The Mountain Lion Talk

Senior Sophie Bearden , who's been on the roster since 2021, is two games away from 90.  Senior Joha Bernis is just seven games away from 100 for her career and has appeared in 337 sets. She's also 98 digs away from 1500.   Senior Nicole Klucharich is three games away from 60 and six points away from 300 for her career. She's also close to setting new season-best marks for kills (best is 94 and she has 88 so far this year) and points (best is 105.5 and she has 103 so far this year).   Senior Lily Hidalgo , like Bernis, is seven games away from 100. She's also sitting at 835.5 points.  *Hidalgo's been on the team since 2021.  Senior Chase Vaigneur is just six games away from 90 for her career. 

Senior defender Morgan Kasel appeared in her sixty-third game on Saturday against UNC Pembroke to tie the NCAA-era career record for women's soccer. Heading into Tuesday's game, she's tied with alum Sydney Baird, who recorded her sixty-three games between 2013 and 2016. 

The next competition for Emily Bush and the North Georgia women's tennis team will actually be the UNG/YHC Hidden Duals, taking place Friday the 18th and Saturday the 19th of this month at the Bob & Gayle Nichols Tennis Complex.  *Interestingly enough, this will also be an Enchanted Valley return for another former Mountain Lion- Rodrigo Mendoza is now a graduate assistant for the Nighthawk women after four seasons (2020-4) with Young Harris.  The next competition for Luciana Bejarano and the Augusta women's tennis team will be two matches against Lander, next Friday (the 11th) and Saturday (the 12th) in Greenwood, South Carolina.  The next competition for Alexis Scarpinato and the Mercer women's soccer team will be Sunday at home against Virginia Military (2pm at Betts Stadium). 

In a previous post, I mentioned that Emily Bush is now on the North Georgia tennis team and that Luciana Bejarano is now on the Augusta tennis team. There's a third former Mountain Lion, this one from the soccer team, as Alexis Scarpinato is now a senior at Mercer. Through eleven games and 256 minutes for the Bears, Alexis has tallied two goals and an assist for five points.  *Alexis logged 3,495 minutes across forty-three games and her twenty-three goals is the NCAA-era women's soccer top mark for YHC.  

Singles Sophomore Viviana Gomez , in her fourth fall tournament and her twenty-eighth appearance overall, won her first-round match in straight sets but lost in the second round. Freshman Maud Scholten , in her second fall tournament, lost in the first round.  Junior Simone Mercier lost in three sets in the first round.  Sophomore Futaba Saibo , in her second fall tournament, picked up a three-set first-round win but lost in the second round.   Doubles Gomez/Mercier picked up a win in the first round but lost in the second round.  Saibo/Scholten also picked up a win in the first round but lost in the second round.  Mountain Lion Alums Luciana Bejarano, who competed in twenty-three dual matches for the Mountain Lions but who's now with Augusta, had a first-round bye but lost in the second round.  Emily Bush, who competed in forty-three dual matches for the Mountain Lions but who's now with North Georgia, won her first-round match in three sets but lost...

For sophomore Holly Ashford , it was her twenty-fifth appearance and second fall tournament. For her classmate Viviana Gomez , it was her twenty-seventh appearance and third fall tournament. 

After several seasons on the bench, senior defensive specialist Athena Constantinides made the first appearance of her Mountain Lion career on Sunday, appearing in one set.  Several women's tennis players made their Mountain Lion debuts at the season-opening YHC Invite: sophomore Futaba Saibo , freshman Maud Scholten , sophomore Andreia Semeano and junior Callie Stanfield .