A sweep of the three singles flights helped the racquet women of Springside Chestnut Hill Academy claim their first Inter-Ac League victory last Tuesday, when the Blue Devils obtained a 5-2 verdict against the host Patriots of Germantown Academy.
The three singles players for SCH are all juniors. Two of them, Leah Thomas and Ella Brown, have played in the first and second spots, respectively, since they were freshmen.
The third singles player for the 2024 squad, Ariya Goswami, is in her second season at that position.
The Blue Devils, who raised their overall record to 3-2, had …
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A sweep of the three singles flights helped the racquet women of Springside Chestnut Hill Academy claim their first Inter-Ac League victory last Tuesday, when the Blue Devils obtained a 5-2 verdict against the host Patriots of Germantown Academy.
The three singles players for SCH are all juniors. Two of them, Leah Thomas and Ella Brown, have played in the first and second spots, respectively, since they were freshmen.
The third singles player for the 2024 squad, Ariya Goswami, is in her second season at that position.
The Blue Devils, who raised their overall record to 3-2, had started the Inter-Ac campaign with losses to Agnes Irwin (2-5) and Baldwin School (3-4). GA, which was 2-3 overall after Tuesday's tilt, had opened league play with a 4-3 victory over the Academy of Notre Dame.
The first singles match ended quickly, with Thomas taking two 6-0 sets from Germantown Academy freshman Zoe Brownstein. In another bout pitting an SCH junior against a ninth-grader for the Patriots, Goswami won, 6-2, 6-1, over Erica Liang from the host team.
GA picked up a win in the next match to finish the first doubles contest. Patriots seniors Sadie Hess and Elena Lin first split sets with Springside junior Finley Redpath and senior Leah Laudenbach. Then, playing a tiebreaker instead of a full third set, Hess and Lin prevailed, 10-7.
After that, the visitors edged closer to the team victory as a 6-4, 6-1 decision at second doubles favored Blue Devils senior Farah Salehli-Horgan and freshman Riley Zlotkin over Patriot juniors Rebecca Rong and Audrey Yu.
SCH then locked up the overall match with a win by Brown at second singles, as she outlasted senior Jessica Wang in two long 6-3 sets.
Germantown's second win came in the third singles spot, where the Patriots had juniors Noelle Petersohn and Sedona Cohen split sets with visiting junior Scarlett Spector and senior Jenna Seidman and go on to win a 10-7 tiebreaker.
Players from both teams then gathered around the fourth doubles court, where Blue Devil seniors Georgia O'Connor and Tiara Williams-Mears won a long straight-sets battle, 6-4, 7-6 (7-5), against GA sophomore Angie Li and freshman Jessica Ma.
