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
backhands She wears opponents down We wouldn’t be having the year we’re having without her that’s for sure Danner was not available for a post-match interview
CHAPTER 1 Scuttlebutt That’s the word Stewart Mac McKenzie has been searching the archives of his brain for the perfect word the last several days He couldn’t find it until a moment ago He had just rolled his wheelchair out of his social studies class and started heading toward his locker at the other end of the school when suddenly there she was next to him the one and only Roe Danner She just happened to be making her way down the same hall as him at the same time Of course Mac would love to do an interview But Roe’s not looking to have her story told that much has been obvious by the way she’s dodged him at the end of this season’s students attention shifts to them well to her the tennis matches As
