Mishawaka Preview

Details: August 23, 2010 at 4:30 at Bethany Christian High School.

Last Season Review: Bethany Christian defeated Mishawak 5-0. Match report can be found here.

3 Interesting Facts:
- In this match last season, BC only lost 8 games total across all 5 varsity positions.
- In the past 3 seasons, BC has won exactly one position 6-0, 6-0.
- Mishawaka's Bobby LeRoy and Andrew Laubner have played varsity positions for all of their 3 high school seasons.

Mishawaka Details: As far as I've read results in the paper so far this season, I believe that Mishawaka is only 0-1 on the season. I've only seen a score from their match against Jimtown, in which they fell 4-1. The only spot they won was #1 singles, but many of the matches were close. Mishawaka looks like an improved team this season.

Bethany Christian Details: After the Concord Invite was postponed from this past weekend, we still sit at 2-0 after two good wins last week over Northridge and Goshen. So disappointing not to play last week, and now the Cavemen will be the first of 6 matches this week for us.

Projected Mishawaka Lineup:
#1S: Bobby LeRoy (1-0)
#2S: Andrew Laubner (0-1)
#3S: John Dickerson (0-1)
#1D: Andrew Furlow-Andy Dong (0-1)
#2D: Michael Furlow-Ryan Mathes (0-1)

Outlook: With Jimtown defeating Mishawaka, this is a match that we need to win. It is also a match that we should win. We have a lot of experience coming back, while Mishawaka returns one of their most experienced lineups for the past couple of years, with some of their better players coming back again this season. Their scores against Jimtown show that they have definitely improved. It will be really interesting to see what their JV looks like this year, because it is always good to see the programs on our schedule build toward the future.