Providence wins 2 and loses 1 at Columbus North Invitational

On Saturday the team played three matches at the Columbus Invitational. The first match of the day was against the very strong host team and Providence lost 5-0. Each match was lost in straight sets. While the loss was tough, with many long rallies by all the players, the scores in general were very lopsided.

For this match Nick Primavrera played singles and our normal number 2 doubles team played one and Drew Thomas and Daniel Becht teamed together at second doubles. Columbus North won each of their three matches and the Pioneers had only one loss.

Pete Andres	Lost 6-0, 6-0
Travis Cunningham	Lost 6-1, 6-0
Nick Primavera	Lost 6-1, 6-1
Brenden Popson & Nick Finn	Lost 6-2, 6-1
Drew Thomas & Daniel Becht	Lost 6-2, 6-3

 

The remainder of the day went much better for Pioneers

In the second match of the day the team faced Martinsville. The match was won 3-2 with wins at first and second singles and second doubles. In a tournament like this a third set is played as a super tiebreaker (tiebreaker to 10).

Pete Andres won a fairly easy match at 6-2, 6-1.

Travis Cunningham came back after only his second loss of the season and won 6-2, 6-2.

Nick Primavrera lost 0-6, 2-6.

Number one doubles lost in the third set tiebreaker having won the first set 6-3 before losing the second set 4-6. They lost the tiebreaker 6-10.

At number two doubles Drew and Daniel won in a third set tiebreaker; they won the first 6-3 and dropped the second set 0-6, they won a very close tiebreaker 14-12.

In the third pairing of the day against Oldenburg Academy the Pioneers recorded their first 5-0 win of the season. Again two of the matches went to a third set tiebreaker.

Pete Andres was pushed hard in the second set but won 6-3, 7-5.

Travis won the first set 6-3 and lost the second 4-6 he won a long tough tiebreaker at 14-12. This was a very hard fought match.

Nick Primavrera recorded his first singles victory as a varsity tennis player (Nick is normally a doubles player); he won the first set 6-4 but lost the second 2-6. He won the tiebreaker 11-9.

First doubles dominated the Oldenburg Academy team 6-2, 6-0.

The second doubles tandem won 6-1, 6-2.

Drew won his first 2 varsity matches of his young career today. Two of our managers traveled with the team and were a great help to the players and coaches. Also in attendance was former girl's player Rachel Gish (a student at IU). As usually we had great parent support, good food and drink under our standard blue tents.