Cleveland Cools the 'Cats.

Well, I did not get the result I had hoped, but I think we got a lot out of our trip to Lee University. This is our second year playing Cleveland, and I hope to continue the series in the future, because I love for our kids to get to play on such a beautiful campus.  Big THANK YOU to all the parents who helped shuttle kids from Hixson to Cleveland.  I don't think any of our players had to drive, which really takes a load off my mind.  

 

As I said in Monday's post, I had no idea what to expect from Cleveland, but I figured they would be tough.  It goes with the territory when we are playing the bigger schools, the competition is going to be stiffer.  For only the second time this season, both our Boys and Girls lost.

 

On the Boys side of things we really had our chances.  The bottom of our lineup really took care of business, with my #4, 5 and 6  (Jacob, Richard and Rivers) all winning their singles matches, but I only got one win in doubles at #3 (Jacob and Rivers).  All the matches we lost, were close.  I thought Cleveland played very smart, and perhaps they had a little more experience and that ended up being the difference.  

 

I'll be honest, I thought the girls came out a little flat for the most part today.  Not to take anything away from the Cleveland girls, because they had some very good players up and down the lineup.  I just thought we could have at least made some of those losses closer.  In singles their were only two matches that were close.  In one of those, we came out on top.  Michelle played maybe the best I've seen her play this year, winning her match 8-6 in the #2 slot.  Corynne also played a good match at #6, losing 5-8.  

 

Part of the problem was not having a tougher match on Monday.  Another issue was our coming off of Spring Break.  As I said, some of our players did not pick up a racquet over the break.  Hopefully, they learned why they should keep hitting over the holiday.  Here are the full results:

 

 

Cleveland Girls defeat Hixson Girls 7-2

Girls Singles:

Maddie Ohlsson (C) def. Whitney Clack 8-4

Michelle Phillips (H) def. Katherine Cantrell 8-6

Abigail Londerback (C) def. Haylee Gossett 8-4

Briley Moore (C) def. Emily Gilreath 8-2

Mallori Terry (C) def. Maggie Ozborn 8-2

Heidi Barringer (C) def. Corynne Schannuth 8-5

Girls Doubles:

Ohlsson/Louderback (C) def. Clack/Phillips 9-7

Cantrell/Moore (C) def. Gossett/Gilreath 8-6

Ozborn/Schannuth (H) Terry/Barringer 8-4

Cleveland Boys def. Hixson Boys 5-4

Boys Singles:

Jake Gibson (C) def. Alex Condra 8-5

Kevin Harncharran (C) def. Carl Phillips 8-5

Shvang Patel (C) def. Kevin Nguyen 8-6

Jacob Lindsey (H) def. Matthew Harris 8-4

Richard Vuong (H) def. Roy Roman 8-2

Rivers De'Friese (H) def. Luke Bradero 8-0

Boys Doubles: 

Gibson/ (C) def. Condra/Phillips 8-5
Harncharran/Patel (C) def. Nguyen/Vuong 8-6

Lindsey/De'Friese (H) def. Roman/Bradero 8-1

Records:

Hixson Girls: 4-3 (Overall); 4-0 (District 6-A/AA)
Hixson Boys: 5-2 (Overall); 4-0 (District 6-A/AA)

UP NEXT: Monday, April 8 @ Boyd Buchanan.  The beginning of a CRAZY week.  All the Private Christian Academies tend to have good players.  Expect BB to be no different.  We need to play our best on the Boys and Girls side in order to get a win.