Slow Start Costly For Bulldog Netters In 6-3 Loss In St. Joseph
For the way things looked after doubles play was completed, the Trenton High School tennis team’s 6-3 loss to LeBlond could have been worse.
Trenton stumbled out of the gates in doubles play before rallying to split singles matches on Tuesday in a dual with the Golden Eagles at the Noyes Tennis Complex in St. Joseph.
Things were bad early for the Bulldogs as the number-one doubles team of Lexi Gott and Morgan Dolan was swept 8-0 and the number-two doubles team of Mallory Sole and Alaina Overton suffered the same fate – an 8-0 loss. Emilee Lovell and Lydia Leininger got on the board in their match, but LeBlond completed the sweep of doubles play with an 8-3 victory over the number-three Trenton tandem.
Things turned around a bit in singles play as Gott got an 8-1 win at number one to score Trenton’s first point of the dual. Lovell and Leininger closed the dual with 8-3 and 8-2 wins respectively, but three Trenton losses were sandwiched between the wins to give the dual to LeBlond.
Dolan fell 8-0 at number two, Sole lost 8-3 at number three and Overton was defeated 8-6 at number four.
“The varsity started out slow, but managed to pick up three wins in singles play,” Trenton coach Tammy Ockenfels said.
Trenton’s junior varsity, meanwhile, was playing its final dual of the season and picked up a 4-2 win over LeBlond’s second unit.
In singles play, Harley Hall won 6-4 and Jessika Kennedy and Faith Lee each picked up 6-1 victories. Serenity Marsh fell 6-3 for Trenton’s lone JV singles loss.
In doubles play, Harley Hall and Kennedy won 6-0 while Chloie Hall and Lindsey Babcock lost by a 6-1 margin.
“The JV finished their season strong with a 4-2 victory,” Ockenfels said. “With three seniors leaving, there will be more girls ready to battle for their spots.”
Trenton will travel to Chillicothe next week for the Class 1, District 15 Tournament. Chillicothe, Kirksville and Cameron will join Trenton in the district. The Bulldogs ran a record of 3-5 in dual action this season and defeated Kirksville (1-8) by a 7-2 score. Cameron is 0-8 on the season and Chillicothe, which beat Trenton just 5-4 last week, holds a record of 5-5.
The bracket for the district tournament was not out as of Thursday morning.
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