HIGHLAND PARK 6, HUMBOLDT 1
Highland Park swept the singles and took the last two doubles to beat Humboldt 6-1 in St. Paul city conference action Tuesday afternoon. The Scots had five sets in the singles that were decided by double digits. The Hawk pair of Tree & Yunee delivered a two set win for Humboldt. No sets lasted longer than two in this match. There were two sets in doubles that were decided by the slim margin of two points with both sides getting a narrow win. Tree & Yunee did so in their first set; the HP third doubles pair of Claudia Rodriguez-Foster and Violet Solem Valentine picked it up for the Scots.
This was Humboldt’s second straight match in as many days. Yesterday they fell at Edina 7-0 to the Hornets.
St. Paul conference action start times will move to later in the afternoon thanks to bus issues. Today’s match was not impacted by that new time schedule.
SINGLES
1. Sunshine Vang, HP def Wah Chri 21-3, 21-8
2. Phlower Vang, HP def Ek Kler 21-6, 21-1
3. Sara Shiferaw, HP def La Toe 21-7, 21-15
4. Tscheng Yang, HP def Sofia 21-14, 21-13
DOUBLES
1. Tree/Yunee, H def Katia Gercheva / Elie Boudet 21-19, 21-16
2. Bety Shiferaw / Satori Soulisak-Hoang, HP def Tha Lay / San San 21-17, 21-11
3. Claudia Rodriguez-Foster / Violet Solem Valentine, HP def Eh Dah / Paw Ney 21-19, 21-17
BY THE NUMBERS
SINGLES
Matches: Highland Park 4-0 1.000
Games: Highland Park 8-0 1.000
points: Highland Park 168-67 .715
Set 1 points: Highland Park 84-30 .737
Set 2 points: Highland Park 84-37 .694
decided by 10+: Highland Park 5-0 1.000
decided by 3-: none
margin: Highland Park 12.625
DOUBLES
Matches: Highland Park 2-1 .667
Games: Highland Park 4-2 .667
points: Highland Park 119-106 .529
Set 1 points: Highland Park 61-57 .517
Set 2 points: Highland Park 58-49 .542
decided by 10+: Highland Park 1-0 1.000
decided by 3-: split 1-1 .500
margin: Highland Park 2.167
FIRST SINGLES
SUNSHINE VANG 2, WAH CHRI 0
(21-3, 22-8)
Highland Park’s Sunshine Vang did shine brightly in her two set sweep over Humboldt’s Wah Chri. Vang held Chri to only two points off her service and limited her winners to three. Vang piled up 27 winners. When Chri had the serve (ten times), Vang stopped it six times on a two stroke soft drive to the racquet hand. The other time that she got a winner on the two stroke was on a smash.
The scene was set quickly with Vang getting the two stroke soft drive to open the match and then added eight more points for a 9-0 lead. Her next service tacked on six more for a commanding 16-1 lead. All the points in that second service scored as winners. Set two was closer, and there was one point where the players lost track of the totals. Chri never did have a run, but she did tie it at four with two consecutive points. A serve that sailed deep gave the bird back and Vang ran off six more for an 11-4 lead. Toward the end Chri had more errors on the two stroke. Four of Vang’s last seven points came in this manner including the final two.
Vang made quick work of Chri. The whole match lasted one second under ten minutes.
| Category | VANG | CHRI |
| Side out | 8/10-.800 | 4/11-.364 |
| Longest side out string | 4 | 2 |
| 3+ Runs | 6 | 0 |
| Longest point string | 9 | 2 |
| SERVING | ||
| First serve | 2 | 1 |
| First point | 1,2 | |
| Service points | 33 | 2 |
| Serving % | 39/42-.929 | 11/12-.917 |
| Point generated off serve | .767 | .182 |
| POINTS | 43 | 11 |
| Points after 11 | 21 | 6 |
| Points after own errors | 7 | 4 |
| Winners after own errors | 6 | 1 |
| STROKES | 144 | 31 |
| Strokes per point | 3.349 | 2.818 |
| 5+ rallies | 10 | 2 |
| 2- rallies | 15 | 6 |
| WINNERS | 28 | 3 |
| Aces | 2 | 0 |
| Blocks | 1 | 0 |
| Clears | 7 | 0 |
| Drives | 2 | 1 |
| Drops | 2 | 0 |
| Soft drives | 11 | 2 |
| Smashes | 3 | 0 |
| Even Stroke Winners | 8 | 3 |
| 2nd Stroke Winners | 7 | 3 |
| Odd Stroke Winners | 20 | 0 |
| ERRORS | 8 | 15 |
| Deep | 0 | 3 |
| Net | 2 | 5 |
| Wide | 3 | 6 |
| Serve | 3 | 1 |
| Even stroke errors | 2 | 13 |
| 2nd stroke errors | 1 | 6 |
| Odd stroke errors | 6 | 2 |
| Largest Lead | 18, 14 | none |
| W:E Ratio | 3.50 | 0.20 |
| Margin | 16.00 | |
| Set Point % | 2/2-1.000 | |
| Time | 9:59 |