Lady Bobcats tune up for spring season at Fall Championships
The matches were held at GCSU’s home at the Centennial Center courts. The other schools that competed in this event were Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College, Augusta State University, Florida Institute of Technology, Lander University, and the University of Tampa.
In singles matches, three Bobcats advanced into the quarterfinals; Seniors Marjorie Ceppo and Gabby Acuna and sophomore Bertille Lion.
In the quarterfinals, Acuna played a great match against Victoria Bell from the University of Tampa, but was defeated 4-6, 2-6.
“It was the toughest match this semester,” Acuna said, “but I was satisfied with my performance and Coach Barsby and I were happy overall.”
Lion defeated her opponent, Kourtney Stark from the University of Tampa, 6-4, 6-4 to advance into the semifinals. Ceppo also advanced into the semifinals with a 6-1, 6-1 win against Vuokko Vahatalo of Lander University.
Lion was defeated 1-6, 1-6 by Andrea Madrigal in the semifinals match. Ceppo also played a great semifinals match but lost in a match that extended to three sets against Natalia Ramos 4-6, 6-3, 3-6.
GCSU’s one doubles team of Ceppo and Lion won their first match against Mary Slade and Kourtney Stark from the University of Tampa 8-2 and advanced into the semifinals. The Bobcats played a great doubles match against Natalia Ramos and Abby Grief of Florida Tech but were defeated 4-8.
“We played well and we are working hard every day to prepare for spring season,” Ceppo said.
Head Coach Steve Barsby is also looking ahead to the more important spring season, when the Bobcats’ results will count toward a possible conference championship.
“We are doing well, but we need to work on our consistency and work on playing at a high level,” Barsby said. “We have a long break we will use for conditioning, and I think that we will be ready when spring arrives.”
The Lady Bobcats will continue to practice and develop as a team on the brief offseason this winter. The spring schedule has not been released to date, but spring play usually begins in the first week of February.
Coach Barsby has stated that he will be adding members to the women’s team for the spring run, so the key for the Lady Bobcats will be how these new players integrate with the current squad.
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on Oct 17 2008. Filed under Sports.
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