Meg capped off three nights of tennis with a spectacular win tonight. Her grueling two hour and fifteen minute match had a lot of rallies especially in the first set. She started out playing very well and quickly took a 4-1 lead, but the Goshen player came back tying the set at 4-4. Meg had several set points, but ended the first set with a 6 all tie pushing the set into a tiebreak. Fortunately Meg came out on fire winning all but one of the eight tiebreak points giving her set a 1-0 set advantage.
The second set started after most of the other matches had ended theirs. Meg was not aware of the team score, but Goshen and Wawasee were tied at 2-2 with Wawasee's #1 and #2 doubles teams winning both of their matches. If Meg could win then her team would score their first NLC victory in almost a decade. Two of the managers told me that they were sure that she knew the pressure was on. Meg said afterward that she was glad that she did not know. She was anxious enough on her own.
Meg did jump out quickly to a 5-0 lead in the second set. Mr. Perek left as he was sure she would win and let me know if she didn't she would be expelled. The Goshen girl did rally and soon it was 5-2. I heard one of the high school spectators ask one of the other players why Meg was on the court so long. She said, "It's a Heinisch thing - last one of the court to pull out a spectacular win - just like Cal." I am happy to say that she was right. Meg did win 6-2 securing her first NLC win and the team's first in quite some time. It was a lot of fun watching and made up for the previous two loses of the nights before.
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