This past week varsity tennis faced off against two Georgetown teams with a win against Eastview and a tough loss against Georgetown.

Varsity faced off in a very close match against Eastview and pulled off the win.

Girls-Doubles faced a couple of tough matches when senior Ashley Snieder and senior Bailee Higgins scored 6-1 in the first set and 6-2 in the second set giving the Lions the win. Senior Katie Lofton and junior Madison Flesner scored 6-0 in both of their sets falling to Eastview in their doubles match. Sophomore Lauren Fuller and sophomore Alexandra Peterson faced a close first set with a score of 7-6 but fell in the second set with a score of 6-3.

Boys-Doubles also faced a series of close matches when senior Alper Orkun and junior Joseph Rexrode scored 6-4 in both of their sets giving Leander the win. Senior Keaton Adcock and senior Kiefer Peckham faced a close doubles match when they scored 6-3 in the first set, 3-6 in the second set, but fell just barely in the final set with a score of 14-12. Junior Luis Farias and junior Russell Thomas faced an easy match when they scored 6-2 in the first set and 6-1 in the second set giving Leander the win.

“Towards the beginning of the year it was a lot better, but recently it hasn’t been as good, we haven’t had a lot of time to practice together that is, if we do get more chances to practice together then it’ll be more effective,” said Rexrode when talking about his doubles partner Orkun.

Mixed-Doubles faced a challenging Eastview MX-doubles match when junior Adhithya Balaji and sophomore Emilee Scanlon scored 6-4 in their first set, 0-6 in their second set, but pulled off the victory in the final set with a score of 10-6.

G-Singles faced a series of tough matches when Snieder scored 6-3 in her first set and 6-1 in her second set giving Leander another win. Higgins faced a close match when she scored 6-2 in her first set, 3-6 in her second set, and pulled off a win by scoring 10-8 in the final set. Lofton faced a tough match when she scored 6-0 in her first set and 6-2 in her second set with Eastview claiming the win. Fuller also faced a tough match with a score of 6-1 in the first set and 6-4 in the second set. Scanlon as well faced a tough match with a score of 6-0 in the first set and 6-3 in the second set. Peterson faced a tough match with a score of 6-0 in both of her sets.

B-Singles creamed Eastview when Orkun scored 4-6 in the first set, 6-1 in the second set, but fell in his final set with a score of 10-6. Rexrode claimed an easy victory when he scored 6-0 in his first set and 6-1 in his second set. Adcock faced a tough match when he scored 6-2 in his first set, 3-6 in his second set, but came away with the win with a score of 10-6 in the final set. Peckham also faced a tough match when he scored 3-6 in his first set, 6-3 in his second set, and came away with the win with a score of 10-5 in the final set. Farias also faced a close hard fought match when he scored 6-2 in the first set, 6-7 in the second set, but came away with another win for Leander with a score of 10-7 in the final set. Thomas faced an easy match when he scored 6-2 in both of his sets.

“I’ve done pretty good, I mean we’ve had a little bit of trouble in these past few matches,” said Rexrode. “But overall I think I’ve been doing pretty well.”

The varsity tennis team came away with a close win against the Patriots with a final score of 11-8 with the Lions claiming the victory.

“Team wise we’ve been doing adequately like our guys team is really good but our girls team is really young,” said Flesner.

The Lions faced off against Georgetown later in the week in what would result a hard fought loss.

G-Doubles was swept by the Eagles with Snieder and Higgins scoring 6-3 in their first set and 6-2 in their second set giving Georgetown the victory. Lofton and Flesner were also faced with a tough doubles match when they scored 6-0 in their first set and 6-2 in their second set. Fuller and Peterson were also swept by the Eagles when they scored 6-2 in their first set and 6-1 in their second set.

“We’re not the best but we haven’t been playing that long and it takes time to get better,” said Flesner about her doubles partner Lofton.

B-Doubles faced some close matches against the Eagles when Orkun and Rexrode scored 6-4 in their first set and 6-5 in their second set. Adcock and Peckham scored 6-3 in both of their sets. Farias and Thomas faced a hard fought match when they scored 6-2 in their first and second set but came off winning with a score of 11-9 in the final set.

MX-Doubles had a tough time against the Eagles when Balaji and Scanton scored 6-1 in the first set and 6-3 in the second set.

G-Singles was swept by the Eagles when Higgins scored 6-3 in her first set and 6-0 in her second set. Lofton also had a tough time when she scored 6-0 in the first set and 6-2 in the second set. Scanton scored 6-0 in the first set and 6-1 in the second set giving the Eagles a victory. Benefield scored 6-1 in her first set and 6-0 in her second set with Georgetown winning all the girls singles matches.

“I’m just playing tennis for fun,” said Flesner. “I enjoy tennis but the people are what makes it fun.”

B-Singles were able to get two victories against the Eagles with Rexrode scored 6-1 in the first set and 6-2 in the second set with the Lions getting the victory. Adcock scored 6-0 in both of his sets giving Leander another win.

In the final score, Leander did not have a good time against the Eagles with a score of 3-10 in favor of Georgetown.

“In terms of their game I think they’ve improved a lot, like results not so much,” said Rexrode. “But that goes without saying cause every team gets better, we are definitely getting better.”