CROOKSTON BOYS TENNIS BEAT DELANO, FALLS TO ALEXANDRIA AND MONTICELLO

The Crookston Pirate Boys Tennis team continues a busy weekend as they play three matches in the Alexandria Quadrangular today. Crookston will play Delano, Monticello and Alexandria.

CROOKSTON VS DELANO-
Isaac Thomforde continued to make quick work of his opponents this season as he cruised to a 6-1, 6-0 victory at first singles. The next match completed was at fourth singles, where Crookston’s Alex Zammert, who is playing his first year of varsity tennis, continued to battle but ran into a tough opponent and lost 6-1, 6-0, and the team score was 1-1.
The match was tied the rest of the way. Crookston won second singles with Reggie Winjum cruising to a 6-1, 6-2 victory. Sam Widseth picked up a big win by cruising to a 6-1, 6-0 victory, giving Crookston three wins out of the four singles matches.
In doubles, two of the three went to third-set tie-breakers, creating some exciting tennis. At first doubles, Delano won the first set 6-1, but Crookston’s duo of Grant Funk and Jack Everett battled back to win the second set 6-3 to force a third set super tie-breaker. It was a back-and-forth third set with a race to 10, and you have to win by two. Delano was able to outlast the Pirates and won the tie-breaker 11-9. The third doubles match was just like the first one. This time, Crookston’s Colton Osborn and Tim Brule won the first set 6-4. Delano won the second set 6-3, forcing a third set tie-breaker. Delano won the set 10-5 and that made the team score 3-3. The second doubles team of Caden Boike and Gunnar Groven played a solid match and coasted to a 6-1, 6-2 victory and Crookston won the team portion by a 4-3 score. 

CROOKSTON VS MONTICELLO-
The Pirates ran into a tough Monticello Magic team and lost 6-1. The lone win came at first singles with Isaac Thomforde winning an exciting 7-5 first set, and in the second set, it was even closer with Isaac winning 7-6, 7-4 in the tie-breaker. Thomforde remains undefeated on the season.
Sam Widseth battled at third singles and played well but came up a little short in a 6-3, 6-3 loss. The third doubles team lost the first set 6-2 before battling back-and-forth in the second set. Colton Osborn and Tim Brule battled, but came up short in an exciting 7-6 loss. 

CROOKSTON VS ALEXANDRIA-
Crookston wrapped up a long day of tennis by taking on the Alexandria Cardinals. Crookston came up short in a 5-2 loss. Crookston’s wins came at first singles with Isaac Thomforde winning his match 6-1, 6-1 to improve to 8-0 on the year. The other win came at second singles with Reggie Winjum winning the first set 6-0, and won a more competitive second set 6-4.
Alexandria controlled the rest of the matches and came away with the 5-2 victory. 

Crookston is now 4-4 on the year.