Friday, April 18, 2014

Wonderful Family Alumni Friend Weekend and Final Regular Season Matches

The time does fly by this time of year so I'll give you some highlights from the past two weeks


  • We hosted a wonderful Family, Friends Alumni weekend; thanks to all those who traveled or came to the events locally, it means an incredible amount to have amazing support and love from our families and friends.
  • Chelsea put together a wonderful year in review slide show at our dinner and Jenna wrote a clever poem honoring our three seniors.
  • We hit the courts for a showdown with Whitworth, each of us undefeated in conference play; the match was intense with our doubles stepping up for a 3-0 lead and then winning the first set in 4 of 6 matches a large gray cloud sat overhead dropping rain and pushing us indoors.  Courtney and EBell sealed the deal with quick second sets; Katrina and Maddy followed and both Allie and Jenna grabbed the momentum to win the second set and win in match tie breaks.  In exhibition play, Seana played great to win and Liv got down 4-7 before storming back to win 9-7, what a match!  
  • With the lead in Conference in hand we relaxed and played some tennis with families; it was great to have the Bates women on court, our illustrious alums battling it out and I got to join the Webster family for a doubles set in which Maddy and Bob somehow came away with a victory despite many big shots from my partner Annie.  Maddy forgot how to miss and Bob is deceptively fast in boat shoes and jeans!
This weekend we head to the West side to play Friday in McMinnville vs Linfield who we narrowly escaped from 5-4 at home; then we take on Willamette and Pacific in a double header.  It should be 36 hours of incredible fun, and we plan to get a lot of different people matches as we have already clinched a spot in the conference tournament and are looking to seal our second consecutive NWC Title and host the tournament next week.

Stay tuned tennis fans, here we go!

Coach John