Dragon Tennis Wins TTCA Championships for Private Schools
Results from the week of February 28
VARSITY TENNIS
3/4-5 at TTC Private School Championships
Dragons are 2022 TTCA State Champions for Private Schools
Coach Jill DelRio: The Texas Tennis Coaches Association (TTCA) hosted an inaugural Private School Tennis Team Championship this weekend. Nine teams participated in the event. Our boys and girls tennis team came away victorious after two days of exhausting play. The team beat Abilene Christian School and Nolan Catholic School on Friday with only one loss out of 26 matches. On Saturday the team beat out a very talented Strake Jesuit and St. Agnes team to make it to the championships.
The competition on Saturday was so great that we had to wait three hours after our scheduled time to play because the match before to determine our opponent was not determined until the last match.
Three hours is a long time to wait but John Cooper players were motivated to win and stayed focused on the goal the entire time.
All of the players played well, some players playing both singles and doubles, giving them eight matches this weekend. Mahi Khurana and Erika Olson were never really challenged, only giving a few games to their opponents out of their eight matches. Marielle Sauber and Olivia Sauber played both doubles and singles as well and did not lose any of their matches winning all but one in straight sets.
Parker Gregory and Theo Nemeth also played both lines, winning all on Friday and only having a couple of challenges on Saturday.
Brie Leavitt stepped up for the team as well playing both lines in two of our matches winning four out of her six matches. Presley Sansbury normally playing only doubles played one singles match adding a win for the team. On the reverse, Luke Smith normally only plays singles but was able to help the boys team in doubles as well.
Our doubles specialists Joey Barron, Danny Capsimalis, Tristan Dakai, and Nora Alizadeh played solid matches against some very strong doubles teams.
Laurent Moran and Payton Lindsay were ready to step in for the teams as our tournament alternates. Ibrahim AliKhan our team manager was at the ready with water, Gatorade, and making sure we had pictures to document our team's outstanding wins.
This tournament was a great test for the team with our conference matches just around the corner. On Tuesday we play Kinkaid School at home and on Thursday we play Awty on their home courts.
Next up for Dragon Tennis:
March 8 vs. Kinkaid*, 4 p.m.
March 8 vs. Kinkaid*, 4 p.m.
March 10 at Awty International*, 4 p.m.
VARSITY TRACK & FIELD
3/4-5 at St. John’s Maverick Relays
Boys 5th • Girls 9th
Coach Scott Holland: It was refreshing to compete in temperatures not hovering in the mid-40s. St. John’s puts on a great meet with outstanding competition.
Boys Team Finished 5th out of 24 teams.
Andrew Wilkerson 800m Champion
4X400m Relay 2nd: Amir Rizvi, Andrew Wilkerson, Tanure Ewherido, Carson Hanson
Aditya Pakal 2nd 3200m
Amir Rizvi 3rd 110m Hurdles & 5th 300m Hurdles
Nico Signorelli 3rd Pole Vault
Carson Hanson 3rd 800m
William Young 5th Pole Vault
Jean-Paul Labbe 6th High Jump
Adam Elsolh 6th 400m
Matthew Rock 6th Long Jump
Grey Mendenhall 7th 1600m
4X100m Relay 8th: Ryan Cockrill, Dominic De Mount, Daniel Schlichter, Jean-Paul Labbe
4x800m Relay 8th: Campbell Young, Morgan Davis, Grant Wilson, Krishna Venugopal
Girls Team finished 9th our of 26 Teams
Abby Mendenhall 3rd 800m
Megan Day 3rd 3200m
Sienna Williams 4th 300m Hurdles & 5th 100m Hurdles
Haley Lien 6th 100m Hurdles
Onese Ewherido 6th 200m
4X400m Relay 7th: Bailey Leavitt, Alexis Seymour, Sienna Williams, Onese Ewherido
Alyssa Kuang 8th High Jump
We are looking forward to a great week of training and competition as we head into a short week prior to Spring Break. Thursday, we will be competing at the Dog Pound Invitational at Magnolia High School and a group will compete at the Raevyn Rogers Invitational hosted by Kinkaid.
Next up for Dragon Track & Field:
March 10 at Dog Pound Invitational, Magnolia High School
March 10 at Raevyn Rogers Invitational, Kinkaid
VARSITY BASEBALL
3/3-5 at St. Pius/St. Thomas Tournament
vs. Tomball Kings • 11-7 L
vs. LSA • 10-1 L
vs. Fort Bend Christian • 12-5 L
vs. Bay Area Christian • 6-4 L
Next up for Dragon Baseball:
March 8 vs Concordia Lutheran, 7 p.m.
March 10 vs Houston Power, 6 p.m.
VARSITY SOFTBALL
3/3 at Incarnate Word • 16-6 L
Coach Nicole Hedden: Maggie Flinn led the Dragons with three of the team’s nine hits.
3/4 vs Second Baptist • 16-3 W
Coach Nicole Hedden: Dragons scored six runs in the second inning thanks to Maggie Flinn, Bella Tamayo, Grace Minarovic, Sydney Kelly, and Ella Howard. Pitcher Tamayo went five innings, allowing three runs on six hits, striking out six, and walking one.
We had three home runs on the day! Minarovice went deep in the second inning, Leah Ruckman had a long ball in the third, and Tamayo went yard in the second.
We had three home runs on the day! Minarovice went deep in the second inning, Leah Ruckman had a long ball in the third, and Tamayo went yard in the second.
There were 20 hits in the game: Tamayo, Flinn, Howard, Ruckman, Minarovic, Ashlyn Kuntz, and Kelly all collected multiple hits. Minarovic, Ruckman, Howard, Flinn, and Tamayo each had three.
Next up for Dragon Softball:
March 8 at Concordia Lutheran, 4:30 p.m.
March 9 vs. St. Francis Episcopal School, 5 p.m.
March 9 vs. St. Francis Episcopal School, 5 p.m.
March 10 vs. Northland Christian School, 4:30 p.m.
VARSITY GOLF
Next up for Dragon Golf:
March 6-7 at St. John’s Invitational, Wolfdancer Golf Club
March 29 hosting John Cooper Invitational
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