Trenton tennis finishes hectic week with Benton Invitational

The Trenton Lady Bulldog tennis team finished in fourth place at Friday’s Benton Invitational in St. Joseph, defeating Benton in the quarterfinals, before falling to St. Pius in the semifinal round, and Maryville in the third place match.

Friday’s performance followed Thursday’s head-to-head sweep of the Cameron Lady Dragons, with Trenton winning by a final score of 9-0.

Against Benton in Friday’s quarterfinal, Trenton struggled in singles, but was strong in doubles, going 0-2 in singles play, but 3-0 in doubles.  Mallory Sole and Alaina Overton won their doubles match 8-2 (over Johnson and Buntin), with Astrid Soriano and Lydia Leininger downing Boyer and Allen 8-0, and Harley Hall and Jillian Voorhies doubling up Woodson and Shiflett 8-4.

In singles, Benton’s Horn beat Trenton’s Kennedy 8-1, with Burright of the Cardinals beating Faith Lee of the Bulldogs 8-0.

In the semifinals against St. Pius X, Trenton lost 5-0, with Strahm beating Kennedy 8-0, Kaur over Lee 8-2, Dunn and Pernice over Sole and Overton, 8-1, Griffin and Vagner over Soriano and Leininger 8-2, while Holum and Mussorici beat Hall and Voorhies 8-2.

Against Maryville, the Spoofhounds took the 5-1 win over THS.  Trenton’s win came 8-5 for Soriano and Leininger 8-5 over Pace and Haughey.  Maryville’s doubles wins were Skidmore and Cullin by 9-8 score (7-5 tiebreak) over Sole and Overton, and Schommer and Burns by 8-3 final over Hall and Voorhies.  Groumoutis beat Kennedy 8-0 and Galapin was an 8-3 winner over Lee in singles play.

In the Thursday afternoon 9-0 sweep at Cameron, here are the finals:

SINGLES: 

Mallory Sole over Lena Oberwalleney 8-1

Astrid Soriano over Cali Teel 8-0

Alaina Overton over Harley Burton 8-1

Lydia Leininger over Jeeya Patel 8-0

Harley Hall over Autumn Dotson 8-0

Jessika Kennedy over Briahna Dorton 8-1

DOUBLES: 

Sole/Overton over Oberwalleney/Teel 8-1

Soriano/Leininger over Burton/Patel 8-0

Hall/Kennedy over Dotson/Dorton 8-0

JV SINGLES: 

Matty Shultz over Sidney Allen 6-1

JV DOUBLES: 

Jillian Voorhies/Faith Lee over Sidney Allen/Mercedes Locke 8-0

Kaytee Wright/Savannah Elrod win 6-0