2)
East Hamilton

East Hamilton Boys def. Hixson Boys 5-4

Boys Singles:

Daniel Jung (EH) def. Dylan Millwood 8-4
Bailey Lenoir (EH) def. George Ozborn 8-6
Ryan Williamson (EH) def. Cory Phillips 8-5
Clark Templeton (EH) def. Myles Goforth 8-4
Eric Barr (H) def. Randsom Mark 8-3
Tej Dehond (EH) def. Jae Yoo 8-0

Boys Doubles:

Ozborn/Phillips (H) def. Jung/Lenoir 8-6
Millwood/Goforth (H) def. River Mark/David Templeton 8-6
Barr/Yoo (H) def. C. Templeton/ Matthew Sayne 9-8 (7-5)

Records:
Hixson 3-2 (2-1)
East Hamilton

Up Next: Friday, April 1 @ HOME versus Silverdale for the GIRLS ONLY. Although this year's Lady Seahawks are not nearly as good as last year's district 5-A/AA champion team (they lost three seniors from their top 6), they still should be a very good team.