The Sergeant Bluff-Luton High School girls’ tennis team will send an individual and doubles team to the Class 1A state tournament after capturing regional titles while Sioux City North will send an individual and Bishop Heelan a doubles team after runner-up efforts at their 2A regional sites.
Sergeant Bluff-Luton’s Camryn Glass won the championship at Class 1A Region 8 in straight sets, 6-0, 6-2, defeating Megan Lausen of Estherville Lincoln Central.
A sophomore, Glass was the Iowa High School Tennis Class 1A Girls Freshman of the Year last season after she qualifier for state and finished the season with an 18-7 record.
This season, Glass is 19-2 thus far in Pos. 1 matches.
SB-L doubles tandem of Carley Rooney and Stella Britton also qualified for state out of 1A Region 8, and Spencer will send a team after a runner-up effort by the Tigers’ Kennedy Graettinger and Brynn Merchant.
Individually, Rooney owns a 9-2 record this season playing in Pos. 2 for SB-L while Britton is 10-1 in Pos. 3 matches 1-0 in her lone Pos. 2 match.
Graettinger is 9-0 this season from Pos. 2 in the Spencer individual lineup while Merchant is 8-0 in Pos. 3 matches as well as 1-0 from Pos. 2 as the duo combined to make a return trip to state in doubles competition.
Though both doubles teams were guaranteed a trip to state by reaching the regional final, Rooney and Britton won the match after battling back from losing the first set (1-6, 6-0, 6-3).
Kate Kelly and Maria Ernesti of Bishop Heelan will head to the Class 2A doubles state tournament after the duo was runner-up to Boone’s Kaylee Keuhl and Livi Schneider. The final in the regional title match was 6-3, 6-2.
As sophomores last year, Ernesti and Kelly were Missouri River Activities Conference doubles champs, beating SB-L team of Britton and Brooke Hanson for the conference crown.
As individuals this season, Ernesti is 11-0 in Pos. 2 matches and Kelly is 8-2 in Pos. 3 matches.
In Class 2A Region 3 in Johnston, North senior Jaden Brower qualified for state with a second-place performance in reaching the regional final, where she lost to Dowling Catholic’s Victoria Bakros, 6-3, 6-1.
Brower finished last season with a 16-4 record as a junior.
The individual and doubles state tournament is a two-day event that runs on Oct. 1 and 2. The Class 1A tournament is at Hawkeye Tennis and Rec Center in Iowa City while the 2A state tournament is at Black Hawk Tennis Club/Byrnes Park in Waterloo.
After the dust settles on the individual tournament, attention will go to the team state tournament, which runs on Oct. 6 and 7. The 1A team tournament will be in Pella and the 2A team tournament is in Waukee this year.
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