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Cape girls’ tennis opens season with a W

Cape first doubles player Juliana Warnock pops a forehand volley in the win over Smyrna. DAN COOK PHOTOS
Dan Cook
March 23, 2022

The Cape girls’ tennis team started off its 2022 campaign on the winning side with a 4-1 victory over Smyrna March 22 at home.

Picking up a win were singles players Noa Aboutboul and Mackenzie Vitolo and doubles duos of Juliana Warnock and Rachel Ramjattansingh and Madison Costello and Sia Patel. Aboutboul won the second singles match with a 6-1, 6-1 win over Paisley Cole. In third singles, Vitolo defeated Maria Sterling 6-0, 6-0. The Vikings’ first doubles of Warnock and Ramjattansingh downed Elayna Tush and Emma VanOrden 6-1,6-1, while the second doubles team of Costello and Patel defeated Marion Mongare and Jayden Hill 6-3, 6-1.

The Vikings welcome the Jays of Seaford Wednesday, March 30.

 

Senior first singles player Samantha Connors hits a backhand drive in her loss to Smyrna’s Ava Emrich.
Cape second singles player Noa Aboutboul slams a serve.
Second doubles player Sia Patel smacks a forehand volley.
Cape senior Madison Costello hits a forehand drive in the second doubles match.
Cape’s Rachel Ramjattansingh hits a backhand drive in the first doubles match.
Senior Mackenzie Vitolo hits a forehand volley in the third singles match.
First doubles player Rachel Ramjattansingh eyes a forehand.
Cape senior Madison Costello hits a low backhand during the second doubles match.
Second singles player Noa Aboutboul pops a forehand volley.
Cape’s Sia Patel hits a forehand in the second doubles match.
Smyrna’s first singles player Ava Emrich hits a running forehand out wide.
Cape senior Samantha Connors slams a serve.
Senior Mackenzie Vitolo gets some major air to slam a forehand drive.
Cape senior Juliana Warnock hits a backhand drive.

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Dan has worked for the Cape Gazette for more than 30 years as a photographer and reporter, covering high school sports and happenings around eastern Sussex County. He won a photography award from the National Newspaper Association, and numerous awards from the Maryland, Delaware, D.C. Press Association. A Delaware native, Dan graduated from Cape in 1972 and returned as a teacher and coach in the 1980s. He retired from the classroom in 2016. He was inducted into Cape High’s Legends Stadium in 2016. In his spare time, Dan enjoys spending time with his wife, two sons, grandchildren and dogs. 

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