Moua, Behl & Kelly Minneapolis Champs

#1 posting 5.11.2006

MINNEAPOLIS CITY TOURNAMENT RESULTS
Mai Ku Moua, Minneapolis Henry avenged a loss to Edison's Mai Vue Xiong two weeks ago to claim the Minneapolis Singles title. Moua lost the first game, but came back and won 11-2, 11-5 to win the title.
Abby Behl and Lydia Kelly, Southwest won the doubles title against Edison's #2 team Ala Xiong & Charlotte Rymanowski.
Both Moua and Behl & Kelly were the second seeded in their respective tournaments.
Southwest was the only other school to be represented in the Henry/Edison semi party. Edison advanced both of their 1s and 2s to the semis.

SINGLES
SEMIS
Mai Vue Xiong, Edison def. Houa Pha, Henry 11-6, 11-4
Mai Ku Moua, Henry def Stacy Xiong, Edison 11-7, 11-6
3rd Place
Houa Pha, Henry def Stacy Xiong, Edison 11-7, 13-10
Championship
Mai Ku Moua, Henry def Mai Vue Xiong, Edison 9-11, 11-2, 11-5
This was the third time this year Moua and Xiong faced each other and Moua won the rubber match on Edison's home floor. Moua beat Xiong April 11 13-12, 11-6, while Xiong won on May 2 11-9, 11-4.
Game one was fairly tight early with Moua grabbing a 3-2 lead, but Xiong was able to side out against Moua six straight times. At this point Xiong outscored Moua 5-0 including three points on the 9th serve. Moua stormed back (I had the game tied at 10) but after gaining two points Moua had a hitting error. Xiong finished the game on her 13th service with Moua providing the point on a hitting error. Moua gave Edison 5 points with hitting errors, while Xiong also gave away five points.
Moua led right from the start after a missed serve by Xiong. By the seventh serve Moua led 7-1. Moua sided out five straight times against Xiong. On Moua's 10th serve she added four points, three of which were Xiong hitting errors 11-2. Xiong had 10 hitting errors for Moua points. Moua did not give away any points this game.
In the deciding third game Xiong led at 3-1 and 4-2. Moua took the lead at 5-4 on her 6th serve. Five straight side outs kept the score the same. Moua added an insurance point on her 9th serve. Xiong took her final point on her 9th serve. Moua scored on a drop on her 10th serve. On serve number 12 Moua finished the contest with a drop, a clear, a smash and a Xiong hitting error. Moua gave away four points on hitting errors, while Xiong gave away two.
Moua seemed to get stronger and played with a mission. Her power and placement making Xiong cover the whole court wore out her smaller opponent.

DOUBLES
SEMIS
Ala Xiong/Charlotte Rymanowski, Edison def Mai Chia Yang/Yer Yang, Henry 15-13, 13-15, 15-9. This was an upset as the Henry team of Yang & Yang were 13-0. In fact they had only lost three games all year.
Henry had a 6-3 lead on their fourth service. Edison took the lead at 7-6 on the strength of Rymanowski's three serves. All of those points were delivered on hitting errors by Henry. Henry did retake the lead on Yer Yang's serve 9-8. Again the three points on Yer Yang's serve were all the result of Edison hitting errors. On Edison's next service they cashed in four points, three on Xiong's serve. Edison led 12-9 at this point. Henry tied it at 13, but after Yer Yang tied it, she missed the next serve. Xiong then provided the final two points: one on a Henry hitting error, and one on an ace.
Henry gave 10 points to Edison with hitting errors, Edison gave six points on hitting errors.
In game two Henry again jumped out to a 6-2 lead. Again Edison came back and led 7-6. It was back and forth at that point with Henry grabbing a 9-7 lead only for Edison to reclaim it at 11-9. It was during Mai Chia Yang's serve that Henry had the lead for good. MCY served up five straight points, three of which were Edison hitting errors. Henry led 14-12. Xiong cut the lead to 14-13 on a MCY hitting error, but then Edison had two straight hitting errors to give the serve back to Henry. Rymanowski fanned and Henry won game two 15-13.
Game three had the same exact elements as the previous two with Henry taking a 6-3 lead. Rymanowski served up seven straight points once Edison got the serve. All seven were hitting error points. Three were wide, two were short, and two were in the net. It was Edison 10-6 at this point. Henry did cut that lead to 10-9, but after giving back the serve to Edison in was all Rymanowski as she served out the game 15-9. But Edison earned some of the points in this go round. Rymanowski had a smash, Xiong a drop, and a drive to end the game.
The two played earlier in the year with Yang & Yang winning on April 11 15-11, 15-12 when Xiong & Rymanowski were playing first doubles.

Abby Behl/Lydia Kelly, Southwest def See Vang/Chue Mi Thao, Edison --I somehow forgot to get this score.
3rd Place
Yang/Yang, Henry def. Vang/Thao, Edison 15-11, 15-4
Championship
Behl/Kelly, Southwest def. Xiong/Rymanowski 17-14, 6-15, 15-6

Next up: tomorrow afternoon with St. Paul results (I hope)