MAC'S SPORTS REPORT BACK ON TRACK BY KYLE JACKSON ILLUSTRATED BY SIMON RUMBLE
PREDATORS OVERMATCH GULLS by Mac McKenzie This afternoon Coyote Canyon’s girls tennis team 7 1 continued its impressive resurgence with a hard-fought nail-biting road victory over Oceanview Middle School 5 3 The Predators winning point came in the closing act of a long tense afternoon With all other individual matches decided and each team having won three of them only the first-ranked singles or first singles remained on the court The top players teammates surrounded the court cheering Coyote Canyon’s new first-singles player Roe Danner slammed one powerful backhand after another into the corners Her worthy opponent from the Seagulls Jane Rodriguez scrambled to dampen Danner’s heat Ultimately the Predators star power
proved too much for Oceanview’s top player Coyote Canyon once again relied on its new weapon at the top of the lineup to pull out a close match No Coyote Canyon team has reversed course so dramatically as the girls tennis squad And while every member of the team has made contributions the arrival of new student Roe Danner has been essential to the team’s success this season Her stranglehold of the top spot in the Predators lineup has pushed her teammates down a slot in the team’s individual standings Because of Roe’s presence each Predator is now consistently playing an opponent she has a chance to beat This wasn’t the case a year ago when our Predators went 1 12 finishing last in the conference Roe is a marvel Coach Frankles said describing her top player She just keeps those heavy coming relentlessly with
