Longtime coach Howard Madsen thinks his Southern Regional High School girls tennis team should improve on what was a tough 2017 season.

Last year’s campaign was expected to be a rather hard row considering the team had lost six of its 2016 starters to graduation, including first singles starter Kristina Pineno, who had compiled a sparkling 19-0 dual match record in her senior year and was the first seed in the Ocean County Tournament but had to drop out in the title match after suffering an…