Prep sports: SHS’s girls soccer opens with a win, tennis goes 1-1
Published 1:30 pm Wednesday, September 16, 2015
The Lady Wolves soccer team (1-0 overall) started their season on the road with a 2-0 win over the Chimacum Cowboys (0-2 overall) on Sept. 10.
Both teams were held scoreless in the first half but Abigail Hansted opened the second half nearly two minutes in with a goal on an assist from Mattie Clark.
At 64 minutes in, Raelynn Opdyke scored for the Wolves unassisted.
The Wolves traveled to Klahowya (2-0 overall) on Sept. 15 and host Coupeville (1-1 overall) at 5 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 17.
Tennis goes 1-1
The Wolves boys tennis team split its first week of matches but head coach Justine Wagner said it’s matter of getting players comfortable on the court.
“We’ve got some really great strategies but we need to learn some strategies,” she said.
The boys’ first match-up came on the road on Sept. 8 in a 5-2 loss to the Olympic Trojans (1-1 overall), but they nearly blanked all of their matches in a 7-0 win on Sept. 10, against the short-handed North Mason Bulldogs (0-1) in Sequim.
Against the Trojans, Justin Porter and Stephen Prorok, the No. 1 doubles team, and Tim Porter and Casey Chapman, No. 3 doubles, won the only matches for the Wolves. Porter and Prorok won 6-3 in both sets and Tim Porter and Chapman won in three sets.
At home, No. 1 singles player Matthew Richards defeated Steve Settlemeier 6-0 in both sets, and No. 2 player Dillon Liebert won 6-0 in both sets over Jeff Smethers.
Two matches were forfeited by the Bulldogs at No. 3 singles and Porter and Prorok won 6-0 in two sets in No. 1 doubles, and Blake Wiker and Raymond Lam won
No. 3 doubles 6-1 in two sets. The closet match came in No. 2 doubles where Casey Chapman and Tim Porter came from behind to win 4-6, 6-4, 10-8.
Wagner said she doesn’t expect too many changes to start the season between the varsity players. “We’re focused on the groups we have and getting the comfortable with each other,” she said.
The Wolves hosted Coupeville (0-0) on Sept. 14 and travel to Bremerton (1-1 overall) on Wednesday, Sept. 16, and Kingston on Friday, Sept. 18. Their next home match is against Chimacum on Sept. 25.
