17 May 2011

Boys Tennis: Tigers fall in season finale

Ivan Rodriguez
6-3, 7-5 winner at No. 3 singles

Tiger coach Jack Owlell said that on paper he felt his team had the edge at four of the seven positions in Monday's regular season finale at New Prague. On the court, however, the Trojans were the dominant team, scoring a 6-1 decision.
"Maybe it was a result of a long season of frustrating losses," Olwell said. "That often creates momentum in the wrong direction. In any case, just when it looked like we were in control we crashed and burned."
The lone Farmington point came at No. 3 singles where Ivan Rodriguez rung up a 6-3, 7-5 win.
"That was a fun match to watch," Olwell said.
Ben Cline played well at first singles in suffering a 6-3, 1-6, 5-7 loss and Blake Olmscheid put together a quality first set in a 6-7(2), 1-6 defeat at second singles.
The second doubles team of Jeff Zakoski and Brian Waldbillig also stuck in its match early, losing 5-7 in the opening set before being shutout 0-6 in the second.
New Prague 6 Farmington 1
No. 1 singles Ben Cline lost 6-3, 1-6, 5-7
No. 2 singles Blake Olmscheid lost 6-7 (2), 1-6
No. 3 singles Ivan Rodriguez won 6-3, 7-5
No. 4 singles Austin Tremmel lost 1-6, 1-6
No. 1 doubles Topher Kirchmann/Peter Folz lost 0-6, 0-6
No. 2 doubles Jeff Zakoski/Brian Waldbillig lost 5-7, 0-6
No. 3 doubles Jon Zakoski/Colton Sanders lost 0-6, 1-6