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Tuesday, May 9 – The Parry McCluer High School girls tennis team earned a 5-4 home win over Rockbridge County to improve to 11-0 on Monday at the Southern Virginia University courts in Buena Vista.
With the victory on the hot evening, the Fighting Blues swept the season series with the Wildcats (3-12). PM had also won 5-4 when the county rivals met in the season opener on March 15 in Lexington.
In the rematch, the Blues won two of three doubles matches and three of six singles contests. At No. 1 singles, PM junior Addisen Roberts defeated RC senior Sophia Fafatas 8-5 to avenge a 9-7 loss in their previous meetings. Roberts teamed up with senior Sadie Mays, who was honored before the match, to earn an 8-5 win over Fafatas and freshman Corinna Allen.
Other Blues winning singles matches were junior Olive King at No. 3 and Shafer at No. 4. Wildcats winning singles matches were senior Sara Topasna at No. 2, sophomore Sydney Remington with a 9-8 (7-3 tiebreak) win at No. 5 over sophomore Peira Conner, and sophomore Julia Newhall at No. 6.
The Blues will conclude the regular season with a Pioneer District match at Bath County today at 5 p.m. For the Wildcats, Fafatas is scheduled to play in the Valley District singles tournament today, and she’ll team up with Allen in the doubles tournament on Thursday, with both tournaments starting at 11 a.m. at Turner Ashby.
For the full story on this week’s action, with photos from Monday’s match, please see our May 17 newspaper. Coverage of last week’s action will be in this Wednesday’s newspaper.
PM 5, RC 4
SINGLES – Addisen Roberts (PM) d. Sophia Fafatas (RC) 8-5; Sara Topasna (RC) d. Sadie Mays (RC) 8-5; Olive King (PM) d. Corinna Allen (RC) 8-5; Macy Shafer (PM) d. Eleanor Goodhart (RC) 8-4; Sydney Remington (RC) d. Peira Conner 9-8 (7-3 tiebreak); Julia Newhall (RC) d. Marley Convers (PM) 8-0.
DOUBLES – Roberts and Mays (PM) d. Fafatas and Allen (RC) 8-5; King and Shafer (PM) d. Topasna and Goodhart (RC) 8-5; Remington and Katherine Lotts (RC) d. Conner and Peyton Chittum (PM) 8-4.
