Wildcats Take on Top Team in Tennis, Lose to Divine Savior Holy Angels 5-2

The girls tennis team never fears serious competition.  The Wildcats schedule the best opponents they can find, often division 1 teams. That was the case Thursday. In a dual match against the area’s second-ranked team, Divine Savior Holy Angels, third-ranked USM lost 5-2.

USM won two of the four singles matches. In number 1 singles, USM’s Maddy Ecker clubbed Pattie Newby, 6-0, 6-0. Ali Pollack had an easy time of it beating DSHA’s Claire Schmidt, 6-0, 6-0 in number 2 singles.

The Wildcats lost the other five matches. In the 3 singles match, Emily Chrobak had a close match but lost to K.K. Doering 4-6, 6-2 (8-10), and in 4 singles, USM’s Caroline Taylor lost to Kysa Tuttle, 5-7, 2-6.  In the 1 doubles contest, Julia Vietinger and Nicole Harris lost to DSHA’s Mary Newby and Maddy Henderson, 2-6, 1-6.  Meredith Short and Taylor Benard worked valiantly, but eventually lost to Lane McLaughlin and Teressa Balistri of DSHA, 4-6, 7-5, (11-13) in 2 doubles, and in 3 doubles, USM’s Carly Black and Haley Gebhardt dropped their match against DSHA’s Morgan Dresewik and Regan Schmidt by a 1-6, 0-6 margin.

USM has no time to fret about losing to a top-level team.  The Wildcats turn right around and play in their own invitational, which begins at 2:30 p.m. Friday at USM.