ST. PAUL CENTRAL 5, EDEN PRAIRIE 2
#5 Central and #7 Eden Prairie renewed their rivalry on Friday the 13th with the host Minutemen topping EP for the second time this spring 5-2. Earlier in March Central beat EP 4-3. The Eagles were missing their first doubles team and in the previous meeting they picked up a win. The only player to reverse the result from meeting one was EP fourth singles Rachelle Johnson.
The top of the card had the most competitive matches with both teams splitting the results. In both cases the winner fell in the first set. May Garvey of Central and Tracey Yang of EP both rallied for their wins.
EP coach Becker was unavailable today. Coach Williams handled all responsibilities.
SINGLES
1. May Garvey, C def Ashley Nelson 17-21, 21-18, 21-11
2. Tracey Yang, EP def Annika Tuma 10-21, 21-16, 21-18
3. Malee Yang, C def Sanjana Seethmarju 21-8, 21-12
4. Rachelle Johnson, EP def Ki Seng Xiong 21-17, 21-11
DOUBLES
1. Claudi Feilmeyer/Xia Xiong, C def Rachel Ruhlin/Caroline Odegard 21-18, 21-11
2. Jada Brown/Julia Schultz, C def Roshina Mohamed Rafee/Katie Samide 21-15, 21-17
3. Chia Sangweng/Lisa Xiong, C def Emmily Considine/Gabby Andersen 21-16, 21-12
BY THE NUMBERS
SINGLES
Matches: tied 2-2 .500
Games: tied 5-5 .500
points: Central 184-164 .529
decided by 10+: Central 3-1 .750
decided by 3-: tied 1-1 .500
margin: Central 2.000
DOUBLES
Matches: Central 3-0 1.000
Games: Central 6-0 1.000
points: Central 126-89 .586
decided by 10+: Central 1-0 1.000
decided by 3-: Central 1-0 1.000
margin: Central 6.167
FIRST SINGLES
May GARVEY 2, Ashley NELSON 1
(17-21, 21-18, 21-11)
For the second time this year #3 May Garvey defeated #8 Ashley Nelson, but this time the action lasted three sets. Serving was an issue for both players in this game with a combined 17 errors. Line hugging led to more errors with clears or smashes just missing and this was on both ends. Neither player scored over .500 on percent of points on winners. I have included the winners and errors points per set to indicate how the match was evolving. Nelson’s error totals mushroomed to 17 in the last set—-81% of Garvey’s totals. Garvey cleaned up her errors in the final frame, almost cutting the second set total in half.
Nelson rallied from a five point deficit in the first set (9-4) to pick up the win. Garvey’s last lead came at 17-15 when she missed a serve deep. Nelson closed with a flourish and never gave the bird back. Five of those six points came on Garvey hitting errors, three of those on serve receive. Nelson made effective use of the right sideline in that set with six of her 11 winners coming close to that line. Garvey got out of the gate fast in the second set with the first four points. The Central senior added another run of four to stretch the margin to six (12-6). Nelson surged back with two runs of three sandwiched around one Garvey point to close the gap to 14-13. Garvey responded right back with the next run of three started with an eight stroke smash and capped by a nine stroke cross court drop (17-13). Garvey shut the door on Nelson’s serve in the third set (with Nelson’s help). Nelson only scored on two of her nine services. Four times she missed her first attempt, leaving her at 64% serving in the third set.
| Category | GARVEY | NELSON |
| Side out | 19/32-.594 | 17/30-.567 |
| 3+ Runs | 8 | 4 |
| Longest point string | 5 | 6 |
| Service points | 29 | 19 |
| Serving % | 51/58-.879 | 41/51-.804 |
| Point generated off serve | .500 | .373 |
| Overall points | 59 | 50 |
| Points after 11 | 25 | 29 |
| Points after own errors | 12 | 18 |
| Strokes | 219 | 170 |
| Strokes per point | 3.712 | 3.400 |
| 5+ rallies | 14(.237) | 13(.260) |
| 2- rallies | 22(.373) | 24(.480) |
| WINNERS | 28(.475) | 23(.460) |
| Aces | 0 | 3(.130) |
| Blocks | 0 | 0 |
| Clears | 6(.214) | 3(.130) |
| Drives | 4(.143) | 6(.261) |
| Drops | 4(.143) | 2(.087) |
| Soft drives | 5(.179) | 4(.174) |
| Smashes | 9(.321) | 5(.217) |
| ERRORS | 27(.540) | 31(.525) |
| Deep | 3(.111) | 8(.258) |
| Net | 6(.222) | 6(.194) |
| Wide | 11(.407) | 7(.226) |
| Serve | 7(.259) | 10(.323) |
| WINNER LOCATION | ||
| Back line | 6(.214) | 6(.261) |
| Middle | 11(.393) | 9(.391) |
| Front line | 11(.393) | 8(.348) |
| Left | 14(.500) | 11(.478) |
| Right | 14(.500) | 12(.522) |
| Winner count per set | 8-16-4 | 11-7-5 |
| Error count per set | 10-11-6 | 9-5-17 |
| W:E Ratio | 1.037 | 0.742 |
| Margin | 3.000 | |
| Set Point % | 2/5-.400 | 1/1-1.000 |
| Time | 21:26.28 |