NORTH ST. PAUL 4, TARTAN 3
In the battle of district 622 it was host North St. Paul topping neighbor Tartan 4-3. The Polars took all four wins at singles while the Titans ruled the doubles. NSP’s margins were heavy in the singles categories with seven of the eight sets decided by over ten points. Doubles proved to be tighter with no sets reaching double digit margins. Tartan won with doubles a margin of 3.143. The only three setter of the day came at second doubles with Madi and Viviane topping Audrey and Kabnag. The only extra point set came at third doubles in the first set with Angel and Anna Y getting to 24 for Tartan.
The Polars are now 2-0 against Suburban teams, and 4-3 overall. Tartan is 1-1 against suburban teams, and 1-3 overall.
SINGLES
1 Allie, NSP def Yer 21-14, 21-7
2 Autym, NSP def Arissa 21-8, 21-9
3 Anjali, NSP def Althea 21-10, 21-7
4 Lauren, NSP def Allison 21-7, 21-3
DOUBLES
1 Pearl / Evylynn, T def Danielle / Duashia 21-16, 21-16
2 Madi / Viviane, T def Audrey / Kabnag 21-12, 14-21, 21-18
3 Angel / Anna Y, T def Mu / Cherish 24-22, 21-16
BY THE NUMBERS
SINGLES
Matches: North St. Paul 4-0 1.000
Games: North St. Paul 8-0 1.000
points: North St. Paul 168-65 .721
Set 1 points: North St. Paul 84-39 .683
Set 2 points: North St. Paul 84-26 .764
decided by 10+: North St. Paul 7-0 1.000
decided by 3-: None
margin: North St. Paul 12.875
DOUBLES
Matches: Tartan 3-0 1.000
Games: Tartan 6-1
points: Tartan 143-121 .542
Set 1 points: Tartan 66-50 .569
Set 2 points: Tartan 56-53 .514
Set 3 points: Tartan 21-18 .538
decided by 10+: none
decided by 3-: Tartan 2-0 1.000
margin: Tartan 3.143
FIRST SINGLES
ALLIE 2, YER 0
(reported 21-14, 21-7, recorded 21-14, 20-10)
Allie of North St. Paul gained steam as the match with Yer went on getting a two set victory by cutting the margins down in the second set. The usual suspects of Side Outs, runs, and winners all were big on the Allie board. Her side out percentage was .667; runs, 6-2 and winners 33-8. On the subject of winners—Allie shifted her strategy from first to second set. She relied on six drives and four clears in her 18 first set winners. In the second set she move to five soft drives and five smashes. In set one Allie scored the first run of three on her third service to create a 6-2 cushion. At the turn at 11 Yer closed the gap to 11-9, but on Allie’s next two services she had runs of four and three to put the first set out of reach. It took until Allie’s fifth service in the second set before she scored her first run to lead 9-4. Allie’s biggest run came her seventh service with six points including three straight soft drives. The day ended with two straight Allie smashes.
As has been the theme of late, the winner was generous with missed serves. Today Allie had five total, while Yer never missed. Another factoid from today was neither player was able to generate much two stroke winners. Yer had one, while Allie had two, both in the first set.
I have no idea why the second set score got off the rails from my tally—a difference of four points, some added (one for Allie) and some subtracted (three for Yer).
Allie is now 2-4 on the year. Yer, in her second match at first singles after starting the first two matches at third singles, is searching for her first victory of the year at 0-4.
| Category | ALLIE | YER |
| Side out | 12/18-.667 | 7/18-.389 |
| Longest side out string | 3 | 1 |
| 3+ Runs | 6 | 2 |
| Longest point string | 6 | 3 |
| SERVING | ||
| First serve | 2 | 1 |
| First point | 1 | 2 |
| Service points | 23 | 7 |
| Serving % | 35/40-.875 | 25/25-1.000 |
| Point generated off serve | .561 | .292 |
| POINTS | 41 | 24 |
| Points after 11 | 20 | 10 |
| Points after own errors | 11 | 4 |
| Winners after own errors | 9 | 0 |
| STROKES | 148 | 74 |
| Strokes per point | 3.610 | 3.083 |
| 5+ rallies (%) | 6 | 7 |
| 2- rallies (%) | 5 | 10 |
| WINNERS | 33 | 8 |
| Aces | 1 | 2 |
| Blocks | 1 | 1 |
| Clears | 6 | 2 |
| Drives | 7 | 1 |
| Drops | 4 | 0 |
| Soft drives | 8 | 2 |
| Smashes | 6 | 0 |
| Even Stroke Winners | 14 | 2 |
| 2nd Stroke Winners | 3 | 1 |
| Odd Stroke Winners | 19 | 6 |
| ERRORS | 16 | 8 |
| Deep | 4 | 0 |
| Net | 3 | 3 |
| Wide | 4 | 5 |
| Serve | 5 | 0 |
| Even stroke errors | 5 | 1 |
| 2nd stroke errors | 1 | 0 |
| Odd stroke errors | 11 | 7 |
| WINNER LOCATION | ||
| Left | 20 | 6 |
| Right | 13 | 2 |
| Largest Lead | 7, 12 | 0, 1 |
| W:E Ratio | 2.063 | 1.000 |
| Margin | 8.500 | |
| Set Point % | 2/3-.667 | |
| Time | 16:38.35 |