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Pirate tennis continues improvement
3.0 years ago @ 7:51AM
- Game Date
- Apr 30, 2021
The Phoenix girls' tennis team is rapidly getting better.
The busy spring schedule has helped the Pirates in their quest to get better. PHS played three matches in a recent week, improving in each.
On April 30 against Henley, Phoenix took two out of five matches. Doubles' teams Maggie Bakke and Kaylee Szeremi and Clara Newell and Maddison Gridley both scored victories, including a 10-8 tiebreaker win for the team of Newell and Gridley after splitting the first two sets with Henley. Bakke and Szeremi scored a straight-set win.
Courtney House dropped a tough 7-6, 7-6 match in No. 1 singles while Agatha Hosking lost in a tiebreaker in No. 2 singles. The No. 1 doubles team of Ally Ellis and Gowri Vellanki fell 6-4, 6-3.
At Bear Creek Park, Klamath Union swept the three singles and three doubles matches, all played in pro-set format on Wednesday afternoon..
The Pirates forced the Pelicans into tiebreakers at Nos. 2 and 3 doubles behind efforts from Maggie Bakke and Kaylee Szeremi in the former and the pairing of Clara Newell and Maddison Gridley in the latter.
SINGLES: Bailyn Amos, KU, d. Allyson Ellis, 8-3; Jordan Heaton, KU, d. Agatha Hosking, 8-1; Ellie Olson, KU, d. Alexis Rogers, 8-0.
DOUBLES: Gillian Merhoff-Cassidy Bogaty, KU, d. Gowri Vellanki-Courtney House, 8-3; Anne Peterson-Addi Brown, KU, d. Maggie Bakke-Kaylee Szeremi, 8-7 (7-4); Kathleen Cole-Jordan Brown, KU, d. Clara Newell-Maddison Gridley, 8-7 (7-3).