NORTH 5, SOUTHWEST 2

My out & about drought is over. It was a directional day in Minneapolis and North traveled to Southwest and dunked the Lakers 5-2 on their own court. The Polars split the singles and swept the doubles to put together their victory. The margins were extremely tight in singles with the average spread less than a point per set. Every set in the second singles match up, which was the last to finish, was 21-18. The first doubles also went three sets. In both cases Southwest grabbed the first set victory necessitating two straight wins for North. The second set at third singles went to Carla from Southwest at 25-23. The second set at third doubles also went to extra points which was claimed by the North pair of Duachi and Illy 24-22. The only real comfortable spread came in the fourth singles win by North’s Toni with double digit margins in each set.

SINGLES

1. Hanne, SW def Asiah 21-19, 21-14
2. Tilli, N def Kaysa 18-21, 21-18, 21-18
3. Carla, SW def Mynia 21-14, 25-23
4. Toni, N def Olivia 21-8, 21-11

DOUBLES

1. Doretha / Sanaa, N def Tusmo / Ralie 17-21, 21-11, 21-16
2. Ja’Niyah / Janieyah, N def Zora / Cassie 21-13, 21-14
3. Duachi / Illy, N def Paise / Frances 21-12, 24-22

BY THE NUMBERS
SINGLES
Matches: tied 2-2 .500
Games: Southwest 5-4 .556
points: North 172-164 .512
Set 1 points: North 72-71 .503
Set 2 points: North 79-75 .513
Set 3 points: North 21-18 .538
decided by 10+: North 2-0 1.000
decided by 3-: Southwest 3-2 .600
Extra pts: Southwest 1-0 1.000
margin: North 0.889
DOUBLES
Matches: North 3-0 1.000
Games: North 6-1 .857
points: North 146-109 .573
Set 1 points: North 59-46 .562
Set 2 points: North 66-47 .584
Set 3 points: North 21-16 .568
decided by 10+: North 1-0 1.000
decided by 3-: North 1-0 1.000
Extra Pts: North 1-0 1.000
margin: North 5.286

FIRST SINGLES

HANNE 2, ASIAH 0 (21-19, 21-14)

Hanne of Southwest provided the Lakers with one of their two points today with a sweep of Asiah. Hanne rallied from an eight-point deficit (15-7) in the first set and saw a nine-point lead in the second (12-3) evaporate to a twelve all tie before finishing with a 9-2 kick.

The side out game was not significant in this match up. Hanne was better but did not finish above .500. Hanne had the advantage in winners 27-12 with the drive favored with a dozen. It was interesting that the even stroke winners were almost non-existent. Most of the time when there was a change of service it was an odd stroke error that gave the bird back to the opponent.

You might notice the point totals for Hanne were one off. That is because I had the first set charted at 20-19. Asiah led 19-15 when a three-stroke shot sailed wide giving the bird back to Hanne. The final point by their tally was a marathon 16 stroke hitting error that went wide. That five-point run to end the first set helped fuel Hanne’s start in the second with six straight points.

Category	HANNE	ASIAH
Side out	5/12-.417	2/12-.167
Longest side out string	2	1
3+ Runs	3	2
Longest point string	6	9
SERVING
First serve	2	1
First point	2	1
Service points	29	22
Serving %	39/40-.975	33/34-.971
Point generated off serve	.707	.667
POINTS	41	33
Points after 11	25	18
Points after own errors	8	3
Winners after own errors	2	0
STROKES	174	127
Strokes per point	4.244	3.848
5+ rallies (%)	16	12
2- rallies (%)	6	9
WINNERS	12, 15-27	8, 4-12
Aces	2	1
Blocks	0	0
Clears	2	4
Drives	12	3
Drops	5	3
Soft drives	0	0
Smashes	6	1
Even Stroke Winners	3	3
2nd Stroke Winners	1	0
Odd Stroke Winners	24	9
ERRORS	11, 10-21	8, 6-14
Deep	1	0
Fan	2	3
Net	7	3
Wide	10	7
Serve	1	1
Even stroke errors	7	4
2nd stroke errors	3	1
Odd stroke errors	14	10
WINNER LOCATION
Left	16	7
Right	11	7
Largest Lead	1, 9	8, 0
W:E Ratio	1.286	0.857
Margin	4.00
Set Point %	2/3-.667
Time	16:34