Tennis
Girls tennis roundup: No. 3 Minnewaska sweeps MACCRAY; No. 10 Osakis topples New London-Spicer
The Minnewaska girls tennis team, who is ranked No. 3 in Class A, earned a dominant 7-0 win over MACCRAY on Thursday over Morris Area-Chokio-Alberta-West Central Area.
Minnewaska is now 17-3 on the year.
Minnewaska plays at the West Central Conference meet at Alexandria High School at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday.
Minnewaska 7, New London-Spicer 0
No. 1 – Alia Randt (M) def. Nora Meek (MACAWCA) 6-0, 6-1
No. 2 – Megan Thorfinnson (M) def. Lydia Sweep (MACAWCA) 6-2, 3-6, 6-0
No. 3 – Olivia Danielson (M) def. Ruby Lhotka (MACAWCA) 6-0, 6-1
No. 4 – Kaylen Blair (M) def. Maggie Knobloch (MACAWCA) 6-1, 6-2
No. 1 – Avarie Uhde/Rachel Rankin (M) def. Izabell Hoffman/Grace Hauglie (MACAWCA) 6-1, 6-1
No. 2 – Katy Vold/Addy Heid (M) def. Ellen Reed/Heidi Seales (MACAWCA) 6-2, 6-3
No. 3 – Katie Sorenson/McKenna Uhde (M) def. Lilia Asmus/Allison Nohl (MACAWCA) 6-1, 6-0
Osakis sweeps singles matches against New London-Spicer
10th-ranked Osakis (Class A) went 4-0 in singles matches on Tuesday in its match against New London-Spicer.
Osakis went on to win 5-2 on Sept. 24.
Osakis is now 12-5 on the year.
Osakis plays at Staples-Motley at 4 p.m. on Thursday.
Osakis 5, New London-Spicer 2
No. 1 – Leah Maddock (O) def. Amyra Gomez (NLS) 6-0, 6-0
No. 2 – Bella Weisser (O) def. Brooke Glauvitz (NLS) 7-6 (3), 6-0
No. 3 – Ava Drevlow (O) def. Emma Freliand (NLS) 7-5, 7-5
No. 4 – Faith Schmidtbauer (O) def. Leia Farhat (NLS) 6-1, 7-6 (2)
No. 1 – Jaclyn Dietrich/Maddi Bouldin (O) def. Addilyn Nelson/Jadyn Proehl (NLS) 6-3, 6-4
No. 2 – Heidi Taunton/Averie Turner (NLS) def. Morgan Baker/Mataya Moore (O) 6-2, 6-2
No. 3 – Erin Pederson/Olivia Paffrath (NLS) def. Payton Drum/Mackenzie Steele (O) 4-6, 6-2, 7-5
EXTRA – Lexy Marthaler/Annie Anderson (O) def. Danica Pederson/Maddi Prentice (NLS) 6-4, 6-2
Parkers Prairie gets its fifth win of the year
The Parkers Prairie Panthers improved to 5-10 on the year with a 4-3 win over Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa on Tuesday.
Parkers Prairie won a pair of singles matches, and a pair of doubles matches on Sept. 24.
Parkers Prairie plays at Morris Area-Chokio-Alberta-West Central Area on Thursday at 4 p.m.
Parkers Prairie 4, Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa 3
No. 1 – Sophie Pfeffer (PP) def. Hannah Hirman (BBE) 6-2, 6-2
No. 2 – Bree Thieschafer (BBE) def. Cailin Jensen (PP) 6-3, 7-6
No. 3 – Izzy Graham (BBE) def. Izzy Langager (PP) 6-3, 6-2
No. 4 – Hattie Truax (PP) def. Skylar Knight-DeWeerd (BBE) 6-1, 6-2
No. 1 – Anna Helling/Brooke Schilling (PP) def. Grace Berndt/Ellan Fischer (BBE) 6-1, 6-1
No. 2 – Arlene Tensen/Kylie Zins (BBE) def. Joanna Krueger/Abigail Koep (PP) 6-3, 6-2
No. 3 – McKayla Vogt/Linn Gretzinger (PP) def. Olive Olson/Hannah Wurm (BBE) 6-2, 6-4
Sam Stuve covers a variety of sports in the Douglas County area. He also is assigned to do some news stories as well.