Monday, April 30, 2012

Reed Tennis Machine 

Expected Tournament Line-up for Cinco de Mayo:

Boys Varsity:

No. 1:  Fernando Corona and Salvador Mercado
No. 2:  Chance Lemus and Imanol Mercado
No. 3:  Cullen Britton and Jacob Norton
No. 4: Jack Kisch and Samuel Zimmerman

Girls Varsity: 

No.1:  Courtney Chavez and Touchsada Janon
No. 2: Isamaya Hagstrom and Madison Sheets
No. 3: Breeana Dykstra and Ivy Ryan
No. 4: Katya Hernblom and Alissa Hinojsa

Girls Jr. Varsity: 

Emma Maggie-Byers &Nicole Standiford; Tennyson Norton & Morgan Coulter; Crystal Gonzalez  & Sammi Hammond.




Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Tournament & Practices leading to Conference Championship

Our Conference Championship Tournament is Saturday, May 5.

In the tournament, doubles teams will play in pools of 3 teams, playing against the double team with the same ranking from each of the other two schools in the league: Walt Clark and Erwin.

The boys need to check in at 8:30 and their games begin at 9:00.  
The girls check in is at 11:00 am. Naturally, we encourage our girls to arrive at 10:00 to cheer the boys on, and we'd like the boys to stay till 1:00 to root for the girls if possible.

We will continue to have practices on Monday, Wednesday, and Fridays - except May 4 (no practice) leading up to Conference.

We are also planning a post-tournament celebration day, Wednesday, May 9, from 3:00 - 4:30 pm.
Students should come dressed to play tennis games on the field. 




Friday, April 20, 2012

Reed Tennis Scrimmage Results against Walt Clark, April 19

The Reed Tennis Machine did unpleasantly surprise league leaders and rivals Walt Clark yesterday at Mountain View High School.  We played hot and cool under slightly rainy skies.

If girls do cry more easily, for both sorrow and joy, we added to that possibility yesterday, when our girls dominated the day, winning 6 of 7 matches. Congrats to Sofia Ozambala and Ivy Ryan for their Varsity Doubles No. 2 win and Isamaya Hagstrom and Madison Sheets Varsity 3 win.

You have to hand it to the duet, Alissa Hinojsa and Katya Hernblom, they remain undefeated, and won the varsity 4 match 6 games to none, giving these boisterous girls some bragging rights.

Emma Maggie-Byers and Nicole Standiford racked up a 6-2 win. And 6th graders Crystal Gonzalez and Sammi Hammond kept smiling and perservered to win 6 games to 4. 

Reed girls also made a couple guys cry - girls can do that to you ya know - as Tennyson Norton, Morgan Coulter and Vanessa Romero played against Walt Clark boys and won decisively, 6 games to 1, offering cheery handshakes for condolences.

But Reed Boys Tennis was not to be outdone yesterday. Our guys were kinda the mountain men of Tennis yesterday.  Samuel Zimmerman and Jack Kisch took varsity game no 4.  Imanol Mercado and Chance Lemus teamed up to win varsity 3.  and Fernando Corona and Salvador Mercado regained their top of the hill status, beating the Walt Clark no. 1 varsity team, 6 games to 5.   Way to go guys.

The days final tally was Reed Tennis 9 matches to Walt Clark 2, making Reed the regular season winners and leaders. Brightest of all was the Reed Team's positive enthusiasm, we think filling their coaches and parents with a lot of Reed Pride.

Get ready and please join us May 5th when we play in the district tournament on Cinco de Mayo at Thompson Valley High School.

Thank you,

Mr. Hagstrom and Mrs. Kinnard

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Reed Tennis Scrimmage Results against Erwin, April 17

Wow - A fun and exciting day for Reed Tennis players and their families under sunny skies at Loveland High School against a undermanned Erwin Squad - a fourth of their team were away in their role as thespians.  The day's highlight game was the boys no.1 varsity doubles match up of Fernando Corona and Salvador Mercado against the Erwin no. 1 team.  The one set game went on for more than an hour as the four boys battled through deuces in many games.  Erwin took the game, but that was about all they took yesterday afternoon.

The other big story was Touchsada Janon and Courtney Chavez.  They beat two Erwin varsity girls doubles teams and earned the spot of Reed girls varsity no.1 position.   Brianna Dykstra and Ivy Ryan also beat the Erwin no. 2 varsity team 6 games to 2.

Since Erwin was short on players, Reed played Reed in a concert of close games and good sportsmanship.  Isamaya Hagstrom and Madison Sheets beat the tough and undefeated team of Katya Hernblom and Alissa Hinojsa, just barely, 6 games to 5.  Emma Maggie-Byers and Tennyson Norton held off Sofia Ozambala and Nicole Standiford in another close match.  Then Crystal Gonzalez and Morgan Coulter won the JV division, while the team of Vanessa Romero and Sammi Hammond also came away with a win.

In boys varsity action, Cullen Britton and Jacob Norton won both their matches including another close marathon game over their own Reed rivals, Chance Lemus and Jack Kisch, 6 games to 4 and played right into dinner time.

Give congrats to the Reed Tennis team players; they played great tennis and showed good sportsmanship yesterday afternoon.

Next up is league leader Walt Clark, this Thursday at Mountain View High School.  We think Clark will be unpleasantly surprised by the Reed Tennis Machine, now in full swing.

Coach Hagstrom and Coach Theresa Kinnard