Women’s Tennis: Orange 7, Cedar Ridge 2: Evidently, various members of the Orange women’s tennis team have stayed up way past their bedtime to watch some of the marathon matches during the U.S. Open this week and decided to emulate them.
On Tuesday night, Orange’s Shannon Sollars and Cedar Ridge’s Cameron Mayhew engaged in a four-hour marathon match at #2 singles–and they didn’t even play a third set tiebreaker. Sollars emerged from the struggle with a 7-5, 7-6 (9-7) victory to improve to 5-2 in singles matches this year. The length of Sollars’ singles match didn’t stop her from teaming with her older sister, Erin, in the only doubles match of the night. Erin and Shannon won 6-4 under the lights at Orange High Tennis Courts.
Cedar Ridge sophomore Adeline Cummings continued her impressive season with a victory at #1 singles. Cummings, who is now 7-1 in singles play this season, won 6-4, 6-3. Ella Caltabiano, another Cedar Ridge sophomore, captured her match at #3 singles 6-1, 6-4.
In addition to Sollars, Orange senior Sydney Rogers won for the Lady Panthers. Rogers, who became the first female to score a point for the Panthers football team last month, won 6-4, 6-4 at #5 singles. Orange’s Isabel Jones captured her match after her opponent retired. Madelyn Horn and Cedar Ridge’s Raven Mowles-Aring had the only three-set match of the night. Horn, an Orange senior, squeezed out a victory 5-7, 7-5, 10-5.
Orange has now defeated Cedar Ridge in six straight meetings.
Orange 9, Person 0: On Thursday, the Orange women’s tennis team rolled past Person 9-0 in Roxboro. The Lady Panthers lost only four games in the nine matches.
Erin Sollars captured her match at #1 singles 6-1, 6-0 to improve to 6-3 in singles matches this year. She has won ten matches overall. Shannon Sollars was victorious at #2 singles 6-0, 6-0.
Makayla Davis won at #3 singles 6-0, 6-0. At #4 singles, Isabel Jones won 6-0, 6-0. Madelyn Horn and Grace Allred finished out the singles sweep for Orange.
in doubles play, Erin and Shannon Sollars won at #1 9-0. Davis and Jones teamed together for a win at #2 doubles. Horn and Allred won at #3 doubles.
Orange is 6-2 overall. More importantly, they maintained second place in the Central Carolina Conference behind Walter Williams with a 3-1 mark. The top two teams at season’s end in the CCC receive an automatic bid to the 3A State Dual Team Playoffs.
Men’s Soccer: Western Alamance 2, Orange 1: The Orange men’s soccer team went toe-to-toe with the defending 3A State Champions on Tuesday night, asked no quarter and gave none.
The Warriors would emerge from Orange Soccer Field with a 2-1 victory. The Warriors scored the opener within the first ten minutes. With Orange trailing 2-0, the Panthers knifed the lead in half after Dylan Silverman scored off a feed from senior Darius Corbett. So far this year, Corbett has been responsible for all three goals for Orange this year. He scored the game-winner in Orange’s only victory thus far, a 1-0 victory over Knightdale. It was Silverman’s first goal of the season.
Orange (1-5, 0-1 in the Central Carolina Conference) will travel to Burlington to face Walter Williams on Monday. On Wednesday, the Panthers will host Cedar Ridge for the first leg of the Hillsborough Derby.
Cedar Ridge 8, Eastern Guilford 0: On September 2, senior Chris Mendez notched the first hat trick of the season for Red Wolves soccer as the Red Wolves rolled past Eastern Guilford 8-0 at Cedar Ridge Stadium. Mendez also scored two goals for the Red Wolves in a 6-3 loss to East Chapel Hill on August 30.