MATH & SCIENCE 4, TRINITY 3
It was opening day for Math & Science today and they celebrated with a narrow 4-3 win over Trinity at home in Woodbury. The Dragons swept the doubles and added the third singles with Rachel Erickson’s win, the deciding fourth point. Erickson rallied from one set down to pull off the victory. Illustrating the tight nature of this match, that third singles contest went three sets. M&S won three of the three setters while both teams split the sets separated by three points with three apiece. The total point differential with these teams favored Trinity by a dozen points.
SINGLES
1. Maria Lotti, T def Ashley Kim 21-6, 21-10
2. Catherine Kieffer, T def Gabrielle Jensen 19-21, 21-19, 21-18
3. Rachel Erickson, M&S def Teresa Kieffer 16-21, 21-12, 21-14
4. Maggie Kocon, T def Esha Katare 21-7, 22-20
DOUBLES
1. Tomina Lee/Cindy Leewood, M&S def Anna Mayer/Audrey Zuelke 21-14, 13-21, 21-17
2. Emily Wong/Ojaswini Thodupunouri, M&S def Kaity Kisch/Kora O’Reilly 24-22, 21-14
3. Ava Farrell/Elly Walters, M&S def Annika Swanson/Monica Nicklaus 21-13, 21-19
BY THE NUMBERS
SINGLES
Matches: Trinity 3-1 .750
Games: Trinity 7-3 .700
points: Trinity 193-159 .548
decided by 10+: Trinity 3-0 1.000
decided by 3-: Trinity 3-1 .750
margin: Trinity 3.40
DOUBLES
Matches: Math & Science 3-0 1.000
Games: Math & Science 6-1 .857
points: Math & Science 142-120 .542
decided by 10+: none
decided by 3-: Math & Science 2-0 1.000
margin: Math & Science 3.14
FIRST SINGLES
Maria LOTTI 2, Ashley KIM 0
(21-6, 21-10)
The first time I charted Trinity this year Maria Lotti was playing at second singles. She moved back to first singles after a challenge match and made use of a strong side out and service game in stopping Ashley Kim. Lotti created separation in the first set on her second service where she tacked on eight additional points to stretch her lead to 11-2. Lotti had 13 winners in the first set and built three runs. Kim as able to generate one run closing the gap to six (11-5) but Lotti closed with a 10-1 kick.
After building a 5-1 lead in the second set, Lotti saw a resurgent Kim storming back with her longest run of the match (four straight) to tie it at seven. After a two stroke soft drive for point eight, Lotti strung together five more points including two straight aces—one deep and then one short. Lotti again had a healthy number of winners (15) in the second set, with seven coming on drops. Ten of her 15 winners fell in front of the service line. Winners were harder to come by for Kim with a total of six for the match. Most of the time Kim was on the defensive. She had a sequence where she fended off Lotti’s smash attempts three times in a row before Lotti adjusted and scored on off speed birds.
| Category | LOTTI | KIM |
| Side out | 7/10-.700 | 3/11-.273 |
| Longest side out string | 3 | 2 |
| 3+ Runs | 7 | 2 |
| Longest point string | 9 | 4 |
| SERVING | ||
| Service points | 32 | 6 |
| Serving % | .976 | .938 |
| Point generated off serve | .762 | .375 |
| POINTS | ||
| Overall points | 42 | 16 |
| Points after 11 | 20 | 7 |
| Points after own errors | 8 | 3 |
| STROKES | ||
| Strokes | 212 | 70 |
| Strokes per point | 5.048 | 4.375 |
| 5+ rallies | 24 | 8 |
| 2- rallies | 8 | 3 |
| WINNERS | 28 | 6 |
| Aces | 4 | 0 |
| Blocks | 0 | 0 |
| Clears | 4 | 1 |
| Drives | 1 | 2 |
| Drops | 9 | 0 |
| Soft drives | 4 | 1 |
| Smashes | 6 | 2 |
| ERRORS | 10 | 14 |
| Deep | 1 | 0 |
| Net | 3 | 9 |
| Wide | 5 | 4 |
| Serve | 1 | 1 |
| W:E Ratio | 2.80 | 0.43 |
| Margin | 13.00 | |
| Set Point % | 2/3-.667 | |
| Time | 12:22.57 |