Sep. 5—WILLMAR — Rocori swept the Willmar girls tennis team in a Central Lakes Conference matchup on Thursday.
The Spartans, who had five two-set victories, improved to 2-2 in conference play and are 6-6 overall. Willmar is 0-3 in the conference and 0-8 overall.
“Rocori is always good,” Willmar head coach Cayle Hovland said. “Our girls, they could’ve done better.”
Willmar had two of its singles players compete in a third set. Kennedy Mara, a junior at No. 1 singles, fell to Rocori’s Autumn Kron. Mara won the first set 6-3 before Kron took the next two sets with a 6-1 victory in both. The Spartans’ Emma Jenniges beat Juliette Haugen, a sophomore at No. 3 singles, winning 6-0, 4-6, 10-5.
Willmar hosts Alexandria for another CLC meet at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday at Willmar.
Emma Wuotila and Marcella Bruning picked up singles wins for the Dragons in their loss to Holy Family Catholic at Victoria.
Wuotila, a sophomore at No. 3 singles, beat Holy Family Catholic’s Hadey Holcomb in straight sets, 6-1, 7-5. Bruning, a freshman at No. 4 singles, defeated the Fire’s Madison Endress in two sets, 6-2, 6-2.
Litchfield next competes against Buffalo and the St. Cloud Crush in the St. Cloud triangular on Saturday. The Dragons play Buffalo at 10 a.m. and the Crush at 11:30 a.m.
Lac qui Parle Valley/Dawson-Boyd swept the singles matches en route to a win against Morris/Chokio-Alberta/West Central Area at Morris.
Hannah Oie, Kayla Jahn, Elsie Wiebe and Alexis Olesen earned wins at Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4 singles for LQPV/D-B. Jahn won her match in three sets, winning 4-6, 7-6 and 6-3.
LQPV/D-B goes to Montevideo at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Minnewaska cruised past Sauk Centre to earn a conference victory at Glenwood.
Alia Randt, Megan Thorfinnson, Avarie Uhde and Kaylen Blair all won matches at Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4 singles for the Lakers. Olivia Danielson and Rachel Rankin won at No. 1 doubles, Katy Vold and Addy Heid won at No. 2 doubles and Katie Sorenson and Mckenna Uhde earned a win at No. 3 doubles.
All of Minnewaska’s victories came in straight sets.
The Lakers next compete in the Pine City quadrangular, alongside New London-Spicer. That begins at 9 a.m. Saturday at Pine City.
All seven of the Thunder Hawks’ points were won behind straight set wins at Montevideo.
Brooke Lindeman, Ashley Klaassen, Avery Albrecht and Carlee Axford picked up singles victories for Montevideo.
The duos of Gwyn Smiens and Lily Eisenlohr, Megan Macziewski and Hallie Helgeson, and Kylie Johnson and Teagan Epema secured doubles wins for the Thunder Hawks.
Montevideo takes on Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa at 4 p.m. Monday at Belgrade.
The Nos. 1 and 2 doubles matches went into third sets before Yellow Medicine East secured a sweep of MACCRAY at Clara City.
YME’s Breea Johnson and Brooklynn Howe won 2-6, 6-1 and 7-5 against the Wolverines’ Ava Janssen and Ellie Bosch at No. 1 doubles. The Sting’s Carley Redepenning and Kyla Smith won 6-4, 5-7 and 7-5 against MACCRAY’s Lilyanne Pauling and Haven Osterfeld.
MACCRAY next plays Melrose at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday at Clara City. YME plays host to Marshall at 4:30 p.m. Monday at Granite Falls.
