Hixson Sweeps East Ridge.

Well as you can see from the above picture, which I took this afternoon, they are almost finished resurfacing courts #10, 11 & 12 at the Racquet Club of Chattanooga. They should be playable by the end of the week. Unfortunately, we had our first home match today. So instead of playing a the Racquet Club, we played over at the Old Hixson Middle School courts. Those courts are actually pretty nice, as they were resurfaced last summer. The problem is that there are no restroom facilities. We won't have another home match until after Spring Break. This was the only early home match I scheduled, because East Ridge was not sure where they would be playing their home matches.

Why, you might be asking? Well this is the first year East Ridge has fielded a team since the Spring of '08. We didn't even find out they were going to have a team until late January. Since they are in our district we had to schedule a home and an away match.

As I mentioned in my last post, first year programs are generally not going to be very competitive. Just about all of the Lady Pioneers are brand new to the sport, and even some of the boys. All in all, I think they did great, and I am so happy that East Ridge has a coach who's willing to spend some time with those kids on a court.

I also thought, under the circumstances, all of my players did a good job displaying good sportsmanship. Sometimes these kinds of lopsided matches can get unfriendly in a hurry. There was none of that today.

Here are the results:

Hixson Girls def. East Ridge Girls, 9-0

Girls' Singles:

Haylee Gossett (H) def. Ann Millard, 8-0
Corynne Schannuth (H) def. Ruby Haumbrick, 8-0
Emily Gilreath (H) def. Kayli McKee, 8-0
Lydia Lindsey (H) def. Jasmine Xayravong, 8-0
Maggie Ozborn (H) def. Sarah Burns, 8-0
Kayla Morgan (H) def. Kiana Bullard, 8-1

Girls' Doubles:

Gilreath/Lindsey (H) def. Millard/McKee, 8-0
Ozborn/Morgan (H) def. Haumbrick/Tara Crissman, 8-0
Emily Davis/Karina Iksanova (H) def. Xayravong/Burns, 8-0

Records:
Hixson 3-0 (Overall); 3-0 (District 6A/AA)
East Ridge 0-2 (Overall); 0-2 (District 6A/AA)


Hixson Boys def. East Ridge Boys, 9-0

Boys' Singles:

Dylan Millwood (H) def. Colton Cruse, 8-1
George Ozborn (H) def. Matt Whisenaut, 8-1
Cory Phillips (H) def. Cody Poe, 8-2
Kevin Nguyen (H) def. Robert Foster, 8-0
Jacob Lindsey (H) def. Will Holloway, 8-0
Rivers DeFries (H) def. Justin Hitchcock, 8-0

Boys' Doubles:

Phillips/Nguyen (H) def. Cruse/Whisenaut, 8-4
Ozborn/Lindsey (H) def. Foster/Holloway, 8-3
DeFries/Nicholas Rodgers (H) def. Poe/Hitchcock, 8-3

Records:
Hixson 2-1 (Overall); 2-1 (District 6A/AA)9
East Ridge 0-2 (Overall); 0-2 (District 6A/AA)

Up Next: At CSAS. The boys have their work cut out for them. This is the defending district champs, and they only lost one player from their top six. The girls will also have a fight on their hands, but I suspect if we play as well as I know we can, we could remain unblemished in District play.