A string of three matches over three days was no trouble for the Cedar Ridge women’s tennis team.
On Wednesday, the Red Wolves completed a run of the table by beating South Granville 8-1 at Red Wolves Tennis Courts. It came one day after Cedar Ridge defeated Triangle Math & Science Academy 7-2.
The Red Wolves improved to 4-5, 2-3 in the Big 7 Conference.
Senior Jasmin Brown captured two matches for the Red Wolves against the Vikings, including the top singles match over Kirson Lavrack 8-1. Due to record-breaking high temperatures that reached 100 degrees in parts of central North Carolina, the matches were shortened to eight games as opposed to two sets.
Brown also teamed with Madeline Galindo-Woodring to defeat Lavrack and Adalyn Knox 8-2.
Galindo-Woodring also won two matches against the Vikings. In the #3 singles match, Galindo-Woodring defeated Gabby Pearce 8-1.
For the week, Galindo-Woodring won five of her six matches, including all three of her singles matches against Triangle Math and Science Academy and Durham School of the Arts.
Junior Phoebe Lund captured her singles match over Addyon Gray 8-1 at #5 singles. Lund also teamed with Emily Habib to defeat McKenna Womack and Leah Stanton 8-0. Lund won all six of her matches for the week, including wins in doubles with Lund and Ivaree Eads.
Junior Lucina Smylie defeated Adalyn Knox 8-1. Eads completed a sweep of the singles matches with a victory over Leah Stanton 8-1.
South Granville’s lone win was the longest match of the day. At #2 doubles, Dayana Bazan and Gabby Pierce defeated Laura Fisher and Eva Eads 9-7.
Cedar Ridge is 4-5 overall, 2-3 in the Big 7 Conference. They will host Orange on Tuesday in the first matchup between the crosstown rivals on the season.
Volleyball: Cedar Ridge 3, J.F. Webb 0
The Red Wolves cranked up 22 aces to cruise past the Warriors to win its first Big 7 Conference game on Tuesday at Red Wolves Gymnasium. Cedar Ridge trailed only once the entire match in winning 25-3, 25-7, 25-11 to improve to 8-1 overall, 1-1 in the Big 7 Conference.
Sophomore libero Nora Stoll had seven aces for the Red Wolves. Senior Addilyn Jackson had six kills while sophomore Dani Solomon had five kills, though she took most of the third set off.
Sophomore Solana Gutierrez-Quintero alternated with Kaitlyn Dixon at setter. Gutierrez-Quintero had 12 assists while Dixon recorded nine assists.
Cedar Ridge scored 14 consecutive points to close out the first set. Calla Lundberg had consecutive aces to start the run. Solomon closed out the frame with a light tap over the net assisted by Dixon.
The Red Wolves opened the second set with a 7-1 run. Addilyn Jackson delivered three straight aces during the run, leading to a Warriors timeout. Stoll had two straight aces to put the Red Wolves up 11-2. Jackson scored consecutive kills, which was followed by back-to-back aces from Solomon to augment the Cedar Ridge lead to 19-4. Jackson had four kills in the second set. Freshman Florence Mwanza ended the set with a kill from the center of the floor assisted by Lundberg, one of Cedar Ridge’s two seniors.
Webb scored the opening point of the fourth set, which was its only lead of the match. The Red Wolves had nine aces in the final set, with Stoll supplying four of them. Gutierrez-Quintero had three consecutive aces during a run of six straight Red Wolf points. The Red Wolves scored five straight points to increase its lead to 15-3, with Stoll delivering four aces during the run. Sophomore Avery Owens had three kills in the final set. Jackson scored the 24th point and Owens served up an ace on match point.
J.F. Webb falls to 4-7 overall, 0-4 in the Big 7 Conference.
Cedar Ridge has defeated J.F. Webb in four consecutive matches. Webb’s last win over Cedar Ridge came on October 13, 2016.
