Pendrak nets seventh at state tennis tourney

Wednesday, October 27, 2004

By Joe Warren

Nevada Daily Mail

Nevada junior tennis player Lisa Pendrak finished seventh overall in singles play at the Missouri State Class 1 Singles Tournament this weekend.

Pendrak won two matches and lost two as she set school records for most wins in a season.

In her opening match of the tournament Friday, Pendrak defeated Morgan Kemp of Fredericktown, 6-4, 7-6 (7-3).

That moved Pendrak into the quarterfinals where she played Morgan Rainey of Kansas City's Barstow High School.

Rainey proved to be too much for Pendrak, beating Nevada's number-one player 6-1, 6-0.

From there Pendrak moved into the quarterfinals of the consolation bracket, where she defeated Nicki Erickson of Marshall 6-0, 6-1.

In the semifinals of the consolation bracket Pendrak's record-breaking season came to an end as she fell 6-0, 6-0 to Megan Garlich of Missouri Independent Country Day School of St. Louis.

The loss gave Pendrak a seventh-place finish overall.

This season Pendrak finished with a 26-7 record, the best singles record in Nevada's school history.

The 26 singles wins extended her record that she had claimed earlier this season (the old record was 22).

Pendrak also finished with a combined 36-8 record in both singles and doubles play.

The 36 wins ties a Nevada single-season mark.

The two opponents that beat Pendrak over the weekend both finished in the top five individually.

Rainey finished in third place overall, while Garlich finished fifth.

Another player that did well at state was Thomas Jefferson's Felicia Owen. Owen and Pendrak played each other a few times this season, with Owen winning each time. Owen finished fourth at state, losing in the third-place match to Rainey.

Owen was the player who beat Pendrak in the district championship match.

Susan Sullivan of John Burroughs High School won the Class 1 individual title.

The tournament took place at the Cooper Tennis Complex in Springfield.

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