RC Netmen Drop Three

The Rockbridge County High School boys tennis team dropped three matches last week, falling to Valley District rivals Spotswood and Turner Ashby and suffering a 6-3 home loss to Christiansburg on Thursday.

The Wildcats (2-7 overall, 1-3 district) started the week with a 9-0 road loss to Spotswood last Tuesday. The Trailblazers improved to 4-0 in the district and ended the week at 8-3.

Against Christiansburg, the Wildcats got singles wins from Harrison Tanner at No. 5 and Barrett Kosmas at No. 6, and the pair teamed up to earn an 8-3 win at No. 3 doubles. Christiansburg ended the week at 7-1.

The Wildcats won two of three doubles matches at TA (7-4, 2-2) on Friday, but the Knights won four of six singles matches. At No. 1 singles, RC’s Matthew Feldman came through with a 9-7 victory, and Nic Faulds won 8-4 at No. 2.

RC was scheduled to play host to Broadway yesterday and will have a rematch at home against TA today, Wednesday, before playing host to district rival Harrisonburg on Friday at the Lexington Country Club courts. All matches are scheduled for 4:30 p.m.

Spotswood 9, RC 0

SINGLES – Jackson Knight (S) d. Nic Faulds (RC) 8-5; Nathan Lees (S) d. Matthew Feldman (RC) 8-4; Cameron Cooley (S) d. Malcolm Kosmas (RC) 8-1; Maxwell Gass (S) d. Ben Barney (RC) 8-1; Ryland Wade (S) d. Eli Fox (RC) 8-0; Micah Wingfield (S) d. Harrison Tanner (RC) 8-5.

DOUBLES – Knight and Lees (S) d. Faulds and Barney (RC) 8-6; Cooley and Gass (S) d. Kosmas and Fox (RC) 8-0; Wade and Wingfield (S) d. Feldman and Tanner (RC) 8-3.

CHS 6, RC 3

SINGLES – Lucas Beasley (C) d. Matthew Feldman (RC) 8-3; Chris Roberts (C) d. Faulds (RC) 8-1; Calvin Rezac (C) d. Malcolm Kosmas (RC) 8-1; Ben Hendricks (C) d. Barney (RC) 8-3; Tanner (RC) d. Brodie King (C) 8-2; Barrett Kosmas (RC) d. Noah Gill (C) 8-1.

DOUBLES – Beasley and Rezac (C) d. Feldman and Malcolm Kosmas (RC) 8-0; Roberts and Hendricks (C) d. Faulds and Tanner (RC) 8-5; Tanner and Barrett Kosmas (RC) d. Calvin Snider and Barrett King (C) 8-1.

TA 5, RC 4

SINGLES – Feldman (RC) d. Levi Waidelich (TA) 9-7; Faulds (RC) d. Carter Alley (TA) 8-4; Caleb Landes (TA) d. Malcolm Kosmas (RC) 9-8 (7-3 tiebreak); Brandon Puffenbarger (TA) d. Barney (RC) 8-4; Mason Nesselrodt (TA) d. Fox (RC) 8-3; Tucker Bowman (TA) d. Tanner (RC) 8-5.

DOUBLES – Feldman and Malcolm Kosmas (RC) d. Waidelich and Alley (TA) 8-1; Faulds and Barney (RC) d. Landes and Nesselrodt (TA) 8-2; Puffenbarger and Bowman (TA) d. Fox and Barrett Kosmas (RC) 8-4.