Good performances mark Pioneer losses
The WCHS tennis team dropped its home matches with Cookeville Thursday, with the boys falling 1-8 and the girls 2-7 at the McMinnville Civic Center Complex.
Warren County saw its No. 1-seeded player, Doug Roberts, play his best match of the season but fell in a 14 game match to Ryan Allison of Cookeville 8-6. Travis Powers fell to Justin Proctor 4-8 at No. 2.
Jacob Wilson picked up the only win for the Pioneers on the day, with an 8-5 win over John Boots.
Terry Tilton fell to Chris McReynolds 1-8, Nathan Maxwell lost to John Hess 0-8 and William Collier dropped his match 4-8 against Jon Jasitt.
The boys lost all three doubles matches with Roberts and Powers falling 0-8 against Allison and Boots, Cameron Gonder and Tyler Boyd lost to Proctor and McReynolds 6-8 and Wilson and Tilton came up short falling 5-8 at the hands of Hees and Jasitt.
For the Lady Pioneers Tina Vucic continued her winning ways with a 8-2 win over Liz Williams. Mo Zwemer lost her match against Rachel Coonar 5-8, Mary Beth Gribble fell 0-8 against Ali McCullough, Kristen Sharpe lost to Meg Ivey 1-8, April Kirby fell 1-8 against Susan Luna and Emily Hobbs was defeated by Natalie Shutor 2-8.
Vucic and Zwemer teamed to take an 8-6 win over Williams and Cooner, Sharpe and Miranda Osborn lost to Rebecca Boucher and Avia Guarneri 2-8 and Kirby and Gribble were defeated 0-8 by McCullough and Ivey.
The boys are now 3-7 on the year while the girls fell to 2-8. The teams will travel to White County Tuesday.