Shorecrest tennis squeaks out victory in final match of season

Jake
Goldstein-Street
Photo by
Robert Mann

In their final game of the regular season, Shorecrest tennis played Mountlake Terrace at the Mountlake Terrace High School courts on Monday, 10-10-16.

Shorecrest 4 - Mountlake Terrace 3 

Shorecrest squeaked out a victory in the final match to bring their record to 15-1 for the season.

The score was tied 3-3 overall with only double 3 left in the court. Micah Glesener and Sam Rowbotham were able to win the first set with ease 6-2, but ran into some struggles in the second set and lost in the tiebreaker 1-7. 

Since the teams had split sets, they had to play a final set to decide which school would be victorious.

  

Winston Park
Photo by Robert Mann

The Scots quickly fell behind 2-5, but found a way to dig out of the hole to win the next 4 games in a row to take the lead 6-5.

Terrace fought back and tied the score at 6-6, so a final tiebreaker had to be played.

Both teams battled hard, but SC was able to prevail 7-5 in the tie-breaker to secure the fourth victory needed to win the overall match.

Singles

1.  Cole Batra SC vs Jeremy Ansdell 0-6, 1-6

2.  Jacob Goldstein-Street SC vs Max Kribbe 6-0, 6-0

3.  Steven Zhu SC vs Alec Ung 6-1, 6-0

4.  Winston Park SC vs Ben McGraner 6-2, 7-5

Sam Rowbotham (left) and Micah Glesener (right) in the 2nd set.
The final set was under the lights.
Photo by Robert Mann

Doubles

1.  Kasey Shibayama / Reed Tangeman SC vs Adam Lorraine / Max Leidig 4-6, 3-6

2.  Chris King / David Kim SC vs Drake Duy / Trevor Swanson 2-6, 1-6

3.  Sam Rowbotham / Micah Glesener SC vs Morgan Subert / Owen Jones 6-2, 6-7 (1-7), 7-6 (7-5)

--Coach Robert Mann

Updated 10-13-16