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The Bolingbrook girls tennis team of Danica Ujano and Jessica Ventura won their first match at the Joliet Sectional on Saturday, giving the Raiders their only win of the day.

Ryann Woodfill and Celina Onyejiaka lost to LP 6-2,6-0. Danica Ujano and Jessica Ventura won over Romeoville 4-6, 6-1, 6-3. Then, they lost to LP 6-0, 6-0. Annie Rollins lost to Romeoville 6-0, 6-0. Tracy Brezina lost to Plainfield North 6-0, 6-0.

Sargy Letuchy is the girls tennis coach at Bolingbrook. In this guest blog entry, he writes about his team's growth as the Raiders prepare for sectional play this weekend.

Coming into our sectional tournament, we just had our best result of the season. I think our players played with the confidence they worked so hard to develop the last 2 months. To go from 5th place last year, to 4th place this year and from 0 entries in the semifinals last year, to 5 entries in the semifinals this year is a great step forward for our program. The whole team deserves the credit for the improvement.

In sectionals, we have 2 sophomores playing singles-Tracy Brezina and Annie Rollins, and Celina Onyejiaka playing doubles with Ryann Woodfill and Danica Ujano playing doubles with Jessica Ventura.

Our sectional every year possess many tough schools, especially in singles. It has been many years since we have had an entry get through sectionals to the state tournament. However, since I took over the program, this is the best chance we have had. On Friday, our players will be prepared to show themselves and other area teams that they can compete for a spot in the state tournament.

I want to recognize and thank all the players for their time and effort this year. Hopefully, it continues throughout the offseason into next August.

Coach Speak details all the Bolingbrook Raiders results the coaches see fit to e-mail to The Brook Blog. If they add comments, we run them verbatim.

The Bolingbrook girls tennis team finished fourth at the Southwest Suburban Conference division meet. Four doubles teams and Celina Onyejiaka at No. 1 singles advanced to the semifinals on Friday.

On Saturday, we finished 4th. All of the entries came in 4th. This is a huge improvement from last year, when we finished 5th and did not have any entries play on the 2nd day.

Coach Speak details all the Bolingbrook Raiders results that coaches see fit to email to The Brook Blog. If they add comments, we run them verbatim.

The Bolingbrook Raiders girls tennis team competed at the Southwest Suburban Conference division meet on Friday. It continues on Saturday.

For conference, we will have 5 entries in the semis, all the doubles won their 1st round match:

1 singles-Celina Onyejiaka

1 doubles-Ryann Woodfill and Sherrie Phipps

2 doubles-Danica Ujano and Jessica Ventura

3 doubles-Arijhana Mann and cathy Villagomez

4 doubles- Shannon riley and Kyungwon Seo

The Brook Blog is excited to announce that we will stage our first session of Raiders Roundtable on Oct. 14 at 7:30 p.m.

Raiders Roundtable will be a weekly live chat that provides a discussion forum about Bolingbrook Raiders athletics. It's for fans. It's for students. It's for parents. It's for anyone who wants to voice their opinion about the Raiders.

Coach Speak is a regular feature that details all the Bolingbrook Raiders results that the coaches see fit to e-mail The Brook Blog. If they add comments, we run them verbatim.

The Bolingbrook Raiders girls tennis team lost 4-3 to Joliet Twp. on Thursday.

This was, by far, the closest conference match we have played in years. The girls have worked very hard this year to be able to compete like they did against Joliet. It is disappointing that we couldn't squeeze out 1 more win, but we will take this as a learning experience for future close matches. We will continue to work in practice on correcting our mistakes and gaining confidence in our shots.

Winners for the Raiders were Giselle Velasco 6-3, 6-4; Celina Onyejiaka 0-6, 6-4, 6-1; Shannon Riley and Cathy Villagomez 6-0, 6-4.

Coach Speak is a regular feature that details all the Bolingbrook Raiders results that the coaches see fit to e-mail to The Brook Blog. If they add comments, we run them verbatim.

The Bolingbrook Raiders girls tennis team lost 7-0 to Lockport on Tuesday.

We had some strong performances though, which was not the case last year because there were no close matches.

At #1 doubles Ryann Woodfill and Sherie Phips played a close 7-6, 6-4 match. At #1 singles Celina Onyejiaka played a close 7-5, 6-1 match. And at #4 doubles Danielle Kramolisch and Shannon Riley played a close 6-3, 6-2 match. We continue to improve and are starting gain respect from our opponents and their coaches.