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You can’t take the smile off Shane Nixon’s face right now. His Davie tennis team has gone from 2-5 to 8-6, including a 9-0 home nonconference win over Mooresville on April 8.
“We’ve had two non conference matches in a row, both against teams that will be conference foes next year,” Nixon said. “Our scheduling goal was to get a look at them now and play good teams. Mooresville is a solid team. I’m not trying to imply they are world-beaters, but earlier this year we’d have had issues against them – my point being this was more about how much better we have gotten. It is more about us getting better and less about Mooresville’s level of play.”
Everything clicked as Davie got singles wins from Grayson Busse, Zach Hill, Barrett Taylor, Luke Cranfill, Brady Carter and Riley Mallory and doubles victories from Hill/Taylor, Busse/Chris Samet and Carter/Cranfill.
“From top to bottom, from No. 1 through all of my exhibition guys, we played really well,” he said. “I’m super proud of those guys at the bottom of the lineup – Owen Tomlinson, Jonah Almond, Avery VanLente and Luke Whitton. These guys don’t get a ton of real match play, but they keep going out and winning matches. I’m very pleased with them. And everyone else played really well.”
Davie 9, Parkland 0
One day later, it was more of the same as the War Eagles pummeled the Mustangs. All the singles scores were 6-0, 6-0. All the doubles scores – the pairings were Carter/Mallory, Samet/Almond and VanLente/Whitton – were 8-0.
“Anything I say about Parkland always begins and ends with Davie County’s own, Dana Johnson,” Nixon said. “Parkland’s coach does a magnificent job with those kids.”
The War Eagles (8-6 overall, 6-5 CPC) recorded their fourth shutout and pushed their winning streak to four.
“Four wins in a row and six out of seven is making my ‘we keep getting better’ mantra look good,” Nixon said.
Notes: Here are singles records for the season: Busse 7-7 at Nos. 1-2, Hill 5-9 at Nos. 1-2, Taylor 7-7 at No. 3, Cranfill 14-0 at No. 4, Carter 11-1 at Nos. 5-6 and Mallory 11-2 at Nos. 5-6. … In doubles, Mallory/Carter are 4-2 at Nos. 2-3 and Carter/Cranfill are 5-0 at No. 3.