BURNSVILLE 5, EDINA 2

With most schools on spring (or is it winter) break, there hasn’t been a lot of action on the badminton front…. until today. Two suburban teams clashed at Edina High School with visiting Burnsville, currently #6 in the poll, topping the #9 Hornets 5-2. The Blaze took all four singles and second doubles in the win.  Three of the winners today trailed after the first set. Burnsville claimed two of the comeback wins at fourth singles and second doubles. Burnsville also won the two point sets 3-2. Both teams won the third set at first and second doubles by the same 21-19 score. Only one set went to extra points and that came at third singles in the first set. Edina’s third doubles team of Abby Dzandzara and Katy Mendel had the biggest margin differential of any flight with 13.5 points. The tightest match went to the Burnsville second doubles pair of Malorie O’Brien and Megan Kortenhof (1.67). Overall the doubles proved to be the most competitive with a differential of three. On the singles side Burnsville edged Edina in the first set by five, but increased their differential to thirty in the second set across the board.

SINGLES
1. Rachel Waterman, B def Mia Coma 21-15, 21-16
2. Makayla Haddorf, B def Talia Bjelland 21-19, 21-10
3. Nawal Abdiwahed, B def Shay Reger 24-22, 21-12
4. Mai Ngo, B def Charlotte Everist 16-21, 21-16, 21-10

DOUBLES
1. Lindsay Lundberg/Arden Ruehl, E def Carly Dahl/Hana Handzija 19-21, 21-9, 21-19
2. Malorie O’Brien/Megan Kortenhof, B def Katie Froemming/Maddie Hoff 16-21, 21-13, 21-19
3. Abby Dzandzara/Katy Mendel, E def Sacha Genis/Abbie Bekele 21-6, 21-9

BY THE NUMBERS
SINGLES
Matches: Burnsville 4-0 1.000
Games: Burnsville 8-1 .889
points: Burnsville 187-141 .570
decided by 10+: Burnsville 2-0 1.000
decided by 3-: Burnsville 2-0 1.000
margin: Burnsville 5.11
DOUBLES
Matches: Edina 2-1 .667
Games: Edina 5-3 .625
points: Edina 156-132 .542
decided by 10+: Edina 2-0 1.000
decided by 3-: tied 2-2 .500
margin: Edina 3.00

FIRST SINGLES

Rachel WATERMAN 2, Mia COMA 0
(21-15, 21-16)

#6 Rachel Waterman of Burnsville defeated #9 Mia Coma by similar scores of 15 and 16, but the pathway to victory was different in each case. Waterman grabbed the lead with an opening run of four in the first set. In the second set she got her first lead at 8-7 and didn’t maintain the lead for good until a run of four put her up 12-10. Waterman had advantages in winners (+10) with four categories contributing five points or more. Clears led the way with eight. Coma had one category (the soft drive with six) that met that standard. Waterman’s side out game came in with an effective .727 mark. The first set was her best effort at .818. Coma’s service game was off with six errors on 31 attempts (.806). Coma favored the right side with her winners 75% of the time, and the front court 50%. Waterman’s winners slightly favored the right side of the court (54%).

After the run of four to open the match, Waterman tacked on another run of three on her third service to reach her widest margin in the set with six points (8-2). Coma generated a four point run capped by a line hugging ace to the right side (9-7), but a service error ended that surge. No one was able to garner another run in the first set, but Waterman was able to squeeze one point off serve four of her last five services and held Coma scoreless her last five services.

In set two Coma started off holding Waterman scoreless on her first three serves and that helped uild up a 5-2 advantage. After allowing a point on Coma’s first two serves, Waterman stopped her three straight times helping to take the lead at 8-7. Coma took advantage of Waterman hitting errors to get the first run of the set and was back in front 10-8. The missed serve opened the door for Waterman and she barged through with a 7-1 run over the course of two services (15-11). Both players were in side out mode until Waterman finished with the last three points. The second set featured more two stroke points than the first set. Twenty of the 37 points in the set were decided by two strokes or less (54%).

Category	WATERMAN	COMA
Side out	16/22-.727	11/23-.478
3+ Runs	5	2
Longest point string	4	4
Service points	20	9
Serving %	39/42-.929	25/31-.806
Point generated off serve	20/42-.476	9/31-.290
Overall points	42	31
Points after 11	20	13
Points after own errors	12	10
Strokes	159	88
Strokes per point	3.786	2.839
5+ rallies	14	3
2- rallies	14	16
WINNERS	26	16
Aces	0	2
Blocks	0	1
Clears	8	4
Drives	5	1
Drops	1	2
Soft drives	7	6
Smashes	5	0
ERRORS	15	16
Deep	2	1
Net	3	7
Wide	7	2
Serve	3	6
WINNER LOCATION
Back line	9(35%)	4(25%)
Middle	9(35%)	4(25%)
Front line	7(27%)	8(50%)
Left	12(46%)	4(25%)
Right	14(54%)	12(75%)
W:E Ratio	1.733	1.000
Margin	4.50
Set Point %	2/3-.667
Time	14:41.49