Posted: Sep 18, 2024
The UMA women's tennis traveled north to play against the power house Husson women's tennis team on Wednesday 9/18 at the Bangor High School tennis courts. Husson women's tennis is always tough competition every year as Head Coach Josh Warren does a great job of fielding a competitive team year in and year out for the lady Eagles. A little short handed with only 5 players, the UMA women's team had to default the 3rd doubles spot, but had competitive matches at 1st doubles and 2nd doubles. The 1st doubles team of Allie Young and Hannah Roberts took on Husson's 1st doubles team of Julia Barber and Anah Albert. Off to a slow start, Allie and Hannah found themselves down early and then battled back to within 1 game of tying up the score before Julia and Anah pulled away to win the match 8-4.
The 2nd doubles team consisting of Hayden Hoague and Orlane Bognini also struggling early in the match found a nice rhythm late in the set and were able to take a few more games before losing the match 3-8 to Husson's 2nd doubles team of Emily Doten and Joey Ramsdell. With the win at 2nd doubles, and the default at 3rd doubles, Husson found themselves up 3-0 for the overall match lead heading into the singles matches.
In the singles matches which only was a format of playing 1 set to 6 games, Hayden Hoague took on Olivia Christensen at the 5th singles position. Hayden found a nice serving rhythm early in the match and was consistent in her ground strokes to be able to pull out a nice win for the Moose defeating her opponent 6-2. With Hayden's win at singles the Moose closed the gap 3-1 now against Husson.
In the singles matches which only was a format of playing 1 set to 6 games, Hayden Hoague took on Olivia Christensen at the 5th singles position. Hayden found a nice serving rhythm early in the match and was consistent in her ground strokes to be able to pull out a nice win for the Moose defeating her opponent 6-2. With Hayden's win at singles the Moose closed the gap 3-1 now against Husson.
At the 4th singles, UMA's Shaelyn Carter played against Husson's Mallory Beaulieu. With Sahelyn playing some of her most consistent and best tennis late in the match, it just wasn't quite enough to make a comeback from down early, and ended up losing the match 3-6. For the 3rd singles, it was Orlane Bognini facing Anah Albert. Although Orlane was serving well and getting to a lot of balls, trying to extend the rallies as much as possible and using her athleticism to get to some tough shots, the power of Anah Albert's game was too much as she defeated Orlane 6-0.
Allie Young once again playing in the 2nd singles spot for UMA against Olivia Chandler from Husson, found herself in a competitive match that was back and forth. Allie got off to a comfortable 3-1 lead only to see that lead shrink and become closer. But once Allie was at 4-3, she found another level in her game and energy to make one last push to be able to win the match at 2nd singles for UMA defeating Chandler 6-4. Then playing in the 1st singles spot for UMA, it was Hannah Roberts versus Husson's Emily Doten. A very tight match for the whole set, Hannah found herself keeping it close the whole way down early 1-2, then 2-3, then 3-4, then 4-5. It was a great battle between these two fantastic tennis players, with long rallies and hustling for tough shots, in the end it was Emily Doten able to pull out the victory 6-4.
Although UMA overall lost the match to Husson 2-6, in just their 2nd match of the season, against a very tough opponent, UMA showed tremendous improvement already from their last match. The next match for UMA will be a home match at KVTA (Kennebec Valley Tennis Association) located in Augusta, Maine on Wednesday October 2nd at 3pm.
Here are the match results below:
Husson defeated UMA 6-2
1st doubles: UMA: Allie Young and Hannah Roberts lost to Husson:Julia Barber and Anah Albert (4-8)
2nd doubles: UMA: Hayden Hoague and Orlane Bognini lost to Husson: Emily Doten and Joey Ramsdell (3-8)
3rd doubles: UMA: defaulted vs Husson: (0-1)
1st singles: UMA: Hannah Roberts lost to Husson: Emily Doten (4-6)
2nd singles: UMA: Allie Young defeated Husson: Olivia Chandler (6-4)
3rd singles: UMA: Orlane Bognini lost to Husson: Anah Albert (0-6)
4th singles: UMA: Shaelyn Carter lost to Husson: Mallory Beaulieu (3-6)
5th singles: UMA: Hayden Hoague defeated Husson: Olivia Christensen (6-2)
6th singles: UMA: defaulted vs Husson (0-1)