Recap of the Season at Mid-point

With approximately half our matches completed, we stand at three wins and three loses and one tournament championship. The team has defeated Bedford North Lawrence (at the time district ranked), Jennings County and Evansville Central and lost to state ranked Greenwood, district ranked Jeffersonville and Paoli.

We have seen outstanding performances from Jacqueline Hoolkamp at first singles and our number one doubles team of Megan Jakoby and Kelsey Haas. Alison Primavera had a big win for us againist Evansville Central, Kristin Simms and Sarah Federspiel had a big win againist Bedford North Lawrence, Abbie Shelton had a big win againist Jennings County and did a good job at Jasper Tournament. Maggie Bremmer has played well in limited action so far this season.

Our JV players are steadily improving. Amanda and Karoline have won the most matches, but these young ladies are getting better each match and practice.

We have two additional tournaments on the schedule and several dual matches with strong teams.

Providence ties New Albany and Borden for the New Albany Invitational Title

Picture: Scott, Jacqueline, Kelsey, Magan, Abbie, Alison, Sarah, Kristin, Vince

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Team Outlook

The Providence Girls Tennis Team returns three all District Players in Senior Megan Jakoby and Juniors Kelsey Haas and Jacqueline Hollkamp which will be the nucleus of six returning letter winners. Letter winners in addition to the previous mentioned players include Juniors Abbie Shelton, Alison Primavera and Senior Maggie Bremmer. Additional varsity players will include Seniors Sarah Federspiel, Kristin Simms and Junior Amanda Agtuca.

We have continued to upgrade our schedule with Indiana teams that have either outstanding teams or individuals, new to the schedule this year is Paoli. Jeffersonville, Bedford North Lawrence, Silver Creek and New Albany are some of the better teams on our schedules as well as attending the Jasper Invitational and the Delphi Invitational. Providence will host once again the Providence Invitational with Southwestern, Christian Academy of Indiana, Gibson Southern and Corydon in the field and attend the New Albany Invitational.

With a solid core of all district players we expect outstanding accomplishments from these three individuals and hope they will be able to repeat these achievements. As a team we have an upper classman dominated team and we expect some of our journeymen players to really shine and have an outstanding season. Depending on how these players perform will directly affect our overall record for the season. If the practice and conditioning efforts are any indications of this team then we should be in good shape, as this is probably the best conditioned team in my seven years at Providence as four as head coach and three as assistant coach for the girls tennis program.

Congradulations Kara, Kelsey, Jacqueline and Megan

I found out on Monday night that Kara was honorable mention Academic All State. We also learned that Kelsey and Megan were honorable mention all-state in doubles and Jacqueline received the same honor in singles.

In three years we have had 4 honorable mentions Academic All State and seven playing positions that were honorable mention All State and also All District.

Jacqueline, Kelsey and Megan receive All-District

Megan Jakoby	Kelsey Haas

At the District 5 (southern Indiana) coaches meeting on June 1, three Providence returning players received all district recognition. Junior to be, Jacqueline Hollkamp was one of the 16 players recognized in singles, she finished the season with a 15 and 7 record, she won the New Albany Invitational and was second at the Delphi Invitational. Top wins include New Albany twice and Corydon Central (Uhl is still in the individual state tournament). The number one doubles team of Senior to be Megan Jakoby and Junior to be Kelsey Haas was one of eight doubles (actual 9 due to a tie) teams selected for the district honor. Haas was 14 and 4 in doubles, Jakoby was 9 and 3 in doubles, and together they were 7 and 2. There losses were to Jeffrsonville (still in the individual state tournament) in a three set, 3 hour and 30 minute match and to Greenwood (KY) in three sets, 3 hour plus match. Greenwood was a final 8 team in Kentucky. They won the Delphi Invitational and Haas was a member of the team (with Hillary Ernstberger) that won the New Albany Invitational. Top wins for the team were over Guerin and Silver Creek. They bring a strong foundation for the 2012 season, which will return six letter winners.

Jacqueline Hollkamp

Pioneer's finish second at Delphi Invitational

The tournament started nearly 2 hours late because of rain, but the weekend provided to be sucessful for the Lady Pioneers. The team finished second to Guerin out of eight schools.
The Pioneers won first place in number one doubles. Finished 2nd at number 1 singles and lost in the semi-finals at number 2 doubles.
Megan and Kelsey played very well and beat a very good doubles team in the semifinals from Guerin, they then defeated a team from Rensselaer to win the championship. They are pictured above with their medals.
Jacqueline lost in the finals to an excellent player also from Guerin. She had two very good wins to reach the final.
Hilary and Kara won there first match againist the host school before losing in the semifinals to another team from Guerin.
Freshman Tori lost her first match in a three set match with the last set being a super tie breaker . She then came back to defeat a player from Seeger, before losing to a player from the host school.
The tournament was 200 miles away, but it allowed the team to see teams outside of their region and they preformed very well in the 8 team tournament.

Providence defeated Clarksville 3 - 1

On an afternoon that threatened rain, all but one match was completed.

At 1st Singles Jacqueline Hollkamp degeated Jessica Riley 6-1, 6-1.
At 2nd Singles Megan Jakoby was leading 6-2, 4-3 when rain forced an end to the match.
At 3rd Singles Tori Bonfantino lost to Chloe Stephens 6-3, 6-3.
1st doubles of Senior Hillary Ernstberger and Soph. Kelsey Haas won over Baily Duggan and Sharon Garcia 6-0, 6-2.
2nd doubles won by default.

Jacqueline played very well today and established control from the beginnning. Megan was playing a very good match until the rain forced an end to the match. 1st doubles dominated most of the match and the games they lost were due to unforced errors in general.

Tennis Results

Providence Girls Tennis Team has played three dual matches winning two and losing the other one 2 to 3 to Bedford North Lawrenced (ranked at the time). They came in second at the New Albany Invitational losing by four points to the host schools. Both schools had the same record, Providence had 2 firsts (undefeated) a second (lost int he finals) and two players/teams who lost in the first round and won the remaining matches (one lost each). New Albany had the same records but their two losses came in the second round instead, therefore they finished third and our girls finished 4th. Jacqueline Hollkamp won at first singles as did the number 1 doubles team of Hillary Ernstberger and Kelsey Haas. Megan Jakoby finished second at number 2 singles. Tori Bongantino finshed 4th at number 3 singles and number 2 doubles finished 4th, composed of Kara Garcia and Maggie Bremmer. During the Jasper tournament most players got in two matches before the rain struck. We had some very good performances but no brackets completed all their matches...thus no final standings.

The Pioneers will host their own tournament on April 29th at Community Park in New Albany. The tournament will feature teams from Christian Academy of Indiana, Southwestern, Gibson Southern, Corydon and Providence. Matches begin at 10 AM.

The Junior Varsity team played well at Jasper and defeated South Central in a dual match.

Week 2 of 2011 Season

This week promises to be a very busy one for Providence Girl Tennis Team. They will play a total of 8 matches, which is 1/3 of their schedule. On Monday 4/11 they will play Jeffersonville at JHS at 4:00 PM On Tuesday 4/12 they will complete the New Albany Invitational which was rained out. They won their first match in 1st singles 6-0, 6-0 and were leading in three other matches when the rain washed out the rest of the day. 2nd singles received a bye in the first round. On Wednesday 4/13 they travel to Jennings County, this is the first match between these two schools. On Friday 4/15 they will play the opening round of the Jasper Invitational. On Saturday 4/16 the varsity will play the final two rounds and JV will play the entire tournament. The team is currently 0 and 1 with a 3-2 loss to Bedford North Lawrence. The team won at 1st and 2nd singles.

Providence Sweeps Borden 5-0

After dropping three close matches at the Columbus North Invitational the team got back on the winning way defeating Borden at Borden 5-0 and the JV's won 3-1.

Pete won in a convincing fashion 6-0, 6-2 at first singles.

Brenden won second singles 6-1, 6-3; he played one of his better matches in recent weeks, with much better ball control.

Nolan started slow in his match but dominated in the second set to win 6-4, 6-1 at 3^rd singles.

Daniel and Nick started quickly winning the first set 6-0, but had several unforced errors in the second set after taking a big lead; the second set was won in a tie breaker with a score of 7-2 for the win at first doubles.

Joe and Andrew played second doubles and started slow with numerous bad hits, before they got their hitting together as well as their play, they won 6-4, 6-0.

JV Matches:

Thomas Boly played first JV singles and won 8-1; Louis Garcia played second singles for the JV and won 8-1 also.

In doubles Derek Benebig and Weston Spaulding won 1^st doubles 8-0; the lone lost for the Pioneers was at second doubles which lost 8-5 played by Brock Hayden and Justin Hughes.