Bakersfield College women’s tennis team picked up a 7-2 win over Glendale College on Mar. 9.
Coach Gene Lundquist was happy with the way the women played in the last match.
“It was our best match of the year, and we had four out of the six singles matches go three sets,” he said.
“We came from behind and won three of those and then of course we went on to win all three doubles,” he went on to say.
“I think it was our best match in terms of performance, not just because we won, but because of the competitiveness that all of our players showed,” he said.
“Their coach said at one point he thought they were going to win five matches in the singles, turned out they only won two of them,” Lundquist said.
The Renegades are currently in fourth out of six in the Western State Conference.
Megan Pate-Raphael, the team’s No. 1 seed, lost her match in three sets.
“I did really well the first set and the second set came around I kind of started feeling really tired and then I ended up losing in the third set tie-breaker,” she said.
She went on to speak of how being sick affected her in the last match.
“If I was not sick, I would have been able to run and move and would have played a lot better.”
Pate-Raphael feels the team can finish out the season by going 5-5.
Sophomore Emily Carnal is hoping the girls can pick up momentum with this win and finish strong.
“Not finish last in conference, finish third in conference.
We were expecting to finish first since last year’s number one dropped their program,” said Carnal. “We expected to move up but we underestimated all the teams in our conference this year.
“We want to come out on the upper half,” she said.
She also spoke of a personal goal she is looking to accomplish.
“I really want to keep my number three spot through the end of the season,” Carnal said.
Stevie Lincoln talked about the approach she takes into each match.
“It’s always a matter of perseverance and who wants it more,” she said.
“Our goal, in the second half of the dual meet session, is to again beat the teams that we beat, and hopefully knock off one of the ones we failed to defeat in the first round,” Lundquist said.
The Renegades travel to Santa Barbara on Mar. 18 and have a bye the following week on Mar. 23.