On Wednesday evening, the Lady Hornets tennis team hosted its first team dual match at Danner Park under cool, cloudy conditions against Savannah High School. This was a big, early matchup as it matters already for the Midland Empire Conference seeding as well as the eventual district team seeding. Savannah walked in with a strong, deep team returning four of their top six varsity starters, including a returning state medalist at the helm. With the Lady Hornets only returning one varsity starter, there were lots of new faces and pairs on the courts. Chillicothe battled hard all night, taking most games to deuce but eventually losing as a varsity team 1-8.
The varsity results were as follows:
#1 Doubles — Lexy Smith & Lydia Bonderer lost 7-9 to Lily Fischer & Billie Hare
#2 Doubles — Summer Gatson & Rian Mathews won 9-7 over Reagan Alexander & Charlotte Cope
#3 Doubles — Trixie Leppin & Anya Moore lost 3-8 to Addisyn Steele & Annelise Forney
#1 Singles — Smith lost 1-8 to Fischer
#2 Singles — Bonderer lost 6-8 to Alexander
#3 Singles — Gatson lost 2-8 to Hare
#4 Singles — Mathews lost 4-8 to Steele
#5 Singles — Leppin lost 3-8 to Forney
#6 Singles — Moore lost 8-8 (tiebreak 4-7) to Cope
JV results were as follows:
Helena England & Arisha Shafiq lost 1-6 to Jones & Prather
Leighton Kelly & Rylee Rempel lost 0-6 to Bodenhausen & Farrell
Isabel Nagel & Jocelynn Albrecht won 7-7 (tiebreak 7-2) over Knorr & Yingling
Mackenzie Bagley & Halle Gabrielson lost 2-6 to Gregory & Becerra
Addison Fagan & Makaila Kennedy lost 0-6 to Schneider & Larson
Emily Ford & Dayahna White lost 0-6 to Bush & Shuster
Suzannah Leifker & Bently Peery lost 2-6 to Salsberry & Schmultzer
Gracie Moore & Amelia White lost 0-6 to Savage & Wheeler
Fagan & Kennedy lost 6-6 (tiebreak 3-7) to Savage & Kerns
Bagley & Gabrielson won 6-5 over Childers & Oliver
Nagel & Albrecht won 6-6 (tiebreak 7-3) over Bush & Shuster
England lost 0-6 to Jones
Nagel lost 4-6 to Prather
Kelly lost 0-4 to Bodenhausen
Rempel lost 2-4 to Farrell
*Several other exhibition matches were also played but not all scores were recorded