'Dogs drop tiebreaks in non-conference loss

HAMPTON – After Hampton-Dumont No. 3 singles player Jadin Beyer dropped a one-hour, 20-minute tiebreak match against Emma Spieker, pulling the Bulldogs into a tie with South Hardin at 3-all, H-D knew it had to win two of three doubles matches to earn the win.
It all came down to the last teams playing, another tiebreak for the No. 1 doubles team of Triston Rew and Erin Plagge.
A back-and-forth affair, in which the Bulldog duo led 3-2, fell back 4-3, tied it up on a break of the South Hardin serve and went ahead again at 5-4. Rew and Plagge then lost the next two to fall back to 6-5. Later, they led 40-15 on serve only to lose and fall behind 8-7.
Facing the match trailing 9-8, second-year coach Derrick Turner told the two during the break, ‘you have to have it.’
The full story appears in the April 24 print and online editions of the Hampton Chronicle.