ROOSEVELT 6, EDISON 1
Teddies topped Tommies on Wednesday afternoon by a 6-1 score. This was a day after Roosevelt was swept by Washburn in a make up game. Edison was off the day before due to an emergency. The visiting Tommies were able to get their win at second singles. That match and third doubles went three sets. The most competitive match of the day came at second doubles with the differential between Suad & Samara and Ann & Kade only five points. Rising in the ranks is Kyla from Roosevelt. Last week against Southwest she was first singles. She has jumped to third singles on varsity and had the biggest margins of any player.
I am now down to one school left: Hiawatha. I don’t know when they will be charted yet.
SINGLES
1. Alice, R def Maiya 21-13, 21-12
2. Pou, E def Nancy 21-9, 18-21, 21-16
3. Kyla, R def Huda 21-5, 21-8
4. Hannah, R def Sabrina 21-11, 21-7
DOUBLES
1. Julia/Maya, R def Silah/Armada 21-14, 21-12
2. Suad/Samara, R def Ann/Kade 22-20, 21-18
3. Re/Annika, R def Sandy/Fawsia 21-18, 14-21, 21-12
BY THE NUMBERS
SINGLES
Matches: Roosevelt 3-1 .750
Games: Roosevelt 7-2 .778
points: Roosevelt 172-116 .597
decided by 10+: Roosevelt 4-1 .800
decided by 3-: Roosevelt 1-0 1.000
margin: Roosevelt 6.222
DOUBLES
Matches: Roosevelt 3-0 1.000
Games: Roosevelt 6-1 .857
points: Roosevelt 141-115 .551
decided by 10+: none
decided by 3-: Roosevelt 3-0 1.000
margin: Roosevelt 3.714
FIRST SINGLES
ALICE 2, MAIYA 0
(21-13, 21-12)
No, we are not in Brazil where soccer players are known by first names, but, for a day at least in Minnesota, we had a samba-like patter with the names. Alice had a “smashing” day as she blanked Maiya 13-12. The second set should be 22-12. For some reason both players got off count and it should be 23-12 in the final frame. Alice had 17 smashes and that total was six more than the Maiya winners. The Smash pattern for Alice went like this: Serve deep, Maiya would try to clear and Alice was ready to pounce at the net. Of Alice’s 17 smashes, nine came on stroke 3. The match wasn’t always pointed to Alice. Maiya started off the match with the first three points and led 6-2 before the birds hung out there ready to be crushed by Alice. She rang off six straight to take an 8-6 lead and then added seven more on her fifth service of the first set to build a 15-8 margin. In set two it was Alice that grabbed the initiative with the first three points. Maiya closed the gap to 10-7, but Alice was able to score on all but one of her services in the second set while Maiya was shut out half the time.
| Category | ALICE | MAIYA |
| Side out | 8/15 | 5/17 |
| Longest side out string | 3 | 1 |
| 3+ Runs | 8 | 3 |
| Longest point string | 7 | 3 |
| SERVING | ||
| Service points | 28 | 10 |
| Serving % | .930 | .917 |
| Point generated off serve | .651 | .417 |
| POINTS | ||
| Overall points | 43 | 25 |
| Points after 11 | 10 | 20 |
| Points after own errors | 10 | 8 |
| STROKES | ||
| Strokes | 152 | 77 |
| Strokes per point | 3.535 | 3.08 |
| 5+ rallies | 8 | 2 |
| 2- rallies | 8 | 6 |
| WINNERS | 29 | 11 |
| Aces | 0 | 0 |
| Blocks | 2 | 2 |
| Clears | 4 | 2 |
| Drives | 3 | 4 |
| Drops | 1 | 0 |
| Soft drives | 2 | 1 |
| Smashes | 17 | 2 |
| ERRORS | 14 | 14 |
| Deep | 3 | 1 |
| Net | 4 | 9 |
| Wide | 4 | 2 |
| Serve | 3 | 2 |
| W:E Ratio | 2.071 | 0.786 |
| Margin | 9.00 | |
| Set Point % | 2/2-1.000 | |
| Time | 14:45.34 |