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50 | September 13, 2018 | The Mokena Messenger sports
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Knights tennis
fundraiser a huge success
Girls brave the heat,
raise $1,200 for
tennis lessons
Submitted by South
Suburban Tennis Academy
The Lincoln-Way Central
Girls tennis team enjoyed
a huge success on Aug. 26
with its fundraiser.
The girls on the tennis
team taught 120 thirty-minute
tennis lessons earning
$10 for each lesson.
“The athletes really do enjoy
the day of helping others
learn the lifetime game of
tennis,” Central coach Sue
Schneider said. “I tell the girls
a quote that I learned from my
father: ‘To teach is to learn
twice,’ and that is exactly
Chrisian Rachanski zeroes in on the tough high forehand
during his lesson Aug. 26 at the Lincoln-Way Central girls
tennis team fundraiser at the school. Photo Submitted
what the athletes get from this
experience, as well as giving
back to the community. They
leave the courts with a sense
of accomplishment that they
taught someone a tennis skill
or concept, which then reinforces
their own knowledge
of the game.”
Schneider is enjoying a
year with a record 43 girls
on the team squad.
Girls tennis
Central, East tie for fifth at invite
Sean Hastings
Freelance Reporter
The Lincoln-Way East
girls tennis invite brought
out some of the toughest
competition the area has to
offer Saturday, Sept. 9.
Just 4.5 points separated
Lockport (24.5), Latin (22)
and Sandburg (20) for the
Top 3 spots. East and Lincoln-Way
Central ended
in a tie for fifth with 12.5
points and Lincoln-Way
West came in at 10th with
six points.
Central junior Kiana
Sikich played two hardfought
first- and secondround
matches at the No.
2 singles spot. She fought
past West sophomore Vica
Maratea (6-3, 6-4) and
slipped past Sandburg junior
Julia Canellis (6-4,
6-4).
That is when she ran into
Lockport junior and No. 1
seed for the match, junior
Natalie Barth. Barth had
a first-round bye and then
beat Sikich 6-0, 6-0.
The trio of District 210
schools all ran into trouble
in the second round of No.
1 doubles. East was slated
against Lockport, where the
Porters won 6-0, 6-0.
Juniors Ellie Marrion and
Maddie Harper played at
No. 1 doubles for East. The
girls won 6-2, 6-3 in their
first round matchup with
LaSalle-Peru.
East head coach Wes
Cooley was not able to see
many of the girls play Saturday
since he was hosting
the match, but was happy
with how his team played,
he said.
“[Our No. 1 doubles
team] had a rough run,”
Cooley said. “They probably
had the worst draw of
anybody. They won their
first match, then drew into
the No. 1 seed and lost to
really tough Morris team in
the back draw.
“Overall, super proud of
how the girls played and
their tenacity on the court,”
he said. “It’s always fun to
watch this high-level competition.”
East’s No. 2 doubles team
of junior Sara Cooley and
sophomore Camryn Mitchell
won their first-round
match over Oswego, but
lost a nail-biting tiebreaker
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