Dave Lipe Quotations

They played well again together. I think all the doubles teams are starting to mesh well together and play solid together.

Those will be good tests for us. That tournament will have some good competition. We've got a full week planned.

We saw it coming and it got too wet to play. So we just called it a tie there, when the courts get wet they get slippery and there's no need to get someone hurt in a match like that.

We saved our best for last. That match didn't start until 11 p.m., so it was a long day and it was pretty late when we got out of there. The kids did a nice job with focus. It was late, they played three times, we played for 11 hours and they had prom the next day, so there were a lot of distractions there and we didn't let them bother us. That was good to see.

We got some nice performances. There were some good teams in this tournament, and we played a lot of them.

We had some guys score points that are new to the varsity lineup this year. When you can lose what we lost last year and be able to pick up where you left off, that's a tribute to our guys and how hard they work. Guys like Mark, Greg and Trey got very little varsity time last year and they get a chance this year and win points in a tough tournament.

It came down to the third place match at number three doubles, and the championship matches at numbers one and two doubles and I knew we had to win one of them or we'd tie, and we won two of them. After not playing so well Friday night in the wind, we played very well on Saturday and looked good.

Mark lost a tough three-set match and you never quite know how he will come back. But he came back and played a nice match in the doubles and they got a win.

I have to give a lot of credit to our grounds staff. They did an outstanding job of fixing things and getting it ready to play on. It didn't look good early, but they did a great job working on the screen and the fence and got us ready to play.

We looked at the weather and it didn't look good for Saturday. So we just did the whole thing Friday night. It was a long day of tennis, but we got it all in and we feel fortunate to have done that, to have been able to keep our focus all day long and win it.