The Tyrone girls tennis team played a pair of away matches this week, Altoona on Monday and Huntingdon on Wednesday. In the match at Huntingdon, the Lady Eagles gave Huntingdon everything they could have wanted and more, before falling 4-3.
\nIn a long, and very tough match that had both girls going the limit, MaryElyn Hunter at number five singles, became the first Lady Eagle of the season to win a match, besting Victoria Easton 7-5, 6-3.
\nThen the Tyrone girls won both doubles matches. At number one doubles, Brittany Hosband and Kayla Patton defeated Sara Hopkins and Lauren Schmeck 8-1, and at number two, Amy Lewis and Laura Thompson downed Brittany McGraw and Emily Tapaphanas by an 8-4 count.
\nThis was the Lady Eagles\u2019 most competitive match with Lewis falling to Ashley Kifer 7-5 (tiebreaker), 6-2 at the number three singles and Elena Myers falling to Leah Shuck 6-2, 6-3 at the number four singles.
\n\u201cThis was a pretty competitive match. We had a real chance to win, but couldn\u2019t quite pull it out,\u201d said Tyrone tennis coach Mike Hample. If we could just crack through one or two more wins in singles. The doubles teams played well again, as has been their trend all year, and MaryElyn Hunter continued to play well. Give Kayla Patton a lot of credit at the number one singles. She lost to the Wang girl, who is probably the number one player in the district.\u201d
\nIn the Altoona match on Monday, the number two doubles team of Hosband and Hunter provided the only win for Tyrone in a 6-1 victory for Altoona and the number one doubles duo of Lewis and Thomas played well before falling 8-7 in a tiebreaker.
\n\u201cThere is a trend developing,\u201d said Hample. \u201cThe doubles continue to be very competitive, but the singles aren\u2019t doing as well as I would like.\u201d
\nMonday
\nAltoona 6 Tyrone 1
\nSingles
\nEmily Diviney (A) def. Kayla Patton 6-0, 6-0.
\nBrooke Bovard (A) def. Brittany Hosband 6-0, 6-0.
\nKelsie Shortsleeve (A) def. Amy Lewis 6-0, 6-0.
\nAmanda Simpson (A) def. Elena Myers 6-1, 6-0.
\nEmily Knott (A) def. MaryElyn Hunter 6-1, 6-1.
\nDoubles
\nShelby Mauk\/Bernedette Finochio (A) def. Lewis\/Laura Thompson 8-7 (Tiebreaker 7-5).
\nHosband\/Hunter (T) def. Alyssa Stangl\/Allison Schmitt 8-5.
\nWednesday
\nHuntingdon 4 Tyrone 3
\nSingles
\nJennie Wang (H) def. Patton 6-0, 6-0.
\nLera Tsyukova (H) def. Hosband 6-2, 6-1.
\nAshley Kifer (H) def. Lewis 7-5, 6-2.
\nLeah Shuck (H) Myers 6-2, 6-3.
\nHunter (T) def. Victoria Easton 7-5, 6-3
\nDoubles
\nHosband\/Patton (T) def. Sara Hopkins\/Lauren Schmeck 8-1.
\nLewis\/Thompson (T) def. Brittany McGraw\/Emily Tapaphanes 8-4.
\nExhibition
\nMyers\/Kayli Gray (T) def. Hillary Zanylo\/Jen Leitzeil 8-3.
\nChelsea Grove\/Madison Hopkins (H) def. Katy Sherry\/Heather Jones 8-3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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