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Yet one more: Girl Lions hope to cap undefeated season with state tennis title – Yahoo Information

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Yet one more: Girl Lions hope to cap undefeated season with state tennis title – Yahoo Information

Could 12—A yr in the past, a then-undefeated Christian Heritage College women tennis workforce fell within the state’s Ultimate 4 to eventual state champion Wesleyan.

This yr’s revenge tour is one match away from ending in a state title.

An undefeated Girl Lion workforce is again once more, this time reaching the state championship match. Christian Heritage performs Johnson County at 9 a.m. Saturday on the Rome Tennis Heart at Berry Faculty within the Class A Division II state championship spherical.

“Final yr, we acquired to the Ultimate 4, and we misplaced to the workforce that went on to win the state championship, so in our thoughts we had been the second greatest workforce within the state and we knew we had an opportunity this yr,” mentioned Christian Heritage coach Garrick Sanford. “Getting somewhat style of it helped. Final yr we had been undefeated going into the Ultimate 4 as effectively. That have helped for certain, even our freshman that performs this yr acquired to observe with us final yr.”

The Girl Lions have mowed via the competitors within the playoffs up to now, not giving up a loss on a single particular person line. A 3-0 victory over Lake Oconee Academy within the Ultimate 4 pushed Christian Heritage into the championship spherical for the primary time at school historical past.

“We’ve an awesome group of seniors that went via this final yr, and so they needed to go additional,” Sanford mentioned.

Raigh Langston, Macy Mashburn, Monica Morales and Katie Rose Stanfield are the Girl Lion seniors.

Langston, Mashburn and Stanfield type the three singles traces, and Morales normally competes in doubles with freshman Reese Bailey and sophomores Molly Geil and Riley Geil.

After the boys soccer workforce at Christian Heritage received its first state championship in GHSA competitors final week, the ladies tennis workforce hopes to maintain the profitable going on the faculty.

“We simply noticed the soccer workforce win the state championship, so if we are able to deliver two championships again to Christian Heritage that may be particular,” Sanford mentioned.

Tickets to the state championship match are solely accessible on-line, and won’t be bought on the gate. Tickets might be bought at gofan.co/app/faculty/GHSA.

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