LCHS Girls Tennis weekly wrap-up

[September 15, 2017]    Lincoln High’s girls’ tennis team had a 7-2 win at Pontiac High School, and a 0-9 loss at Pekin this past week. The match at Springfield Southeast was cancelled last minute due to a scheduling error.

At Pontiac, Lincoln’s players edged some out and won two tiebreakers to win all of the singles.

Julianne Funk had a 6-1, 6-0 score, which sounds like an easy win, yet was hard- fought.

Grace Skelton won 6-1, 7-6(0); Alice Roate, 6-3, 6-4; Madi Tanner, 6-3, 75; Brooke
Montcalm, 6-1, 4-6, 10-8; Madi Koehler, 6-0, 6-0, and Madisen Egnew, 6-3, 6-0.

In doubles, the team of Funk/Skelton won 8-4, and Roate/Koehler won 8-5, while Tanner/Montcalm lost 8-5, and Maggie Hanger/Egnew lost 8-2.

The Railers were beaten in all matches at Pekin.

“Some players did well in competing, earning some games, but couldn’t take the sets. A couple of our players had some of the best hitting I’ve seen. We needed more match strategy in a few cases. Closing out matches is always tough for newer players, but that is improving as we go,” commented Coach Jan Dickerson.

The doubles team of Grace Skelton/Alice Roate did very well in their match, played some excellent tennis, yet came out short in the end, with Pekin winning 6-3, 2-6, 10-6.
 

[Jan Dickerson, LCHS Girls Tennis Coach]