Cookeville High School - Cookeville, Tennessee

Tennis tackles tough teams

Meg Ivey, Charger Staff

The excitement of spring is finally in the air, and sports at CHS are going strong. Men’s soccer, softball, baseball, and both track teams have gotten off to a great start. And who could forget the tennis teams?

After conditioning since January, the teams finally kicked off their seasons in a match against Mt. Juliet on March 26.
The girls crushed Mt. Juliet in a 9-0 victory, while the boys (struggling without number one Ryan Allison, and number two Justin Proctor) were heartwrenchingly defeated 1-7. Despite the 34 degree temperatures and foreboding clouds, both teams traveled to Lebanon on March 27 to pound the Blue Devils, the boys winning 9-0 and the girls 6-3.

Sunny weather returned for the Thursday match against Warren County in which both teams dominated, boys winning 8-1 and the girls 7-2. Both teams pounded Sparta on April 2, the boys winning an impressive 9-0, while the girls only dropped one set of ten.

In possibly one of the toughest matches of the season, the girls defeated rival Oakland Patriots 4-3 while the boys fought hard but couldn’t pull out the victory, losing 4-5. In a non-dictrict game against Cumberland County, the girls maintained their flawless record with a 9-0 victory. The boys struggled to come back after all three doubles teams losing, but only won three singles matches. They ended up losing 3-6.

Both teams are gearing up for more district games; the girls hoping to remain undefeated and the boys looking towards more district wins.