Pasadena Citizen - Sports
Ike throws team tennis season behind
By ROBERT AVERY
Add the team tennis season to the ranks of high school sports thrown into disarray by Hurricane Ike’s arrival on the upper gulf coast.
One week and two matches behind, the District 22-5A campaign will get going this afternoon. With fingers crossed that bad weather won’t hamper the October schedule, the district tennis coaches have designated Oct. 17 and 21st as Hurricane Ike make-up dates. Should bad weather force postponements in the upcoming weeks, then the district may be looking at Plan B.
The postseason tournament is scheduled for Oct. 23-25. The entire district campaign and the postseason tourney are in a somewhat tight window because the Region III tournament is scheduled to begin Oct. 31.
“The two matches that we missed last week we’re going to add at the end,” Sam Rayburn coach Wade Leake said during a practice at the Strawberry Park Tennis Center. “The Friday before our tournament was kind of a make-up date, so that will be the match that we lost on Tuesday (Sept. 23).”
The format of the postseason tournament will have the No. 1 and 2 seeds receiving a bye on Thursday. The No. 3 seeded team will oppose the sixth seed in one of the Oct. 23 matches, while the No. 4 seed will oppose the No. 5 seed in the other.
Those two winners will then advance to Friday’s action with the top-seeded team meeting the lowest-seeded team that survived Thursday’s action and the No. 2 seed facing the next highest which will represent the semifinals. The championship match will then be played on Saturday.
“That gives one and two a bit of a reward because they won’t have to play Thursday,” Leake said. “If it rains, we may have to play the top four teams (for the postseason tourney)”
The tennis teams will be going into district kind of blind because so many non-district matches became victims of the storm. Leake lost matches with Galveston Ball, Liberty and Crosby. Multiply that by seven additional teams and a minimum of three matches for each.
The road to recovery for the district team tennis schedule has Sam Rayburn traveling to Memorial today for a match that will start around 3:30. On Friday, Rayburn will play South Houston.
Rayburn’s boys squad will be led by the group of Ronald Plamann, Jonathan Perez, Carlos Gonzales, Joseph Bocanegra, Aldolfo Almanza and Jose Pena. On the ladies side, Marina Salias has been tabbed as the No. 1 girl. Candace Hinkey could be another to watch out for.
One week and two matches behind, the District 22-5A campaign will get going this afternoon. With fingers crossed that bad weather won’t hamper the October schedule, the district tennis coaches have designated Oct. 17 and 21st as Hurricane Ike make-up dates. Should bad weather force postponements in the upcoming weeks, then the district may be looking at Plan B.
The postseason tournament is scheduled for Oct. 23-25. The entire district campaign and the postseason tourney are in a somewhat tight window because the Region III tournament is scheduled to begin Oct. 31.
“The two matches that we missed last week we’re going to add at the end,” Sam Rayburn coach Wade Leake said during a practice at the Strawberry Park Tennis Center. “The Friday before our tournament was kind of a make-up date, so that will be the match that we lost on Tuesday (Sept. 23).”
The format of the postseason tournament will have the No. 1 and 2 seeds receiving a bye on Thursday. The No. 3 seeded team will oppose the sixth seed in one of the Oct. 23 matches, while the No. 4 seed will oppose the No. 5 seed in the other.
Those two winners will then advance to Friday’s action with the top-seeded team meeting the lowest-seeded team that survived Thursday’s action and the No. 2 seed facing the next highest which will represent the semifinals. The championship match will then be played on Saturday.
“That gives one and two a bit of a reward because they won’t have to play Thursday,” Leake said. “If it rains, we may have to play the top four teams (for the postseason tourney)”
The tennis teams will be going into district kind of blind because so many non-district matches became victims of the storm. Leake lost matches with Galveston Ball, Liberty and Crosby. Multiply that by seven additional teams and a minimum of three matches for each.
The road to recovery for the district team tennis schedule has Sam Rayburn traveling to Memorial today for a match that will start around 3:30. On Friday, Rayburn will play South Houston.
Rayburn’s boys squad will be led by the group of Ronald Plamann, Jonathan Perez, Carlos Gonzales, Joseph Bocanegra, Aldolfo Almanza and Jose Pena. On the ladies side, Marina Salias has been tabbed as the No. 1 girl. Candace Hinkey could be another to watch out for.
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