Wild win vs Dysart/Baker, 3-2

So you say you hate lobs? If you weren't playing tonight, then you're lucky. Thousands of lobs were lobbed during the course of this match, which we won by the skin of our teeth, 3-2. It was enough to give you an ulcer ... or put you to sleep. Here are the scores (note: all 3 doubles matches went to the 3rd set tiebreaker!!!):

1D) Laura & Trish beat Sue Basch and Connie Rogers, 4-6 7-6 (5) 1-0 (8)

2D) Kelly & Karen beat Paulette Barnett and Janice Lemoine in the marathon of the evening, 6-3 6-7 (6) 1-0 (1)

3D) Meghan & Donna had a gutwrenching loss to Joyce Matoska and Bonnie Thomas, 6-3 4-6 0-1 (8)

1S) Mary had the only breeze-through of the match, defeating Michelle Holliday 6-1 6-1

2S) Sara lost to Ellen Lichtman 3-6 3-6

What have we learned here? Well, for one, do not underestimate craftiness (and effective lobbing). A number of people on this team were bumped up to 3.5 after their 3.0 senior team (captained by Marcia Dysart) WON nationals last year. Another thing? It's always good to win, no matter how ugly ;-)

Next match vs. Duffy/Amoyal (a team much more like us) this Saturday, 9 am at Bryn Mawr. Hopefully weather will cooperate. If you are playing, try to get there by 8:30 for warmup, and let's go for the W against a team we've been trading places with in the rankings all season long. This is the last match of our first round; if we win, we'll come out of the first half of the season with a very good 5-3 record. If not, we'll have a very respectable 4-4 record. We've now won twice as many matches as we did all of last season, so pat yourselves on the back!

PS: For those of you keeping track of these things, McMillan BEAT Zylberberg tonight (check Tennislink for the amazing scores). How the mighty have fallen!!!