V-I-C-T-O-R-Y!!!

If you thought that you heard an unexplained shrill around 4:00 Saturday afternoon in Madison County...well...it was the PHHS tennis team! They are the Madison County Champs for 2009!! They played Highland in the morning and won 3-2 and then had to play the defending champions, Anderson High School, and won 5-0!!! I am so proud of this team. They now have an undefeated record of 5-0!!!

Here are Evan and Graham being introduced before the Highland match. Evan plays number one doubles with Zack and Graham plays number 2 singles.

After the Highland win the team takes a lunch break and hangs out until the final match against Anderson.

Captains Matt and Evan are warming up the team.

I love this picture! The boys are running with their coach (he is in the middle). Royce is not demanding and not on a "power trip". He doesn't say, "Get out there and run!" instead, he will say, "Let's go out and run the track and warm up" and he leads the way. The boys really respect him and love it when he does the workouts with them. He is a good Christian man and it is so refreshing to see positive growth in the boys this year!! They are no longer individuals...rather, they are a team!


Here is Evan doing what Evan does so well...being loud and pumping up his team! He takes the captain position seriously and I love him for that:)

One last huddle...GO ARABIANS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And I love this man!! He is giving me the victory sign after Matt comes off the court. At this point all of our singles have won their matches so Todd knows PHHS has clinched the title!

Way to go Zack and Evan!! They won in a super tie breaker!

This is Brett and Graham. Brett is Graham's best tennis buddy but, he plays for Anderson and that is when it gets hard. Pendleton has already won at this point and they are just waiting for number two doubles to finish up their win. But,they are still best buds!

Arabian Power!!!! 2009 MADISON COUNTY CHAMPIONS!!!!

Mammy and Paps with their boys! Can you tell how proud they are?!

Todd and Matt...he saw you Matt! You better be careful...

The celebration continued at the Dairy Queen...of course!!!

What a day! These boys will remember this day for a long time...and so will I!

And so will the coaches. Can't you just hear them now..."Can you believe it...we are the county champs! How did that happen!!! I don't know, but I'm glad it did!"