- Athletics
Mercersburg easily defeated visiting Garrison Forest School (Owings Mills, MD) 8-1 in a girls' varsity tennis match October 6.
The Blue Storm lost only 5 total games in the seven singles matches and then the teams split the two doubles contests. Head coach Mike Sweeney commented, "The girls' dominated in singles play by limiting errors and putting their opponents under constant pressure." Match results are listed below.
Singles:
#1 Hisano Enomoto '25 (8-0 win)
#2 Mogere Nyakoe '25 (8-2 win)
#3 Cate Dougherty '25 (8-1 win)
#4 Ava Shanefelter '26 (8-0 win)
#5 Anezka Pospisilova '26 (8-1 win)
#6 Ava Marathe '26 (8-1 win)
#7 Bella Tai '25 (8-0 win)
Doubles:
#1 Emily Tan '23 and Meaghan O'Kane '26 (8-4 loss)
#2 Amy Wang '27 and Cocona Yamamoto '25 (8-3 win)
Mercersburg (5-4) visits Georgetown Day School (Washington, DC) on Wednesday, October 11 for a 4:15 pm match.