The 2018 tennis team captains for Mount St. Joseph Academy are seniors Alexis Grafenstine (left) and Stow Weiss. (Photo by Tom Utescher) by Tom Utescher The quest for a fourth straight Catholic …
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The 2018 tennis team captains for Mount St. Joseph Academy are seniors Alexis Grafenstine (left) and Stow Weiss. (Photo by Tom Utescher)by Tom Utescher
The quest for a fourth straight Catholic Academies tennis championship began in an auspicious manner for Mount St. Joseph Academy last Thursday afternoon. Opening their season at home, the Magic won all five matches in straight sets over the visiting Panthers of St. Basil Academy.
For Mount St. Joseph, the players in the top two singles spots are the same ones that have been there for the past two seasons. In fact, senior Stow Weiss has occupied the number on singles spot since her freshman year. Her classmate Elizabeth Christine played third singles as a ninth-grader, and has been the Magic’s number two since her sophomore year.
Weiss, who’s being recruited by a number of Division I college programs, opened her final season with the Mount by topping St. Basil’s Hannah Carew, 6-4, 6-0.
“After the first set I had figured out the things that she doesn’t like to do,” Weiss said, “and I was able to take advantage of that in the second set.”
Christine, who was the champion last fall in the second singles flight at the AACA individual tournament, turned in two 6-0 sets last Thursday against Dymon S. Diggs of the Panthers.
Sophomore Grace Walker has moved up into the third singles position this year, and she dispatched the visitors’ Phoebe Mattia, 6-1, 6-1.
Senior Liz Meister and sophomore Rachel Zilligan are back together at first doubles for the Magic, and they put up scores of 6-1, 6-0 against the top pair of Panthers, Sam Scharf and Brianna McMonigle. Another senior/sophomore combo, made up of Lilly Doyle and Alexis Tran, completed the MSJ sweep with a 6-0, 6-0 victory at second doubles over Maddie Gallagher and Sarah Huntington of St. Basil’s.
When the Mount racquetwomen step outside of the AACA to play contests that involve two more doubles matches, the third pairing will likely feature sophomore Nancy Mabry and freshman Leah Scott, while sophomores Grace Finley and Bailey Haviland will play fourth doubles.
Scott comes to the Mount from the middle school at Springside Chestnut Hill Academy.
Mount St. Joseph’s team captains for 2018 are Weiss and senior classmate Alexis Grafenstine. Grafenstine’s mother, Joy, is back for her fourth season as head coach of the Magic.
