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HCC Sports Information
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Ashley Kirkpatrick scored the biggest
individual victory of the day for the Hutchinson Community College
women’s and men’s tennis teams on Wednesday against Tabor College,
but the Bluejays came away with team victories at the HCC Courts.
Kirkpatrick rallied in a super-tie
break to Erica Scofield at No 4. singles. After Jessica Armstrong
and Brooke Turner followed suit at Nos. 5 and 6 singles to tie the
match at 3-all, Tabor captured all three doubles matches to defeat
Hutchinson 6-3.
Tabor’s men defeated Hutchinson 8-1,
sweeping all six singles matches. The only victory for the Blue
Dragon men came at No. 1 doubles where Mark Barlett and Brandon
Dixon defeated Emerson Kochen and Jason Reising 8-5.
“I wish I would have played better in
the second set, but I didn’t want to lose to her, so I wasn’t going
to give up,” Kirkpatrick said of her singles match. “Thank God for
teammates cheering me on.”
After grabbing two service breaks to
easily win the first set 6-3, Kirkpatrick lost the second set 6-2 to
Scofield, a former Blue Dragon tennis player. In the super-tie
break, neither player could get more than a one-point lead until
7-all when Kirkpatrick won the final three points to take the match
that lasted right at 90 minutes.
“It felt good to know that you won
after all of that playing,” Kirkpatrick said. “I was just trying my
best. It feels pretty good.”
Armstrong defeated Tabor’s Tiffany
Bloemhof 6-4, 6-2 at No. 5 singles and Turner downed Tabor’s
Stephanie Welz 6-4, 6-2 at No. 6 singles to tie the match at 3-all.
Tabor took all three doubles matches
with HCC losing two heartbreakers.
Kirkpatrick and Karen Seirer led
their No. 2 doubles match 6-5 and dropped the final three games to
fall 8-6. Turner and Armstrong lost 9-7 in a tie-break at No. 3
doubles.
The Lady Dragons are 2-4 heading into
Thursday’s dual at Central Christian College in McPherson.
The Hutchinson men (2-4) didn’t have
a good day against the Bluejays. HCC won just two sets in singles
matches played at the Hutchinson city courts at the Fairgrounds.
Mark Barlett won the first set of his
No. 1 singles match against Tabor’s Emerson Kochen 6-1, but dropped
the second 6-1 before losing a tough super-tie break 10-8.
Kevin Montisano rallied from one set
down to defeat Scott Adrian 6-2 in the second set at No. 5 singles.
Adrian dominated the super-tie break 10-1.
In the No. 1 singles match, Barlett
and Dixon rallied from an early service break to defeat Adrian and
Reising 8-5 for HCC’s only point of the dual.
The HCC men also travel to Central
Christian College on Thursday.
Women’s Results
TABOR COLLEGE 6, HUTCHINSON 3
Singles
No. 1 – Laurel Delamater (T) def. Kim
Morgan (H), 6-0, 6-1
No. 2 – Ashlee Helmley (T) def. Taylor
Kenyon (H), 6-1, 6-2
No. 3 – Danni Frick (T) def. Karen
Seirer (H), 6-1, 6-1
No. 4 – Ashley Kirkpatrick (H) def.
Erica Scofield (T), 6-3, 2-6 (10-7)
No. 5 – Jessica Armstrong (H) def.
Tiffany Bloemhof (T), 6-4, 6-2
No. 6 – Brooke Turner (H) def. Stephanie
Welz (T), 6-4, 6-2
Doubles
No. 1 – Delamater/Helmley (T) def.
Morgan/Kenyon (H), 8-1
No. 2 – Frick/Amanda Wann (T) def.
Serier/Kirkpatrick (H), 8-6
No. 3 – Scofield/Welz (T) def.
Armstrong/Turner (H), 9-8 (9-7)
Men’s Results
TABOR COLLEGE 8, HUTCHINSON 1
Singles
No. 1 – Emerson Kochen (T) def. Mark
Barlett (H), 6-1, 1-6 (10-8)
No. 2 – Aaron Friesen (T) def. Brandon
Dixon (H), 6-4, 6-0
No. 3 – Jason Reising (T) def. Russell
Fluty (H), 6-1, 6-2
No. 4 – Chad Gayer (T) def. Derek Ohl
(H), 6-1, 6-0
No. 5 – Scot Adrian (T) def. Kevin
Montisano (H), 5-7, 6-2 (10-1)
No. 6 – Shane Miller (T) def. Casey
Eveleigh (H), 6-2, 6-0
Doubles
No. 1 – Barlett/Dixon (H) def. Adrian/Reising
(T), 8-5
No. 2 – Friesen/Kochen (T) def. Fluty/Ohl
(H), 8-0
No. 3 – Gayer/Miller (T) def. Montisano/Eveleigh
(H), 8-2 |
