Two Crookston Pirate seniors, Addie Fee and Kaylie Clauson, compete in the Minnesota State Individual Tennis tournament today at Reed Sweatt Family Tennis Center in Minneapolis.
THURSDAY RESULTS-
The Pirate duo earned the #4 seed in the tournament and played Macy Sohre and Kelsey Jaeger of Maple River. The Maple River duo won a good battle in the first set by a 6-4 score. They continued to play well and beat Fee and Clauson 6-1 in the second set.
Fee and Clauson will advance to the consolation bracket and beat Tali Bellefy and Meg Santini (Holy Family) 6-3, 6-4.
FRIDAY RESULTS –
Clauson and Fee played #1 seed Camila Pardo and Nora Ibrani (Blake School) in the consolation semi-finals. The Pirate duo won the first set in impressive fashion with a 6-2 victory. Blake bounced back to win the second set 6-3 to force a third set. Since it is a consolation match, they played a third set tie-break with the first to 10, and leading by two points would win the match. Clauson and Fee came out strong and cruised to a 10-1 victory to advance to the Consolation Championship where they will get a rematch with Wadena-Deer Creek’s Anna Fiemeyer and Kaylee Endres, who beat them in the Section 8A Doubles semi-finals.
In the Consolation Championship, Fiemeyer and Endres came out strong and won the first set 6-1. The Wolverine duo continued their impressive play as they won the second set 6-2 and Fee and Clauson finished sixth place at state.
Other Section 8A Individual results –
SINGLES –
Braylee Wienen (TRF) beat Brooke Lindeman (Montevideo) 6-4, 7-6 (7-4). In the quarter-finals, Wienen lost to #1 seed Chloe Alley of Minnehaha Academy 6-1, 6-1 and was eliminated.
Ronnie Noska (Staples-Motley) lost to #3 seed Casey Cronin (Holy Family) 6-0, 6-4. In the consolation quarter-finals, Noska beat Lydia Sweep (Morris) 6-0, 6-1. Noska beat Tabitha Barkosky (Maple River) 6-4, 6-0 in the consolation semi-finals. Noska lost to Brooke Boland (Pine City) 6-1, 6-1 in the consolation championship to finish sixth place.
DOUBLES –
#2 seed Anna Fiemeyer/Kaylee Endres (Wadena-Deer Creek) lost to Vivian Lahti/Kate Unverzagt (Pine City) 7-5, 6-3. In the consolation quarter-finals, Fiemeryer and Endres beat Alicia Haack and Vivian Brockberg (Pipestone) 7-6 (9-7), 6-1. Fiemeyer and Endres beat Lydia Sparby and Kayla Streich (Belle Plaine) 6-4, 7-6 (7-1) in the consolation semi-finals. They beat Kaylie Clauson and Addie Fee (Crookston) 6-1, 6-2 to win the consolation championship.
