The Avery ladies tennis team closed out the home portion of its regular season in style, first in beating Hendersonville Tuesday on Senior night, then by avenging a loss suffered earlier this season at the hands of Mountain Heritage on Thursday.On Tuesday, October 6th the Avery tennis program recognized five seniors on Senior Night. In pre-match festivities Lauren Avery, Hayden Blackburn, Anna Melton, Leah Powell, and Morgan Stout were lauded for their contributions to Avery Lady Vikings Tennis.
As action ensued, the Lady Vikings did not allow the emotion of the afternoon to affect their play, taking a 7-2 overall match win as the team remained in the top three teams in the Western Highlands Conference.
Two evenings later, the Lady Vikings returned to
In singles action, the Lady Vikings got strong play from senior teammates Lauren Avery and Morgan Stout, the latter playing a dominant match in winning by a 10-3 match score. Haley Shell was victorious in her singles match, while senior Anna Melton beat Heritage's #1 Penny Lane Buckner by the final score of 10-6 in a great display of tennis between two strong and talented competitors.
The singles match victories put the Big Red ahead by a 4-2 overall scores going into doubles play, where Avery captured two out of the three doubles matches to earn a hard-fought 6-3 team victory.
The victories this week improves the Lady Vikings to 6-3 this season, and will look to pick up its seventh victory overall when they traveled to
