{"id":12174,"date":"2017-03-13T22:26:34","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T05:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/?p=12174"},"modified":"2017-03-13T22:26:34","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T05:26:34","slug":"bellevue-gets-early-nwac-challenge-from-highline-wins-5-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/2017\/03\/13\/bellevue-gets-early-nwac-challenge-from-highline-wins-5-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Bellevue Gets Early NWAC Challenge From Highline; Wins 5-4"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6611\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6611\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2016\/06\/Q2C8229.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6611 img-fluid \" src=\"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2016\/06\/Q2C8229-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"Marissa Kirk\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2016\/06\/Q2C8229-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2016\/06\/Q2C8229.jpg 574w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6611\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marissa Kirk was the first BC tennis player to earn points in the narrow 5-4 win over Highline (Photo by Rich Dworkis)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Bellevue College women&#8217;s tennis, a powerhouse in the NWAC, learned quickly that there is a new team ready to challenge them in Highline College; a first-year program who nearly beat the Bulldogs but ultimately fell in doubles play to lose 5-4 to Bellevue. Defending NWAC champ Moriah Austin lost #1 singles. Bellevue&#8217;s #3 singles Marissa Kirk was the first Bulldog to get on the board with a hard-fought 6-3, 2-6, 6-0 win. As the six singles matches were tied up at three apiece, BC prevailed by winning two of three doubles matches. Here are the complete results below.<\/p>\n<p><strong>s1 <\/strong>Hagerty (HC) def. Austin (BC) 6-1, 2-6, 6-1<br \/>\n<strong>s2 <\/strong>Hawkins (HC) def. Wright (BC) 6-2, 7-5<br \/>\n<strong>s3<\/strong> Kirk (BC) def. Silva (HC) 6-3, 2-6, 6-0<br \/>\n<strong>s4 <\/strong>Andreotti (HC) def. Nolan (BC) 5-7, 7-5, 10-8<br \/>\n<strong>s5<\/strong> Thomsen (BC) def. Ahmed (HC) 6-2, 6-1<br \/>\n<strong>s6<\/strong> Canley (BC) def. McElwain (HC) 6-1, 6-2<br \/>\n<strong>d1<\/strong> Austin (BC)-Kirk (BC) def. Hagerty (HC)-Andreotti (HC) 8-5<br \/>\n<strong>d2 <\/strong>Hawkins (HC)-Silva (HC) def. Wright (BC)-Canley (BC) 8-6<br \/>\n<strong>d3<\/strong> Nolan (BC)-Nguyen (BC) def. Ahmed (HC)-McElwain (HC) 8-1<\/p>\n<p>Bellevue plays at 9:00 a.m. on Sunday March 19 vs. Treasure Valley at Robinswood Tennis Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marissa Kirk was the first BC tennis player to earn points in the narrow 5-4 win over Highline (Photo by Rich Dworkis) Bellevue College women's tennis, a powerhouse in the NWAC, learned quickly that there is a new team ready to challenge them in Highline College; a first-year program who nearly beat the Bulldogs but <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/2017\/03\/13\/bellevue-gets-early-nwac-challenge-from-highline-wins-5-4\/\">...more about Bellevue Gets Early NWAC Challenge From Highline; Wins 5-4<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[32,6,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-womens-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12177,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12174\/revisions\/12177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}