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By Brian Pitts

Enterprise Record

The Davie tennis team goes into every match expecting to win. Davie’s players know it. The opponent knows it. And the War Eagles know the opponent knows it.

Davie’s undefeated/unchallenged season continued when it shut out Mt. Tabor in Winston-Salem and West Forsyth at home.

The singles lineup was the same in both 9-0 stompings: Elliot Newsome, Corbin Drum, Bailey Aderhold, Leah Gibson, Kate Chaffin and Casey Cao. The doubles winners against Tabor were Newsome/Aderhold, Drum/Chaffin and Cao/Ola Leszczuk.

Two days later against West, the doubles wins were posted by Newsome/Gibson, Drum/Aderhold and Chaffin/Cao.

The 10th Central Piedmont Conference win sealed Davie’s fourth straight regular-season championship, an unprecedented feat for Davie girls. It’s the school’s first four-year run since wrestling racked up six straight titles from 2008-13.

Davie’s score through 12 matches – 102-6 – is the stuff of legends.

“The match itself (against West) wasn’t that special, but it wasn’t special because of how much work we’ve put in and the talent and ability we’ve had this year, that we can go to a school like West Forsyth or Reagan or Reynolds and go in with confidence I don’t think we’ve had in my eight years and be like: ‘We’re going to get a win today,’” coach Collin Ferebee said. “That has been the most fun part of this year. Every match we feel like: ‘Yep, we’re going to be good today.’ It’s been a fun season of getting better and better and better, and I’m looking forward to how it ends.”

Ferebee’s player of the match against West was Ella O’Toole. Although the injured junior hasn’t played a match this season, the coach appreciates her unselfishness.

“I picked Ella because she’s had an injury, but she’s been at every single match and every single practice helping the team,” he said. “This win is for everyone who got us here because we all had to work together as a team. So this was really about the program more than any individual – because no individual could have gotten us here.”