Tennis team drops two

Wednesday, April 21, 2004

The Mountain Home Tiger tennis team dropped SIC 4A conference tennis matches to Bishop Kelly and Emmett last week.

Bishop Kelly 12

Mountain Home 0

The Tigers were swept by Bishop Kelly in an April 12 conference match played in Mountain Home.

Hiroto Kaneko lost the number one boys singles match to Andrew Gruber 4-6, 0-6. Drew White lost the number two boys singles match 3-6, 6-7 to Ben Kelly.

The Tigers forfeited the number three boys singles match to Bishop Kelly, but then Chris Ouellette played a tough hard-fought exhibition match with Bishop Kelly's Matt Gellert, losing 5-6.

In the girls singles, Jessica Hoover was shut out, 0-6, 0-6 to Kim Clements in the number one girls singles match. Julie Remington lost 1-6, 1-6 to Samantha Peterson in the number two girls singles match, and Danielle Fanuef lost in three to Youran Kim, 3-6, 7-5, 7-9.

In boys doubles, Kevin Lee and Chris Ouellette lost the number one doubles match 1-6, 1-6 to Sam Eaton and Kyle Balmer, and Taylor Acuff and Zach Fischer lost 0-6, 1-6, to Chris Mui and Tom Whitt.

In girls doubles, Bianca Arbuckle and Ashley Durand lost the number one match to Annie Watkins and Sarah Masterson, 1-6, 0-6, and Brianna White and Laura Lothrop lost 3-6, 2-6 to Elyse Whitesides and Marie Vermaas.

In mixed doubles, Phillip Roemer and Laura Rush lost 0-6, 0-6 to Dominic Elcox and Kayla Bergquist, and Thomas Martin and Mary Booth were shut out 0-6, 0-6 by Alex Miller and Elise Helvie.

Despite the shutout, Tiger tennis coach Phil McCluskey saw some positives.

"I was pleased with the improvement seen with Brianna White and Laura Lothrop (girls doubles play) and Danielle Fanuef, as well as Chris Ouellette in the exhibition match. As a team, we are very inexperienced, but as long as we continue to improve, we will definitely start winning some matches."

Emmett 8

Mountain Home 4

The Tigers swept all three boys singles matches at Emmett last Thursday, but won only one of the other nine matches against the Huskies.

Drew White overcame a 4-6 first set, to come back strong and beat Manuel Lipp 6-1, 6-4 to win the number one boys singles. Hiroto Kaneko lost a tie-breaker in the first set, but battled back to beat Kevin Adams 6-3, 6-1 in the next two, to win the number two boys, and Chris Ouellette downed Quan Phan of Emmett, 6-1, 6-1 for the number three boys singles.

In girls singles, Julie Remington won two 7-6 tie-breaker sets to win the number two girls singles over Emmett's Heather Road. Laura Rush lost the number one girls singles match to Lori Danser of Emmett, 0-6, 1-6, and Danielle Fanuef lost to Anna George in three sets, 6-4, 3-6, 4-6, in the number three girls singles.

In girls doubles, Bianca Arbuckle and Ashley Durand lost the number one match to Ashley Vogler and Andrea Bjorkman 0-6, 0-6. Brianna White and Laura Lothrop lost the number two doubles match to Andrea Weissenbuehler and Teianna Mabe, 1-6, 2-6.

In boys doubles, Phillip Roemer and Thomas Martin lost to Keith Adams and Kip Buck, 1-6, 0-6, in the number one doubles, and Taylor Acuff and Zach Fischer lost the number two doubles match to Sean Beckman and Clint Vickery, 0-6, 2-6.

In mixed doubles, Kevin Lee and Lindsay Horgan lost the number one match to Dustin Charters and Ericka Weissenbuehler, 0-6, 1-6, and Josh Lewis and Mary Booth were blanked in the number two match, 0-6, 0-6, by Shaun Savage and Karlissa Mendenhall.

Mountain Home won two of seven JV matches with Emmett, with Kevin Lee winning in boys singles, and Josh Lewis and Phillip Roemer winning in boys doubles.

The Tiger netters were at Vallivue on Monday, and return to Mountain Home for a Thursday match with Kuna. They are home on April 26 against Caldwell. Home matches start at 4 p.m., with half of them played at Richard Aguirre Park in town, and half at the courts on Mountain Home Air Force Base.

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