SHS GIRLS TENNIS STOPS LOSING STREAK BY BEATING BUCS

Gazette staff

Finding themselves in unfamiliar territory — amid a losing streak — Sequim’s girls tennis squad responded with a 6-1 crushing of Olympic League foe Kingston May 2.

Sequim won all but one singles match as the Wolves ran their season record to 7-4 in league play and overall.

Angela Richards didn’t lose a game in blanking the Buccaneers’ top singles player Rachel Bishop, while Sarah Hogoboom got her first singles win of the season by topping Hannah Hays 6-3 and 6-2.

In doubles action, Sequim’s Blaire Maloney and Kyla Hall outlasted Theresa Tucci and Kristina Lambert 1-6, 6-0 and 6-1, while Caihley Baker and Diana Earl improved to 7-2 as a doubles team with a 6-1, 6-1 win against Kingston’s Michelle Hunter and Maddie Miller.

Mary Cherrett and Kali Wake are now 9-0 as a duo with a straight set win while Jaysa Hill and Kari Hankins also won in straight sets.

The Wolves are slated to play in a 2A divisional tournament May 9-10. Top players advance to the 2A district tournament, set for May 16-17 in Federal Way.

Roughriders take rival match
The team that gave the Wolves its first loss in nearly four years did it again.

Port Angeles swept the singles matches and eked out a doubles match win to down Sequim 4-3 on April 30, the Wolves’ third loss in a row.

Sequim’s Hall took Port Angeles No. 1 Tinka Hanan to three sets before falling 6-1 in the third set.

Maloney and Richards combined to edge P.A.’s top doubles squad of Vanessa Estes and Cassidy Fairchild (6-1, 1-6, 6-3), while Baker and Earl didn’t lose a game in a two-set whitewashing of Roughriders Megan Hixson and Coco Piper.

Cherrett and Wake similarly didn’t lose a game in their straight-set win, Sequim’s third victory of the match.

Seahawks sweep league doubleheader
Thanks to a schedule abridged by unseasonably poor weather, the Wolves and Seahawks put a doubleheader on their calendars for April 28. In one long day of tennis, fans and players alike were treated to quite a duel.

After topping Sequim 5-2 in the first match, Peninsula swept the singles grouping and needed a third set tiebreaker in the fourth and final doubles match to pull out a 4-3 win in the nightcap.

Sequim got two, three-set wins in that same match. Hall and Maloney stopped Peninsula’s Alisa Padilla and Kaitlin Pifer, 6-2, 5-7 and 7-6 in No.1 doubles action. In No. 2 doubles play, Sequim’s Baker and Earl survived a 6-2, 4-6, 7-6 match against Olivia Galucci and Taylor Straus.

In the day’s first match, Sequim’s only wins came from Richards’ singles match, a straight set win against Leah Fujita (6-0, 6-1), and the Cherrett/Wake combo downing Peninsula’s Galucci and Straus, 6-4 and 6-2.