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B2 THE CHOWAN HERALD, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2019 Sports Briefs STAFF REPORTS Volleyball season ends with loss to Manteo The John A. Holmes volleyball team’s (6-15) season ended on Oct. 21 after losing to Manteo, 25-22, 25-14, 29-27, in the quarterfinal round of the Albemarle Athletic Con ference tournament to SPEAR Continued from Bl good job with us this year,” she said. “She pushed me and our team to get better everyday at practice. She always would say ‘Don’t play not to lose — play to win!’ And we did. We won the conference season and tournament.” It’s been a whirlwind of a season — Albermarle Ath letic Conference and tour ney champs — then came regionals and the state meet. “I am very proud of my teammates — the whole team did so well this year,” Spear said. “I was excited to get to play at regionals in Greenville and felt like I played some of my best tennis all year. Then came the state tournament in Cary which was an amaz ing experience.” Most assuredly, Aces like Spear will have a se quel next season. “I hope to keep getting better and have a chance to compete at states again next year,” she said. “I am thankful for everyone in our commu nity who wished me luck and supported me. Go Aces!” Take a step back to Tuesday (Oct. 23) when the Aces were playing in the eastern Regionals. “Unfortunately we fell short, in Washington against Research Trian gle,” May said after the meet. “We lost 5-4 in a heartbreaking match as the Redskins (5-11) Oct. 21 at Manteo High School. This week’s games Wednesday, Oct. 30 HIGH SCHOOL Boys Soccer John A. Holmes at Perquimans, 6 p.m. Friday, Nov. 1 HIGH SCHOOL Football Manteo at John A. Holmes, 7:30 p.m. both teams hustled to get the matches in before the rain moved in.” Aces were one game from the win and moving to Round 3 of Duals Team but fell short in fighting off their oppo nents in the doubles match. “Our tennis season is over but we can still hold our heads up high as we prevailed through a sea son marked with obsta cles that we had no con trol over.,” May said. “The girls were pretty re silient. And, we still have Sydney Spear going to the state tournament this weekend in singles play. What a great way to end a season, at the state tournament.” Aces led the match 4-2 after singles play with wins at No. 2, No. 3, No. 5 and No. 6 singles. Spear defeated Melissa Tobias 6-1, 6-2, Carson Ray defeated Grace Ulanch 6-4, 6-3, Olivia Hare had a nail-biter win over Morgan Shadoan 6- 7 (3-7), 6-4, 10-3 as did Trinity Copeland with a win over Julia Shough 6- 1, 4-6, 6-3. Other singles scores were Sabrina Grewel over Lilly Bunch 6-0, 6-0 and Katie Leonard over Bailey Rinehart 6-2, 2-6, 3-6. Doubles scores were Grewel/Tobias over Bunch/Spear 8-4, Ulanch/ Leonard over Ray/Rine- hart 9-7 and Shadoan/ Shough over Hare/ Copeland 8-5. WARRIORS Continued from Bl player and the transition has been phenomenal. She would come to the boys practices in the spring and loved a chal lenge. One of her goals was to win a state champi onship and she came very close.” Lawrence had played the Spartans before earlier in the season in the Alice Cobb Tournament. The team starts five seniors which have a lot of match experience, the coaches noted, so the Warriors had to be at their best from the outset. Cobb said, “Kerr-Vance has had a good tennis pro gram for many years and this year they had a vet eran team with five se niors. We knew going in it would take our best tennis to knock them off and pull out a win.” Corbett added, “We were hoping to win at least two and possibly three of the doubles matches. That would have given us the edge going into the singles matches.” As it stood, Lawrence was able to win one dou bles match. The No. 3 team of Perris Clayton and Annie Hayes Trowell outlasted K-V’s duo of Leah Moseley and Austin Abbott 9-7. “Perris and Annie Hayes have been a strong doubles team all season,” Corbett said. “They work well together with their communication and court coverage. The match was close from the beginning. Their first serves are strong and set up volleys that were eas ily put away. Their win boosted our confidence and calmed everyone’s nerves.” Kerr-Vance gained con trol of the doubles with wins at No. 1 (Caroline Williams and Edie Echols 8-4 over Gardner and Emma Cobb) and No. 2 (Lauren Moseley and Lorena Negron 8-3 over Isabella Spruill and Kuschel). “We were hoping for two out of three in dou bles play, which would have given us a legitimate shot of reaching five points and securing a vic tory,” Cobb said. Corbett added, “It’s a big confidence booster to be up after doubles are played. We weren’t as consistent as we needed to be and committed more errors than we usu ally do.” Corbett said the War riors justifiably were ner vous, as it was their first time in the state finals. “Sometimes it’s hard to relax and just play your best tennis when you are on center stage. Kerr- Vance made errors also, but we didn’t capitalize on them,” she said. The Spartans sealed the match with wins at No. 1 singles (Williams 6- 1, 6-0 over Emma Cobb), No. 2 singles and No. 3 singles (Negron over Spruill 6-1,6-4). “We remained confi dent and played with great effort; we just fell short,” Cobb said. To get to the finals, Lawrence had to over come fellow Tarheel In dependent Conference ri val Ridgecroft School in the semifinals on Wednes day (Oct. 23). The teams split during the season with both results ending 54, but LA won this time 7-2. Again, doubles was crucial, and the Warriors were able to take all three matches with the Rams. The No. 1 team of Cobb and Gardner rallied for their first win over Mattie Grace Gilliam and Clare Place, 9-7. The No. 2 duo of Spruill and Kuschel got behind early in their match but were able to rally and de feat Belle Turner and Gra cie Boswell, and Lawrence completed the sweep with a No. 3 dou bles triumph from Clay ton and Trowell, 8-1 over Camille Pierce and Eliza beth Brown. “Winning all three doubles was the key in this match,” Corbett said. “Emma and Hailey Hope had not been Mattie Grace and Claire in previ ous matches with Ridge- croft. “They had a slow start but were determined to stay in the match,” Cor bett added. “They began to play more aggressively and you could feel the momentum building for them. I believe it was one of the best matches they played together this year.” As for Spruill and Kuschel, being behind early didn’t faze them. “They tied the score to force a tiebreaker, stayed calm and narrowly won it,” Corbett said. “They have played well together this season. They bonded as a team. Lisa (a German exchange student) has been a wonderful asset to our team.” The Warriors lost the top two singles matches (Gilliam edged Cobb 6-2, 7-6 (7-5), while Belle Turner stopped Gardner 6-2, 6-2), but Lawrence’s strength all season has been seeds three through six, and they came through again. No. 3 Spruill defeated Place 6-3, 64; No. 4 Clay ton won 6-4, 4-6, 12-10 over Boswell; No. 5 Trow ell won 6-1, 6-0 over Pierce and No. 6 Kuschel emerged victorious over Reagan Edwards 6-1, 6-1 to seal the semifinals win. “Our No. 1 and No. 2 doubles teams made out standing comebacks with a lot of determination and great play,” Cobb said. Coming up short against Northeast Academy in last year’s state semifinals was a motivating factor this sea son, the coaches ac knowledged. “Losing to Northeast last year was devastat ing,” Corbett said. “We knew we had to play hard throughout the season to get a high seed in the state playoffs, and we were thrilled with the No. 2 seed.” Reflecting on the sea son, Corbett and Cobb said the loss to Kerr- Vance was disappointing but that the thrill of mak ing it to the finals this year knowing no other LA team had previously done so was exciting. Cobb noted, “The rea son we made the state fi nals is we are a solid team from top to bottom and we had great leaders at the top in Emma and Hai ley Hope. All of our seeds plus our exhibition play ers (Bryson Perry and Lucy Spruill) played great all year. They made this a tennis season to remem ber forever.” “The most important thing was letting the girls know how much we love them and how proud we are of them,” Corbett added. “They played their best and that’s all we asked them to do. They never gave up. They are a very special group of girls and are a joy to coach.” The coaches also lauded the support of the parents, grandparents and faithful fans who “were so dedicated and followed us everywhere,” Corbett said. And sometime in the near future, a new green and gold banner will be raised in the LA gym. “We are excited to get a tennis banner to hang in our gymnasium,” Corbett said. “It’s our first banner. What an accomplishment for our girls. “Thomas and I knew if the girls worked hard that it could be a great season, and they didn’t disappoint us.” Cobb closed, “We are all excited about a new banner that will be hang ing in our gym, mainly because we worked ex tremely hard for this. The loss to Northeast last year motivated us to get better this year and we did. Our message af ter the loss to Kerr- Vance was to keep your heads up, be proud of your accomplishments and next year, let’s come back and win it all.” SOCCER Continued from Bl Manteo match DiMartino gave solid praise to the boys from the Lost Colony. “I’m impressed by how much Manteo has im proved in the course of the season,” he said. They’ve become a team of real quality and a worthy repre sentative of our region. They waxed Camden 7-0 last week. And Monday’s match convinces me that that result isn’t a fluke. Ralph Cleaver, Manteo’s coach, told me in early September that they were young and were making mistakes of inexperience; but that they’d pull it all to gether in the end. And in deed they have. They hum bled us 5-0 tonight and the score accurately repre sents the reality of the match.” DiMartino said to pro duce soccer players of Man teo’s caliber—a team of this caliber — you have to have what Manteo and First X-COUNTRY Continued from Bl in Sth place (20:01) fol lowed by Logan Garman in eighth place (21:09) then A.J. Schwarm in 12th place (21:39) then Jacob Brooks at 14th place (21:49) and Lukas Berry at 20th (22:41) along with Ethan Dale at 26th place (26:18). Camden won the boys meet, followed by Manteo, then Edenton and Perquimans in fourth place. Gates County sent a few runners, but not enough to field a team. Per the girls’ side of the ledger, Itary Lopez-Bonilla led the Aces with a fifth place finish (23:09); fol lowed by Amanda Turner at 13th place (26:53) then Calle Jenkins at 22nd Flight have: Year-round soc cer players bred in a soccer culture, playing club soccer against quality competition throughout the year. The quickness of decision mak ing, the easy facility in the subtleties of the game, the recognition of patterns, is not available to guys who come to soccer as a second sport or late in adolescence, or whose experience of the game is rec level play or small ball with the guys. “In Edenton, we’ve ac complished what is possible with the athletes we have. And, believe me, we have some very gifted athletes,” DiMartino said. “We’ve built a very good LA public school team. But if we’re ever to threaten Manteo and First Flight, we will, in my opinion, need to resurrect our local Chowan Youth Soccer Club.” DiMartino said some take offense at Manteo’s superla tive play and their raucous, partisan crowd. “Indeed, Manteo is a tough venue, in which, over the years, more than one of our players have become (31:11) and Michelle Carpiette at 24th (33:52) along with Jamie Hamm at 25th (34:07). Camden won the boys meet, followed by Manteo, then Edenton with Perquimans in fourth place and Gates in fifth incensed and acted out,” he said. “But, for me, this is a joy of soccer—to play qual ity competition in a loud, electric atmosphere.” Senior Night When Edenton hosted Gates County (Oct 23) — Senior Night — the Aces didn’t need Snoopy to shoot down the Red Barons—3-0. “This was an emotional evening for our seniors,” DiMartino said. “It was an emotional evening for me, as well These are boys who came in with me — were freshmen in my first year as head coach. They bought into the vision right away and together we’ve built a strong and successful pro gram It will be a bittersweet moment for me to watch them walk off into the evening when the season’s final whistle blows.” Fieldside, the Aces man aged Wednesday’s match comfortably, despite some undisciplined play in the ex citement of the festivities, DiMartino said. “We started all our seniors in both halves; and every body on our 25-man roster place. Based on the latest con ference standings, Aces’ boys’ team is tied with Perquimans’ Pirates for third, while the girls’ team has leaped ahead of the Pi rates to a strong third- ptece showing. played,” he said. “We se cured three goals in the first half and few of our starters played more than a few min utes in the second stanza Our reserves handled mat ters capably and we went home winners, with the final tally Los Lobos de Edenton 3-0 Gates County.” Pasquotank win That’s not the only win that the Aces posted last week. Edenton defeated Pasquotank up in Elizabeth City — 5-1. The match’s point spread shows how much the blue and gold have improved this season. “We’d last met Pasquotank in August, in our opening match of the season, when we had to score late to scratch out a 2- 2 draw,” DiMartino said. “Things were different this time as we scored twice in the first ten minutes. The first goal came from an effi cient ball by Jonathan Sali nas through Pasquotank’s back line to on-running Marsel Zidan, who with pa tience slotted it home from short range. The second tally was from a Jovanni PHOTO COURTESY LAURIE BROOKS Aces’ cross country team poses with Su perintendent Rob Jackson (left) before competing in the Albemarle Athletic Con ference Championship recentlyat Merchants Mill Pond in Gates County. Meadows and Garman are second team All-Con ference. Perquimans’ Jay- den White is AAC Runner of the Year. Gates’ Jacob Euler is at first team All- Conference. Lopez-Bonilla is second team All-Conference. Plata corner kick, finished by Maisel.” Pasquotank responded to these injuries forcefully and at about the 30th minute pulled one back when speedy Jalen Haist gained space to send a fantastic left- footed cross from deep in the comer, emphatically fin ished first touch by Chan dler Walton. The remainder of the half was played evenly, with aggressive de fense and energetic offen sive sequences from both teams, but no change in the score line. The second half played out differently. From the first whistle of the stanza, the Royal and Gold took command. At about the 46th minute Zidan out-maneu vered his mark deep in the right corner and lofted a lovely cross that was first- touched home from seven yards by freshman Loghan Wagner. Zidan found the mark “We always welcome new patients.” COMFORT • QUALITY ♦ EXPERIENCE Modern Dentistry in o relaxed environment for the entire family. ALBEMARLE DENTAL ASSOCIATES ^Maland Cosmetic ^entistly again at about 54 minutes with a venomous dipping free kick from 28 yards. Then, at about 59 min utes, Zidan beat two defend ers down the right flank and was taken down in the box to earn a penalty kick, which he converted to set the score at Los Lobos de Eden ton 5-1 Pasquotank. For the remainder of the match the Aces dominated possession. The home team, fighting almost entirely off the ropes, could do little more than cover up before the onslaught of Aces pres sure. Freshman Daniel Em- manizer subbed in for Zidan at forward and created dan gerous chances. Johathan “The Cobra” Bermudez managed the midfield with incisive passes and defini tive defense. “Our backfield swung the ball purposefully and shifted the point of attack. Los Lo bos de Edenton won going away,” DiMartino said. DR. CHRIS KOPPELMAN, DOS DR. ETHAN NELSON, bDS 482-5131 103 Mark Dr. Edenton, NC (behind Chowan Hospital) -j
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