Girls Tennis 4-9 vs Everett

There were a couple of shifts in the lineup in Thursday’s varsity tennis match vs Everett. #2 singles Laurin Rico moved to #1 doubles with Erin Neilon taking her place.

The Wildcats swept the singles matches, with Jennifer Jansen winning 6-3, 6-3, Neilon winning 4-6, 6-3, (10-4), Molly Deleon 6-2, 6-0 and Cady O’Dell 6-2, 6-0.

The #1 doubles team of Rico and Valerie Loders won 6-1, 6-4, but the #2 team lost in 3 sets and #3 team in straight sets.

In extra matches, Jordan Faralan and Jessica James won 8-3 over their Seagull opponents.

The win improves OH to 3-2 on the season.

In JV action, only the #1 doubles team of Alexa Holmly and Cassie Gianino could get a win, and that went to tiebreaker in the 1st set. The final score in that match was 7-6(4), 6-4.

In extra matches, the teams of Joyce Abines/Molly Van Dam, Kim Kerly/Ashley Leslie, and Juliane Meenan/Jordan Trask all won convincingly.

Coach Brown had this to say about the JV matches: “While the final score was decisive, the match was actually very close and tightly contested. This could easily have been a 5-2 win for the team. It was a good match, and test for the girls after the lay-off from the spring break. Although Oak Harbor eventually lost all four singles, three of them were winning their first sets up until the last moments of the set. Shannon Neilon at #2, and Michelle Maxwell, at #4 both took their matches down to the final tiebreaker, and even those were very close. Audrey Andoy had two very close sets.”

“First doubles, Cassie and Alexa, had never played together before; they had not even played doubles before, and manged to win a tough match. Joyce and Molly, Kim and Ashley, and Juliane and Jordan at 5th, 6th, and 7th doubles each all played great matches to wins.”