Day two of the state tennis tournament

The Cheyenne Mountain junior Morgan Hall started her first set on fire, going up 5-2, but Josie Schaffer battled back to advance to her third straight title match, leaving Hall to wonder “what if’?” “I think that was maybe a little bit of my problem I just started looking at the end and I started seeing maybe if I win this first set maybe I can win the match and then I’d be in the finals but like I can keep my head up because I know she’s a great player,” says Hall.

In number two singles, Lewis Palmer’s Austynn Crocker continues her comeback season, advancing to the finals. “A few months ago I was playing really bad and I lost to some people I shouldn’t have lost to so this is really cool,” says Crocker.

From there we entered, the danger zone, Cheyenne Mountain needed semi-final wins to hold serve against Niwot in the race for the team title and Corey Patton-Lossner obliged reaching her second straight finals in two singles, “It’s going to be a fun match, we always have long matches so, I need to be more positive and just really believe in myself because if I’m not believing in myself then there’s two people against me not just one,” says Patton-Lossner.

Taylor Heinicke and Jensen Enterman advanced in one doubles, drawing the Indians even closer,

.”We just have to go out and play our best tennis and if the team wins, the team wins, but if we focus on that then none of us are going to do well,” says Heinicke.

Niwot and Cheyenne Mountain are now neck and neck atop the team standings.