CASS Lawn Tennis Players Bring Home the Bacon

By Knacky July Hermodo

CASS ranked first place in the Lawn Tennis Men and Women Category. CASS's Lawn Tennis team is composed of Ave Eragan, BS Psychology; Felvin Ray Inducal General Education; Shem Tuazon, AB Sociology and Mahatyr Puntud, AB History student for the men category; Jhermevel Jheene Geromo, BS Psychology; Heide Salvedia, General Education; and Kristine Mae Deang, General Education for the women category.

In Game 1, the first opponent of the Men Lawn Tennis Players was last year's champion, SET. At the end of Game 1, CASS scored of 2 versus SET's 0. Game 2 was against SCS and again CASS scored of 2 versus SCS' 0. In Game 3, CASS fought against COE, last year's first runner up. They had a tie of 1-1 which led to a decision game for doubles. At the end of the decision game, the scores were 8-2, in favor of CASS. The result of the decision game assured CASS of first place in Lawn Tennis Men's Category.

The first game of the Lawn Tennis (Women) was so astonishing for they were able to score 2-0 versus CBAA. In Game 2, they were against CED, and had two rounds of tiebreaker for the first set. The second set of Game 2 finally led to the defeat of CED, with the standing score of 2- 0. CASS played against COE during the semi-finals and managed to have a 2-0 standing again. Since they defeated COE, CASS women lawn tennis team was then considered as twice to beat. In the championship game, they had a rematch with CED.

In the first set CASS lost against CED with a score of 8-4, while on the second set there was a tie-breaker and CASS succeeded with the score of 7-5. For the doubles round, the teamwork of CASS players worked well which resulted to a 2-1 score in favor of CASS, an assurance that they won the championship. The CASS Lawn Tennis Players stressed out that the reason why they lost last year is because they were so nervous with their opponents, that they found their opponents stupendous and difficult to beat; but because they were able to know their weaknesses, they were able to gain confidence and promised to win the said sport event next time; and in God's grace, they were able to prove it astoundingly.

However, the Lawn Tennis Players are dismayed with the fact that they are the only team who made it to the top and never thought that CASS would not make it to the Top 3 in this year's Palakasan. But they are still proud of the honor they have brought to CASS.

The team also credits their faculty coordinator, Prof. Peter Mendoza for his encouragement and support, which made them confident during their games. As a whole, CASS Lawn Tennis Players have proven that there’s nothing impossible for those who strive hard and think optimistically.