The racquetwomen of Germantown Friends School started off the second half of January with a convincing victory over nearby Penn Charter. The Tigers hosted PC on their home courts at the Germantown Cricket Club, where a number of players for the Quakers also train.
Only sophomore Savannah Abernathy's 3-1 win for the visitors in the third flight prevented a GFS sweep, as the Tigers secured an 8-1 team victory to move back closer to the .500 for the season, at 2-3.
Incidences of players going in and out of COVID quarantine protocol have altered the make-up of many teams, and that was the …
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The racquetwomen of Germantown Friends School started off the second half of January with a convincing victory over nearby Penn Charter. The Tigers hosted PC on their home courts at the Germantown Cricket Club, where a number of players for the Quakers also train.
Only sophomore Savannah Abernathy's 3-1 win for the visitors in the third flight prevented a GFS sweep, as the Tigers secured an 8-1 team victory to move back closer to the .500 for the season, at 2-3.
Incidences of players going in and out of COVID quarantine protocol have altered the make-up of many teams, and that was the reason that Penn Charter was missing its regular number one and two players last Tuesday.
A GFS athlete who normally occupies the number eight spot was absent due to a schedule conflict.
At number one for GFS was senior Lindsay Burnham, who first began to play for the upper school varsity as an eighth-grader, and who will continue her squash career at Middlebury College. She logged an 11-5, 11-6, 11-2 decision over PC sophomore Frances Guenther, who normally plays in the third spot for the Quakers.
Germantown Friends also posted 3-0 wins at the other end of the ladder. In the seventh spot, Tigers freshman Claire Rigdon won 11-2, 11-2, 11-8 against Quakers eighth-grader Ana Buckley, while at number eight GFS freshman Taylor Dixon defeated visiting senior Maddy Brooks, 11-9, 11-5, 13-11.
In a "baum" battle in the ninth flight, freshman Elli Greenbaum of the home team took down Charter senior Sara Kestenbaum, 11-7, 11-7, 11-6.
Abernathy's win for Penn Charter in the third flight came in four games; she topped fellow sophomore Maddie Daniel, 9-11, 11-2, 11-5, 11-4. Her sister Audrey Abernathy, an eighth-grader, succumbed to GFS freshman Ame Hamrahi in the number six match, 11-5, 11-9, 11-13, 11-8.
Another ninth-grader for the Tigers, Persi Coes, won in the fourth flight over Quakers junior Sydney DelBello, 6-11, 11-2, 11-4, 11-5. GFS took the number two contest thanks to sophomore Michelle Park, with her 11-9, 8-11, 11-6, 13-11 effort against another 11th grader from Penn Charter, Lexi Bari.
The last match on the courts, the fifth flight, featured several extended games. Here 10th-grader Miya Moriuchi prevailed against PC junior Alex Glomb, 11-7, 18-16, 10-12, 11-8.
