Tennis 2010-05-06 vs Snohomish

The Varsity tennis team traveled to 2nd place and 11-3 Snohomish for their final regular season match. Oak Harbor came into the match at 6-10.

Oak Harbor got off to a good start, with #1 Cady O'Dell winning in 3 sets, 3-6, 7-5, 6-2 and #2 Erin Neilon winning 6-1, 6-0. In Doubles #1 Laurin Rico and Clarissa Abadesco went 3 sets before winning 6-4, 6-7(5), 6-1. However, that was it for Wildcat wins as sophomores Shannon Neilon and Alexa Holmly went down in singles, juniors Jordan Faralan and Kerry Rathsabandith at 2nd doubles as did Team Jennifer (Fremd and Bowers) at 3rd doubles. Snohomish was also able to capture both extra matches and won the match 4-3.

While the varsity team was at Snohomish, the JV team was hosting the Panthers at OHHS and things did not go well at all. In fact, of the 15 matches played, Snohomish won every one in straight sets.

One match of note was Kristen Shields at 3rd singles. At Snohomish in mid-April, she lost to her opponent 0-6, 0-6, but in the rematch on Wednesday she improved that score to 2-6, 4-6. Coach Garry Brown called her improvement "phenomenal".

That ends the regular season, but select varsity girls will be moving on to district tournaments.