By Jeffrey A Poole

Published: March 27, 2008

The Orange County High School girls tennis team lost a heartbreaker Monday night, dropping all three doubles matches in losing to Charlottesville 5-4.
The young Hornets’ squad held a 4-2 advantage after singles play, but couldn’t win a doubles match and dropped to 1-3 (0-1 district) on the season.
In singles, Orange’s Brittney Squires beat Indu Chellah 10-6. Second seed Becca Hanley beat Charlottesville’s Rachel Woolworth 10-6.
Hornet Maria Kotulka earned a third win for the Hornets with a 10-8 win over Josie Evans.
Charlottesville’s Emma Paine beat Orange’s Chelsey Jones 10-1 and Caroline Cox beat Erin Chapman 10-4.
Hillary Bourke defeated Rita Ghawtey 10-8 to put the Hornets up 4-2.
But the Hornets’ doubles teams were swept leading to the disappointing loss. Squires and Hanley lost 9-7 to Chellah and Woolworth.
Evans and Paine teamed to beat Kotulka and Jones 8-6.
Bourke and Tee Warren lost to Cox and Ghawtey 8-5.
“We need to work on our doubles play,” coach Jay Allen said. “Hopefully, we can keep some of these matches close and pull out some of them.”
The girls tennis team got its first win of the season Thursday with an 8-1 drubbing of Spotsylvania.
The Hornets won all but one of their singles matches and swept doubles play to earn their first victory.
Brittney Squires got things started with an 8-0 win over fellow top seed Laura Wilcox.
Second seed Becca Hanley beat Shelly Waller 8-1.
In a third-seed match-up, Maria Kotulka beat Victoria Wilson 8-1, while Chelsey Jones beat Soo Lee 8-0 at number four.
Spotsy’s Sarah Mayhew beat Tee Warren 8-4, but Hillary Bourke beat Sheila Shedden 8-4 to secure the win for Orange.
In doubles play, Squires and Hanley beat Wilcox and Waller 8-0. Kotulka and Jones teamed to beat Wilson and Lee 8-4. Mayhew and Bourke bat Lillard and Wolfrey 8-3.
The win improved the Hornets’ record to 1-2 as they hosted Charlottesville Monday.

The girls team dropped its second match of the season to Chancellor last week, 7-2.
Hornet top seed Brittney Squires beat the Chargers’ Meredith Sharp 9-7.
Second seed Becca Hanley beat Suzanne Sharp 8-6.
After that, the Hornets struggled.
Kelsey Bond blanked Maria Kotulka 8-0.
Amanda Sturgis beat Chelsey Jones 8-4.
Brianna Blackshear beat Tee Warren 8-1.
In the final singles match, J. Tolbin beat Hornet sixth seed Erin Chapman 8-1.
Squires and Hanley couldn’t continue their winning ways in doubles, falling to Sharp and Sharp 6-2.
Kotulka and Jones nearly won their doubles match, but fell to Bond and Blackshear 9-7.
Warren and Hillary Bourke lost to Sturgis and Trayonn Thomas 8-1.
The loss dropped the Hornets to 0-2 on the season.