Trip to Warner Park Ends in a Split.

First the good news.

But I'm going to be honest with you. If you had told me after our Red Bank Scrimmage (March 8) that we would be sitting here on March 20 and that my girls would still be undefeated, I would not have believed you. I do not know what happened that day, but these girls did not play well, and I was seriously worried about the rest of the season. They have proved me wrong-- the kind of wrong a coach loves to be, by the way!

With the exception of the top two seeds who are seniors, the Lady Patriots are a very young team. My girls aren't exactly veterans, but CSAS started two 8th graders and two Freshmen in their top six. This lack of experience really showed in doubles, as my girls swept all three doubles courts. Once they got to singles, the Lady Patriots were a little bit better, winning two of the six matches, and nearly winning a third. Hixson's Whitney Clack (Pictured Below) won a tiebreaker to win at the #1 singles spot. The match should not have been that close, as Whitney was up 7-4, and we all watched in horror as her opponent won the next four games, before Whit tied it up at 8-8-- Whew! Maggie Ozborn lost a close one, 6-8, but I thought both those girls were pretty evenly matched and neither of them ever had a big lead. Otherwise, there was very little drama on the day as far as the girls were concerned. Michelle Phillips, Haylee Gossett and Emily Gilreath all won their singles matches easily. Corynne Schannuth dug herself quite a hole at 2-5, and then fought back to make it respectable (losing 5-8).



On the Boys' side, quite a different story. We would have struggled to put games on the board for our side even at full strength. George Ozborn, who normally plays the #2 Seed, was out today with some sort of stomach bug. So any hopes of pulling off an upset were pretty much dashed from the start. Much like our boys dominated East Ridge yesterday, CSAS took care of business and won every single court. I did see some good tennis from our boys, but we were no match. I told our boys to try to learn from the other side, hopefully when we play them again, we'll be a little more prepared-- and maybe with George in the lineup, we might surprise them!


Here are the results:

Hixson Girls def. CSAS Girls, 7-2

Singles:

Whitney Clack (H) def. Cindy Ormaza, 9-8 (7-4)
Michelle Phillips (H) def. Maria Alley, 8-1
Haylee Gossett (H) def. Sneha Mahesh, 8-4
Kirsten Johnson (C) def. Corynne Schannuth, 8-5
Emily Gilreath (H) def. Lauren Emmett, 8-3
Katie Foster (C) def. Maggie Ozborn, 8-6

Doubles:

Clack/Phillips (H) def. Alley/Johnson, 8-5
Gossett/Schannuth (H) def. Ormaza/Emmett, 8-5
Gilreath/Ozborn (H) def. Foster/Cadence Camp, 8-4


Hixson Girls' Record:

4-0 (District 6A/AA); 4-0 (Overall)


CSAS Boys def. Hixson Boys, 9-0

Singles:

Jackson Lenoir (C) def. Dylan Millwood, 8-4
Ian Derthick (C) def. Cory Phillips, 8-1
Raymond Kim (C) def. Kevin Nguyen, 8-1
Raja Moughrabi (C) def. Jacob Lindsey, 8-2
Chandler Custer (C) def. Rivers DeFries, 8-3
Visaal Sivakumar (C) def. Nicholas Rodgers, 8-1

Doubles:

Lenoir/Moughrabi (C) def. Millwood/Phillips, 8-3
Derthick/Kim (C) def. Nguyen/Lindsey, 8-0
Custer/Sivakumar (C) def. DeFries/Rodgers, 8-2

Hixson Boyss' Record:

2-2 (District 6A/AA); 2-2 (Overall)

Up Next: Thursday against Cleveland at Lee University. Not sure what to expect as we have never played Cleveland since I've been the coach at Hixson. I would assume they are good, especially on the girls side.