Lakeland Girls Tennis Opens Season with Shutout of Merrill

 

LAKELAND – 7, MERRILL HIGH – 0,

Merrill got their first varsity match of the year in tonight.  Lakeland was as good as they were last year.  Even some of their jv players had fast first serves.  Lauren Belsky looked good for her first match of the year at number one singles.  As a team we made too many errors that we normally do not make.  We had really good shots from everyone tonight but the errors did us in the end.  I want to mention Addison Pickard and Claire Hintz also.  They played jv number one doubles and they were as impressive as the varsity team tonight.  They lost 8-5 in an 8 game pro-set.

Thanks to Merrill Head Tennis Coach Brad Barton for the meet summary

Singles:
No. 1 – Sarah Barton, LAKELAND def. Lauren Belsky, MERRILL HIGH, 6-0 , 6-0 , -;
No. 2 – Norah Strassburg, LAKELAND def. Kaytlyn Hulke, MERRILL HIGH, 6-0 , 6-0 , -;
No. 3 – Elise Lamers, LAKELAND def. Rose Dornbrack, MERRILL HIGH, 6-1 , 6-0 , -;
No. 4 – Sam Bridgewater, LAKELAND def. Johanna Dahlke, MERRILL HIGH, 6-0 , 6-1 , -;

Doubles:
No. 1 – Savannah Barton, LAKELAND – Kristina Ouimette, LAKELAND def. Chloe Belant, MERRILL HIGH – Emily Frahm, MERRILL HIGH, 6-1 , 6-0 , -;
No. 2 – Charley Cleveland, LAKELAND – Ali Timmerman, LAKELAND def. Korina Kraegenbrink, MERRILL HIGH – Jenna Malluege, MERRILL HIGH, 6-0 , 6-0 , -;
No. 3 – Alyssa Erickson, LAKELAND – Lila Biller, LAKELAND def. Parker Wagenaar, MERRILL HIGH – Maycie Zastrow, MERRILL HIGH, 6-0 , 6-0 , -;

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