Union fares well against Grahamstown rivals

GRAAFF-REINET NEWS - Union's Top 8 Senior boys' and girls' tennis teams competed against traditional Grahamstown rivals, St Andrews, DSG, Graeme College, Victoria Girls and Kingswood on Sunday, 20 January during the annual Grahamstown quadrangular.

The girls beat both Victoria Girls and Kingswood by 12 matches to 0, with only DSG providing any opposition.

UHS won this clash by 7 matches to 5, winning the overall title by two matches.

Special mention must be made of Micela Loock (number 1) and Christine Harris (number 3) who were unbeaten on the day in both their singles and doubles matches.

Congratulations are also extended to Micela Loock who has been announced as the girls' captain for 2019, with Jenna McNaughton as vice-captain.

The Union boys who were competing for the Settlers cup, played tenacious tennis against strong opposition all day.

While some individual matches were very closely contested, their fighting spirit saw them beating Graeme College by 10 matches to 2 and Kingswood, 9-3.

Going into the final round, St Andrews was one match ahead ofUnion.

Losing 3 of the singles matches in tie-breakers, the boys fought hard but were beaten on the day by 8 matches to 4.

St Andrews then beat Union into second place by 5 matches overall.

While every member of the team contributed positively, excellent results were achieved by Noä Cilliers, Ebben Johnston and Bowen Langmead. Union would also like to congratulate Ebben Johnston who was elected tennis captain for 2019 and Peter Watermeyer, vice-captain.

Union’s Top 8 Senior boys’ competed against Grahamstown rivals St Andrews, Graeme College and Kingswood during the annual Grahamstown quadrangular.