After sluggish play in doubles action, the Center varsity used unbeaten girls' singles play Saturday to knock off Jacksonville, 10-9, at the Roughrider Tennis Courts.
The win boosts Center to 2-0 on the young season. The Riders will return to action on Sept. 11 at Jacksonville, while the junior varsity hosts Kilgore next Tuesday.
The Center girls have gotten off to a strong start to the 2010 fall season. Against Jacksonville they posted wins in all six singles matches. They also recorded two extra match victories.
The wins included: No.1 Amber Noble topping Neisha Nays, 6-1, 6-1; Caroline Chadwick topped Ellie Day in No.2 action, 6-3, 6-3; in No.3 singles, Emily Howard topped Melody Melvin, 6-3, 6-3; Center's Darby Hudspeth defeated Elisha Carpenter, 3-6, 7-5(RET); Whitney Haddox was a 6-0, 6-2 winner over Briana Beaver in No.5 play; and Julie Wilkins of Center defeated Alicia Coronilla, 6-4, 6-4, in No.6 girls' singles.
In two extra matches played, Center's Ashton Lucas defeated Angelica Landin, 6-2, 6-4, and Lady Rider Emily Hearne defeated Landin, 9-7.
In boys' singles, Center was only able to pick up a pair of wins. Roughrider Jacy Clark defeated Spencer Jay, 6-0, 6-2, in No.4 action, while Center's Mario Jimenez defeated Jesus Tapia, 7-5, 6-4, in No.6 singles.
Jacksonville's Mercer Day knocked off Center's Seth Grant, 6-2, 6-0, in No.1 singles, while Dylan Hanna edged Center's Jesse Campbell, 6-1, 3-6(10-0) in No.2 play; Kyle Crosby defeated the Riders' Wesley Howard in No.3 singles, 5-7, 6-4,(11-9); and Morgan Weaver defeated CHS player Ross Reynolds, 6-4, 6-2, in No.5 singles.
In boys' singles extra matches, Center's Wil McFarland defeated Jacksonville's Eli Huggins, 3-6, 6-3(10-8) in No.7 singles, while the Indians' Jordan Alexander defeated Center's Cody Fountain, 6-4, 6-2 and Kwayde Lucas, 6-0, 6-4, in No.9 play.
Jacksonville won the only mixed doubles match s the duo of Day and Hanna edged the Center team of Howard and Hudspeth, 6-4, 6-4.
The Center girls' doubles teams captured 2-of-3 over their counterparts from Jacksonville. Center's No.1 duo of Noble and Chadwick edged Melvin and Nays, 6-3, 6-3, while the No.3 team of Lucas and Wilkins defeated their counterparts from Jacksonville, Beaver and Landin, 6-4, 6-1.
In No.2 girls' doubles, the Lady Indian duo of Carpenter and Coronilla defeated Center's Howard and Haddox, 6-4, 6-4.
The Indians swept all the boys' singles action. Day and Crosby knocked off Grant and Clark, 7-5, 6-4, in No.1 action, while Weaver and Jay defeated Campbell and Reynolds of Center, 7-5, 6-4, in No.2 play and Huggins and Tapia edged the Center duo of McFarland and Jimenez, 6-3, 6-2, in No.3 doubles.