By ERIC RUEB
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NORTH KINGSTOWN – Playing at No. 3 doubles, cousins Isabel O’Brien and Megan O’Brien don’t get a chance to play a lot of complete matches.
It has nothing to do with the duo’s abilities. By the time the two usually hit the court, a winner has been decided and the temperature has dropped 15 degrees, so No. 3 plays a full first set, then a super tiebreak for the second and third, if needed.
Tuesday was a different scenario.
“I told them at the beginning,” NK coach Jacques Faulise said, “… we won’t need to do that because we need you to finish the match.”
And as much as they tried to avoid the score between the teams, Isabel and Megan knew what was on the line and came through for the Skippers, winning their match 6-2, 6-3, giving NK a much-needed win over Prout.
“We’ve only won twice,” said Isabel about NK, who’s only two wins prior to Tuesday we against South Kingstown, “so it’s good to beat another school.”
“It was a huge one against them and this was an important match for us in that last year we won two matches,” Faulise said, “so now we won one more than last year, which is great for us, kind of a goal to win at least one more.”

For more, read the 10/15 edition of the Standard