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Show Page B4 Thursday, October 2, 2003 Times Newspaper iris' tennis slips toy Timpan Bruin gi LANDON OLSON Times Sports Editor It's a few days late, but the Region VII tennis regular season has finally wrapped up. Their match was delayed until Monday due to smoke from a nearby wild fire, but its wasn't too big a deal for either Mountain View or Timpanogos. The T-wolves played one of their best matches of the season, coach Suzy Hansgen said, but the Bruins were able to slip away with the 3-2 win. "We played better. This was probably our closest match of the year," Hansgen said. "We finally are starting to put some things together." The two biggest matches for the Timberwolves were No. 3 singles sin-gles and No. 2 doubles. In the singles match, Kandace Thomas was able to win by identical iden-tical 6-3, 6-3 scores against Kim Bushnell, while at No. 2 doubles, Skye Smith and Janae Anderson edged Dani Whittaker and Jessica Nielson 6-4, 7-5. About Thomas, Hansgen said, "She started playing really well today. She finally put it together. It'll be big for her and big for our team. We're going to start there and feed off of that and just a little lit-tle bit of confidence goes a long way." In the other matches, though, it was all Mountain View. At No. 1 singles, Bridgette Strickland won the first set 6-4, but fell behind 3- 1 in the second before winning five straight games for the 6-3 win. At No. 2, it wasn't quite as close as Brooke Tenney won 6-2, 6-2 over Paige Nelson, someone she played in three sets earlier this season. "Brooke, she's been awesome. She's been playing really well this season. She knows what it takes to win," said Bruin coach Lisel Robert. The other Mountain View victory vic-tory came at No. 1 doubles where Staci Spencer and Brooke Holdaway have been playing tough, Although the games were closely contested, the Bruin duo picked up a 6-2, 6-0 win. "We knew that Timpanogos wanted to come and they wanted to take it, and we knew we couldn't could-n't just let it go easy," Holdaway said. With the victory, Mountain View improves to 5-3 in region while Timpanogos drops to 0-8 heading into the region tournament tourna-ment Thursday and Friday. While the win will give the Bruins some momentum, Robert said she had hoped to have the extra time to practice. "It's a great to be able to win before the region tournament and give some of those girls a little bit more confidence before we go in," she said. But, "I'd rather have more time to prepare for the tournament tour-nament and work on some things based on the matches we win and the matches we lose here. Either r 9 , v J H i ' .7,1 . ' . i" ' . ' photo by l.amlon OIsoii'''hic.v Newspaper Timpanogos' Skye Smith returns a shot while Bruin Dani Whittaker waits at the net in anticipation of a possible pos-sible return shot during doubles action Monday. Smith and partner Janae Anderson won 6-4, 7-5. way, we'll be ready for Thursday and Friday for sure." For Timpanogos, Hansgen said she's just happy to see her team perform better and get some more experience to build on, but basically, basi-cally, the season starts over at region. "We have absolutely nothing to lose and that's the attitude the girls have to have at this point," she said. "Anything can happen, anything is possible and they have nothing to lose. They just come out and hit the ball and hopefully win and qualify for state." Timpanogos will have the advantage of hosting the tournament, tourna-ment, though. Seedings were announced Wednesday and play begins Thursday at 1 p.m., continuing contin-uing through Friday with the championship matches. UNDERDOG continued from Page Bl she has nothing to lose. "There's a lot to be said for not having anybody look to you to do anything," Hansgen said. "You can go out there and just let nature take its course and play naturally. nat-urally. Let your body take over. "Get your mind out of the way and let your body take over and good things will happen. I really believe it," the coach said. Getting her mind out of the way, or at least altering her mental game, is something some-thing Madsen said is going to be a key for her at the tournament. She said one of her biggest challenges will be staying positive mentally instead of getting down on herself. "When I get negative, I start playing worse and worse," she said. "Also, just do everything I can to keep consistency." She's started toward that consistency by playing more relaxed now. In her last match, she said she knew she had nothing to lose so that helped to keep her calm. The result? She said she did play a bit better, taking another step toward being ready for the tournament. Once the mental game clicks for her, she can allow her skills to take over. She said her serve can be a real strength as well as her ability to hit good approach shots, things that will be key to her winning the big points. And luckily, those things are minor enough to be adjusted. "It's not like I can go and change anything any-thing right now. It's too hard to work on it," she said. "Just little things. Consistency. Get shots in. Just work on the little things that will make a big difference. "Just be positive. Just go into it with a good attitude," she says. While Madsen will be looking for the upset she certainly does want to qualify for state she already has the right atti tude, being happy just having the opportunity opportu-nity to play. "It's been fun," she said. "I would have rather totally have played and lost than not have played at all. It's just been a good experience. I've learned a lot from it. "Then again it's kind of stressful too just because I'm a senior, my last year, but whatever what-ever happens, happens. 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