Franklin girls’ tennis team drops close one

Published 11:05 am Wednesday, March 30, 2011

EASTVILLE—The Franklin girls’ tennis team lost 4-5 to Northampton High School on Tuesday.

The Lady Broncos took 4 of 6 single matches, but the Lady Yellowjackets swept all three doubles matches.
With two players missing the three lower seeds, the Lady Broncos stepped up a rung in the ladder with Jeanetta Sessoms winning at the No. 3 singles 9-7, No. 4 Kaitlyn Trotter won 8-1 and No. 5 Tyreckka Hawks won 8-2.

JaShonda Elliot played the No. 6 singles, winning 8-1. No. 1 seed Samantha Bruck lost her match 0-8, and No. 2 Sharnice Williams lost 6-8.
Franklin’s No. 1 pair of Bruck and Williams lost 1-8 and the No. 3 pair of Tyreckka Hawks and Rebecca Gray fell 4-8. The No. 2 doubles team of Kiera Cofield and Maura Zurfluh played a very competitive set only to lose in a tiebreaker 9-8 (7-2).

Box Score

Singles

#1 M. LeMoyne (N) def.  S. Bruck 8-0        #2 E. Cabello (F) def. S. Williams 8-6             #3 J. Sessoms (F) def. T. Campbell 9-7

#4 K. Trotter (F) def. C. Pease 8-1            #5 T. Hawks (F) def. B. LeCato 8-1                  #6 J. Elliot (F) def M. Savage 8-1

Doubles

#1 M. LeMoyne/E. Cabello (N) def. S. Bruck/S. Williams 8-1        #2 T. Campbell/ C. Pease (N) def. K. Cofield/M. Zurfluh 9-8 (7-2)
#3 B. LeCato/S. Cobb (N )def. R. Gray/T.Hawks 8-4

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