BLOOMINGTON KENNEDY 4, EDEN PRAIRIE 3
In the suburban battle of the Eagles, it was host Kennedy picking up their first win of the season in three tries over the visitors from Eden Prairie. The Blue & Gold Eagles took three singles and the third doubles to get their win. All their victories came in two sets. The Red & Black Eagles won the first two doubles, and third singles. All their triumphs went three sets. Second doubles proved to be the longest running match with two sets going to extra sets. The third set in that contest went to 27-25. EP now is 1-2 on the year.
SINGLES
1. Taylor Aufdencamp, K def Rhea Yenubari 21-8, 21-10
2. Morgan Aufdencamp, K def Maya Varikuti 21-14, 21-15
3. Weiwei Chen, EP def Lil Ki Ruiz Hernandez 21-15, 18-21, 21-15
4. Kaylee Phidavaah, K def Anaya Shekhawat 21-17, 21-19
DOUBLES
1. Laurel Connett/Lucy Gerst, EP def Candice/Bell 21-13, 18-21, 21-14
2. Elina Lissick / Amelia Wicks, EP def Helen / Somi 16-21, 22-20, 27-25
3. Fignesia / Olivia, K def Mihika Linge / Sudeeksha Neola 21-16, 21-15
BY THE NUMBERS
SINGLES
Matches: Kennedy 3-1 .750
Games: Kennedy 7-2 .778
points: Kennedy 177-143 .533
Set 1 points: Kennedy 78-60 .565
Set 2 points: Kennedy 84-62 .575
Set 3 points: Eden Prairie 21-15 .583
decided by 10+: Kennedy 2-0 1.000
decided by 3-: Kennedy 2-0
margin: Kennedy 3.778
DOUBLES
Matches: Eden Prairie 2-1 .667
Games: Eden Prairie 4-4 .500
points: Eden Prairie 156-156 .500
Set 1 points: Kennedy 55-53 .509
Set 2 points: Kennedy 62-55 .530
Set 3 points: Eden Prairie 48-39 .552
decided by 10+: none
decided by 3-: Eden Prairie 2-1
margin: Eden Prairie 0.00
FIRST SINGLES
Taylor AUFDENCAMP 2, Rhea YENUBARI 0
(20-8, 21-10)
Taylor Aufdencamp won her first match of the year with a sweep of Rhea Yenubari. Yenubari, is usually at second singles and was filling in the first spot today. Aufdencamp slammed the door on Yenubari’s service only allowing two service points while garnering 24 of her own. Aufdencamp also controlled the winners category with 22. Drives and smashes each accounted for seven points. Drives were Yenubari’s favorite winner too with six total. She only had three more to add to that.
This match was over quickly. A total of 10:15 was all that was required. Most of the points came on the second stroke The first four points of the match were all two strokes; eleven of her 20 points (they only went to twenty according to my records) with three more on one stroke. The longest rally in the first set came at Yenubari’s only service point of the set which came on her second service. That involved an Aufdencamp hitting error on the sixth stroke. The first set was tight out to 9-6 when two consecutive Aufdencamp runs of five put considerable distance between the two. That hot string continued in the second set when Aufdencamp had two runs of three and five gave her an 8-1 advantage. She added one more three point run and it came on the final service of the match. This set had more strokes that the first (104-68). Yenubari won the longer strokes, but they came on side outs, with her longest stroke win coming a ten stroke side out for her ninth point.
| Category | AUFDENCAMP | YENUBARI |
| Side out | 15/17-.882 | 7/17-.412 |
| Longest side out string | 14 | 2 |
| 3+ Runs | 6 | 0 |
| Longest point string | 5 3x | 2 2x |
| SERVING | ||
| Service points | 24 | 2 |
| Serving % | 37/40-.925 | 14/19-.737 |
| POINTS | ||
| Overall points | 41 | 18 |
| Points after 11 | 19 | 8 |
| Points after own errors | 8 | 6 |
| STROKES | ||
| Strokes | 109 | 63 |
| Strokes per point | 2.659 | 3.500 |
| 5+ rallies | 3 | 5 |
| 2- rallies | 22 | 10 |
| WINNERS | 22 | 9 |
| Aces | 1 | 0 |
| Blocks | 0 | 0 |
| Clears | 3 | 2 |
| Drives | 7 | 6 |
| Drops | 3 | 0 |
| Soft drives | 1 | 1 |
| Smashes | 7 | 0 |
| ERRORS | 9 | 19 |
| Deep | 0 | 0 |
| Net | 4 | 4 |
| Wide | 2 | 10 |
| Serve | 3 | 5 |
| W:E Ratio | 2.444 | 0.474 |
| Largest Lead | 12 | 0 |
| Margin | 11.50 | |
| Set Point % | 2/3-.667 | |
| Time | 10:15 |