By the time the Marshall girls three singles players swept their third and final round of opponents, visiting Monrovia had already clinched the match with the needed 10 victories.<\/p>\n
But Grace Warren, Michelle Ionescu\u00a0and Melodie Ahn closed out the afternoon on a high note as Marshall fell to visiting Monrovia, 10-8.<\/p>\n
Warren was the only Marshall player who won all three of her matches, as Ionescu\u00a0went 1-2 and Ahn was 2-1 on Thursday in the nonleague showdown.<\/p>\n
Ahn\u2019s only loss of the day came in a first-match tiebreaker to Monrovia\u2019s Naomi Segerquist, 5-7.<\/p>\n
Marshall dropped five of its first six matches (first two rounds) which allowed the Wildcats to clinch the victory early.<\/p>\n
Christine Atamian and partner Alina Bayrakdarian, the Marshall No. 3 team, won a first-match victory over Monrovia\u2019s Lianna Fritz and Jenna Seright, 6-1 to account for the only doubles victory in the first two rounds.<\/p>\n
Marshall will begin league play in two weeks and coach Kevin Strotz says Rosemead and Arroyo are the teams to beat.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think their (Marshall girls) heads were in the game and I think they\u2019d admit that,\u201d Strotz said. \u201cWe made mistakes that we don\u2019t normally make, but we\u2019ll fix those and get better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By the time the Marshall girls three singles players swept their third and final round of opponents, visiting Monrovia had already clinched the match with the needed 10 victories. But Grace Warren, Michelle Ionescu\u00a0and Melodie Ahn closed out the afternoon on a high note as Marshall fell to visiting Monrovia, 10-8. Warren was the only […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-girlstennis"],"yoast_head":"\n