Girls' tennis nets 3 big
wins
By Connor Erickson
Citizen Staff
The CHS
girls’ tennis team has been rolling, winning its last three
matches and improving its record to 5-4. In the past week, the
Bulldogs went from two games under .500 to one game over .500.
The team got little rest, as the games were played on three
consecutive days.
 The winning
streak began last Monday with a 3-2 victory away against league
rival Mansfield. Four of the five matches had already been
played when the match was suspended due to rain and the score
was tied 2-2 when play resumed. The sophomore first doubles duo
of Carol Berman and Kendall Sceviour and the second doubles team
of Tammy Nghiem and Kristen Coco “won easily,” according to head
coach Shelia Conneely.
Senior Katie
Slusarz lost at first singles and junior Rachel Voke lost at
second singles. The match was decided by senior Kelly Winter at
third. After dropping her first set, 6-7 (4-7), Winter stormed
back to convincingly win the next two sets, 6-2, 6-2, and
secured the match for the Bulldogs in the process.
Canton
played a make-up game the next day at home against Foxboro and
bested the Warriors 3-2. In a performance Conneely called a
“thrashing,” Winter dispensed of her opponent in two quick sets,
winning 6-0, 6-0. Both Canton doubles teams played very well
again and won without any trouble. Berman and Sceviour won 6-3,
6-2 at first doubles, and Nghiem and Coco won 6-0, 6-3.
Conneely
said she was impressed with the performance of her entire team,
not just the winners. “Although Katie [Slusarz] and Rachel [Voke]
lost their matches, they both captured their first sets before
losing in three,” she noted. Slusarz had set scores of 6-4, 2-6,
3-6 and Voke’s scores were 6-4, 6-3, 6-3.
Canton
breezed past Stoughton on Friday with a 4-1 victory in its third
match in three days. Conneely noted Voke’s victory at second
singles as being “especially sweet because she had lost to the
same Stoughton second singles earlier in the season in a
heartbreaking, three-set match.” Voke made quick work of her
opponent in two sets (6-4, 6-0).
Another
highlight for the Bulldogs was third singles. In her varsity
debut, sophomore Divya Harpalani won in style, 6-0, 6-0. Both
doubles teams won again handily in two quick sets. Berman and
Sceviour won at first doubles 6-2, 6-1, and Nghiem and Coco won
at second doubles 6-0, 6-4. Slusarz was in a tough match at
first singles and lost in two close sets, 5-7, 4-6.
The Bulldogs
played on Monday at Oliver Ames and yesterday at home against
King Philip, hoping to continue their three game streak.
May
8, 2008
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