The Section 8A Girls Tennis tournament will be loaded again this year, with three ranked teams and two in the top four! The seeds went pretty much as expected, and the team tournament starts on Thursday, October 10, at Fargo Courts Plus. The seeds and schedule are below.
Team Seeds –
1. Perham (Unanimous)
2. Crookston
3. Thief River Falls
4. Staples-Motley
5. Park Rapids
6. East Grand Forks
7. Roseau
8. Wadena-Deer Creek
9. Parkers Prairie
TEAM SCHEDULE
First-Round/Play-in – Thursday, October 10 at Fargo Courts Plus
9:00 a.m. – Wadena-Deer Creek vs Parkers Prairie (Play-in match)
10:30 a.m. – #4 Staples-Motley vs #5 Park Rapids
Noon – #1 Perham vs the play-in winner
1:30 p.m. – #2 Crookston vs #7 Roseau
3:00 p.m. – #3 Thief River Falls vs #6 East Grand Forks
Semi-Finals (Thursday, October 10)
4:30 p.m. – Staples-Motley/Park Rapids winner vs Perham/play-in winner
6:00 p.m. – Crookston/Roseau winner vs TRF/EGF winner
CHAMPIONSHIP (Friday, October 11)
10:00 a.m. –
INDIVIDUAL SEEDS – (Tournament starts Friday, October 11 after the team championship and continues Saturday.)
Crookston’s Paige Abrahamson was seeded 6th in singles and teammate Ava Martin was the 13th seed.
In doubles, the Pirates Addie Fee and Kaylee Clauson are the number 2 seed and Georgia Sanders and Ashlyn Bailey were seeded 8th.
The top two singles players and top two doubles pairs will advance to the State Individual Tournament in Minneapolis along with the Section’s Team Champion.
SINGLES –
1. Ronnie Noska (SM)
2. Ruby Leach (EGF)
3. Kaia Anderson (Per)
4. Braylee Wienen (TRF)
5. Ella Ehler (PR)
6. Paige Abrahamson (Crox)
7, Anna Lunsetter (TRF)
8. Karlee Walsh (EGF)
9. Nora Bolton (PR)
10. Corrine Olson (SM)
11. Bailey Strunk (Ros)
12. Autumn Branchaud (Perham)
13. Ava Martin (Crox)
14. Sophie Pfeffer (PP)
15. Dakota Dunham (Ros)
16. Charli Snyder (WDC)
17. Cailin Jensen (PP)
18. Lydia Helmbrect (WDC)
DOUBLES –
1. Piper Green/Brianne Ellison (TRF)
2. Kaylie Clauson/Addie Fee (Crox)
3. Annna Fiemeyer/Kaylee Endres (WDC)
4. Morgan Smith/Aubrey Zimmerman (Per)
5. Abbey Runyan/Emmy Goochey (PR)
6. Violet Radniecki/Alayna Moe (Per)
7. Heidi Zimmerman/Madison Perius (SM)
8. Georgia Sanders/Ashlyn Bailey (Crox)
9. Natalie Hanson/Kaylee Perius (SM)
10. Anna Lunsetter/Kaitlyn Kruse (TRF)
11. Anna Helling/Brooke Schilling (PP)
12. Lindsey Vistad/Abby Swanson (Ros)
13. Morgan McDonald/Chloe Svenson (EGF)
14. Bryn Wilson/Ava Holmgren (Ros)
15. Rachel Ulvin/Kate Dravis (PR)
16. Maya Pulkrabek/Madi Wallace (EGF)
17. Sadie Leeseberg/Emma Weinger (WDC)
18. Izzy Langager/Abigal Koep (PP)
