Doubles power, revenge leads Holland Christian girls tennis to OK Black Conference title
The Maroons got a little payback on their way to sweeping the doubles flights and winning the conference title.
HOLLAND - A sensational finish to the doubles matches propelled the Holland Christian girls tennis team to a conference championship. The Maroons swept the four doubles flights and claimed one of the singles titles to score 51 points and win the OK Black Conference tournament on Friday, May 8. Zeeland West finished second with 46, followed by Hamilton (38), Holland (27), Zeeland East (27), Unity Christian (19) and Spring Lake (16).
Holland Christian's No. 1 doubles team of Kassie Evenhouse and Stella Klooster claimed the flight championship with a 6-1, 6-2 win over Hamilton's Sophia Blauwkamp and Eran Meiste, avenging an earlier loss to the Hawkeyes during the season. More: Holland Christian's Camryn Nadig makes most of No.
1 singles power More: Zeeland West aims for conference title with stellar singles squad The other big performance came at No. 2 doubles as Holland Christian's Hope Bruinsma and Lily Wierenga held off Zeeland West's Molly Settlemyre and Brailee Bursley, 6-3, 1-6, 7-6(1) in a third-set tiebreaker. "For my seniors (at the top doubles teams), they rose to the level and rose to the occasion.
That is what you want to see at the end of the season," Holland Christian coach Lynn Bender said. "How do you handle pressure? They took it to the next level.