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OCTOBER 23-29, 2019
Bulldawgs reign supreme Haddonfield girls’ tennis team collected its 17th straight sectional championship last week, the program’s 39th title in 44 seasons since 1975 By RYAN LAWRENCE Sports Editor
Haddonfield Memorial High School tennis coach Jeff Holman likes to keep his players active once school gets underway in September and then keep them active for the duration of the season. How active? Haddonfield played five matches in five days during the first week of the season. (It would have been six in five days, but one match was canceled). In week two, the Bulldawgs played seven matches. In the
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Haddonfield Memorial High School’s varsity tennis team — Molly Parks, Gillian Rozenfeld, Lily Hanna, Anna Swartley, Stella DeMarco, Kate Morris and Anna Tucker — show off the school’s new hardware, a South Jersey Group 2 championship trophy.
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FREE third week of the season, Haddonfield had matches each day of the school week, Monday through Friday, and then took part in the South Jersey Interscholastic Championships in Vineland that weekend. “There are some teams that only have one match a week and we play them every single day,” Haddonfield senior Gillian Rozenfeld said. “I like that,” junior Lily Hanna said. “I think it makes us successful.” The Bulldawgs take on Colonial Conference foes, they play in every in-season tournament available, they schedule matches against every top South Jersey tennis team, and they take on matchups with out-of-area foes, too, like Princeton Day School and The Lawrenceville School, too. The latter match, against a preparatory boarding school, resulted in a 5-0 defeat, the team’s first 5-0 loss since over a year earlier, also to Lawrenceville. And it came on the eve of the team’s sectional championship match. “It keeps them humble,” Holman said of a competitive and constant schedule. It also builds championships. Haddonfield’s senior-laden girls team scored a 5-0 win over Seneca in the South Jersey Group 2 championship match in less than an hour of work please see BULLDAWGS, page S8