MP tennis teams fall to Fairfield

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News

The Mt. Pleasant tennis teams made it close against Fairfield on Thursday, but both teams fell in a couple of tight matchups.

The boys? team hosted the Trojans and fell, 5-4, and the girls? team dropped their game 6-3 on the road.

In the boys? meet, Ben Zihlman and Ethan Weber continued their success at the top.

Zihlman took down top Trojan Navin Martin, 8-2, in the No. 1 singles match. Weber shut down Gannon Courtright, 8-0, in the No. 2 match.

In their doubles match against Martin and Jarod Willmon, Zihlman and Weber picked up another win for Mt. Pleasant, 8-2.

Corbin Broeker made the most of his first varsity singles match, taking down Willmon 8-6, which gave the Panthers four points.

Mt. Pleasant couldn?t get any other wins, however, despite a handful of close matches.

Joey Holtkamp lost the No. 3 game, 8-6, to Elijah Parr. Elijah Plooster lost 9-7 to Logan Williams in the No. 4 match, and Nick Sandeen fell, 8-3, to Brandon Winkelman in the No. 5 match.

Holtkamp and Broeker lost to Courtright and Parr, 8-3, in the No. 2 doubles match. Plooster and Sandeen dropped a close one, 8-6, to Williams and Winkelman in the No. 3 doubles match.

The MP girls won two singles matches and one doubles match. Quin Whaley took the No. 3 singles match, 8-4, against Fairfield?s Cami Schaefer for the Panthers? highest singles win of the day.

Sheyanne Walter picked up an 8-4 win in the No. 6 singles match. The doubles team of Thuan Tran and Whaley won, 8-4, over Dayna Price and Schaefer.

Meagan Sutherland fell, 8-0, in the No. 1 singles match against Anatta Charoenkul. Tran lost the No. 2 singles match, 8-6, to Price.

Kiley Sourwine fell, 8-2, in the No. 4 singles match against Hermala Gebremariam. Erin Zihlman dropped a close one, 9-7, to Anna Beasley in the No. 5 singles match.

In girls? doubles, Sutherland and Sourwine fell, 8-3, to Charoenkul and Gabremariam, and Zihlman and Walter dropped one, 8-5, to Beasley and Pool.

The Panther girls? team will be back in action on Tuesday, April 18, at 4:30 p.m., when they host Burlington Notre Dame.

The boys will have a longer break before a rematch against Fairfield on Thursday, April 20, at 4:30 p.m.