Lady Cougars drop tennis match to Solomon Schecter 4-1

The Lady Cougars tennis team took on Solomon Schecter on Tuesday at Juniper Valley Park.

Highlights can be viewed here.

The Lady Cougars showed improvement, but still fell to Schecter 4-1.

The lone win for the Lady Cougars came in the third singles match that saw Vicky Yang win the match 8:4. It was a back and forth match that saw some great serves and back and forth rallies. Yang was able to take advantage of her strong serving and outlast Mariella from Schecter.

“She [Yang] won and that’s very impressive,” said Head Coach Leslie Aguirre. “She was doing great.”

The second doubles match was a nail bitter as Alain Goulbourne and Melva Toasa gave Schecter’s team all they could handle. It was a back and forth match and serving was key. Both teams had trouble handling the serves, but ultimately the Lady Cougars had all they could handle and dropped the match by a score of 6:8.

“In our second doubles they had good rallying and serving,” said Aguirre.

Dominique Bratton battled hard and had some of the most impressive rallies of the day in the first singles match. Despite the strong rallying Bratton dropped the match 1:8.

“I did notice that she wasn’t playing to the best of her effort,” said Aguirre.

The other matches saw Lauren Coyle fall in the second singles match by a score of 2:8. Toya Brown and Mia Gonzalez dropped the first doubles match by a score of 0:8.

Aguirre was pleased with her teams performance, but believes there is plenty of room for improvement.

 

“Serving is the number one thing we need to improve on,” she said.

The Lady Cougars will be back in action next Monday when they take on Long Island Lutheran at Juniper Valley Park at 4 p.m.

By: Michael Florio