Photos: Dutch Treat
It’s the end of the regular season for Guilderland field hockey and the start of individual sectional play for the girls’ tennis team. The Dutch field hockey team traveled to Shaker last Friday to play the Blue Bison and won, 2 to 1. The tennis team brought two singles and two doubles teams to compete in sectionals at the tennis courts in Schenectady’s Central Park on Tuesday.
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Lob: Guilderland’s Katrina Setchenkov watches as the ball as her teammate, Aasiyah Virjee, stands ready behind her. Setchenkov/Virjee, the Dutch’s number-one doubles team, won, 10 to 0, over Haller/Ecker from Maple Hill in the first round. The team will play in the quarterfinals Friday at 2 p.m.
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Ace! Joanna Chen nails a serve against Madison Tracey from Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk in first-round singles. Tracey won, 10 to 0, then fell in the third round.
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Sharing a laugh: Guilderland’s Lavanya Prabhakar, right, and Meghana Bhupati smile after winning a point against A. Motyka and J. Palleschi. The dutch’s second doubles team won, 10 to 2, and advanced to the quarterfinals as well.
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Quick shooter: Guilderland’s Caitlin Mooney, center, gets a shot off in the first half that got past the Blue Bison goalie. Halle Risko scored the Dutch’s the other goal.
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Tough Defense: Guilderland's Rachel Drislane chases after Shaker’s Marykate McGuirk in the first half. The Dutch open up sectional play today at 3 p.m. at Bethlehem.
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Hard stick fight: Guilderland’s Meg Collins, left, puts her stick into the two sticks from Shaker players in the first half
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Moving forward: Guilderland’s Caitlin Mooney, right, sticks the ball up the field as Shaker’s Keeley Frazier follows her in the first half of last Friday’s matchup at Shaker. The Dutch won, 2 to 1. Mooney scored one of the goals.
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Hitting back: Guilderland’s Isabela Parker hits a backhand toward her Albany Academy opponent Amanda Ricci in the first round of the individual sectionals on Tuesday morning at the Central Park tennis courts in Schenectady. Parker lost, 10 to 4.
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High five! Guilderland’s top doubles players, Aasiyah Virjee and Katrina Setchenkov, slap hands after winning a point in their first-round victory against Maple Hill’s C. Haller and C. Eckel. Virjee and Setchenkov won, 10 to 0.
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Full extension: Guilderland’s Meghana Bhupati nails a backhand winner against the team of A. Motyka and J. Palleschi of Schalmont in the first round of the doubles individual sectional. Bhupati and her partner, Lavanya Prabhakar, won, 10 to 2.