WCMS drops openers

Warren County Middle School’s girls lost a close match to Murfreesboro’s Central Middle Wednesday, while the boys captured just one individual win as both teams opened their season.

The Lady Pioneers’ Allison Maxwell won at No. 3 singles, taking an 8-6 victory over Tori Taylor for her team’s only singles win. The doubles teams of Jac Smartt and Elizabeth Hill won 9-8 (3) over Sonia Agarwal and Grace Langeland, while Warren County’s Brittany Williams and Caitlin Llewellyn won 8-3 over Taylor and Lauren Duke.

But Central took three of four singles victories and the No. 3 doubles match to capture the 4-3 win.

Elisha Ray of WCMS was defeated by Casie Gossett at No. 1 singles, while Agarwal beat Warren County’s Williams at No. 2 and Hotomi Yokoyama won over the Lady Pioneers’ Katy Campen at No. 3.

Murfreesboro’s only doubles win came at No. 3, when Gossett and Yokoyama defeated Montana Jones and Catherine Hill.

In boys play, Travis Gay and Blake Hitchcock picked up the Pioneers’ only victory, winning 8-5 over Central’s David Melvin and Chris Hale at No. 1 doubles.

The duo of Shawn Parsley and Nathan Alexander lost to Central’s Brett Markley and Casey Edwards, while Trent Miller and Taku Imoto were shut out 8-0 by Murfreesboro’s Jimmy Taylor and Reese Peltier.

in singles play, Russell Hitchcock had the closest match of the day for the Pioneers at No. 5, but fell to Markley 4-8. Kyle Wishing was an 8-0 winner over WCMS’s Gay at No. 1k, while Hitchcock lost to Travis Moody at No. 2 and Morgan Gonder lost to Melvin at No. 3 singles.

Bobby Rampp was shut out by Hale at No. 4, and Kyle Jones lost at No. 6 singles, falling 1-8 to Edwards.

Warren County’s next scheduled match will be Friday, April 12, on the road at Sumner Academy.