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Rosen, Plant have the end in sight

 
Published April 28, 1998|Updated Sept. 13, 2005

You wouldn't have thought Plant's Leslie Rosen needed anyone to tell her that time was running out on her high school tennis career. She was a senior. She was at state. She split the first two sets of her opening match.

But after losing a contact lens in the second set, Rosen needed more time. Thing was, nobody told her how much time she could have before starting the third set as her parents went to find her spare contacts at the team's hotel room.

After 15 minutes, an official said Rosen's time was up and she would have to default. The decision was later overturned by a jury of coaches, and Rosen lost the third set 7-5.

But it was a situation that typified Plant's day _ the Panthers, in sixth place, aren't going to win state, but they'll go down fighting. That's something Rosen, who fell to Ocala Forest's Alyson Stalzer, wanted to make sure of.

"(The referee) said we could have "reasonable time,' " Rosen said. "She didn't say exactly how much time. I would have played without (the contact) if she had said something.

"(But) I was glad that I at least got a chance to play."

Rosen and her teammate at No. 1 doubles, Erin Resnick, can still win a title. They and the No. 2 team of Paula Fillion and Christina Drenberg (subbing for the ill Laura Gill), play in today's semifinals.

Fillion (No. 2) and Drenberg (No. 5) won first-round singles matches before falling in the semifinals.