Red Oak tennis splits meet against Atlantic
RED OAK — The Red Oak tennis teams split their meets against Atlantic.
It was the girls who picked up their first shutout of the season as they won 9-0 over Atlantic.
All the matches were one set to eight games.
Grace Blomstedt was the No. 1 seed for the meet as she defeated Codi Hitch 8-0. Micayla Taylor also scored a shutout thanks to her 8-0 win over Grace Jacob. MaKayla LeRette at No. 5 had the third shutout win as she defeated Bailey Steffens.
Sarah Behrens won 8-1 over Jena Brosam, while Jordyn Cornelison defeated Olivia Davis by the same score. Tannah Halvin got her first varsity win with an 8-1 victory against Sydney Redler.
In doubles, two of the three wins were by an 8-1 score. Blomstedt and Taylor defeated Hitch and Jacob 8-1. Behrens and Cornelison had the other 8-1 win, defeating Brosam and Davis.
LeRette and Halvin completed the sweep with an 8-2 win against Steffens and Redler.
The boys, meanwhile, lost 6-3 at home to the Trojans.
All three wins for Red Oak came in singles. Keatis Kunze had the first win and had to go to a third set super tiebreaker. Kunze won the first set 7-6 (7-5), but lost the second set to Grant Podhajsky 6-3. The third set super tiebreaker was 13-11 in favor of Kunze.
Jesse Taylor picked up another win as he won 6-1 and 6-4 over Cooper McDermott. Sean Griffen won the final match as he defeated Luke Hohenberger 6-4 and 6-2.
Red Oak vs. Clarinda
The two teams split another meet against Clarinda last Tuesday. The girls were home as they won two out of three doubles to get the 5-4 win.
The clinching win came in No. 1 doubles when Blomstedt and Taylor defeated Kayla Rogers and Sarah Cabeen 6-3 and 6-4. Kate Walker and Behrens had the other doubles win as they defeated Abby Brown and Emma Pullen 6-2 and 6-1.
In singles, Walker defeated Rogers 6-3 and 6-1, while Blomstedt defeated Cabeen 6-0 and 6-3. Taylor had the third win as she defeated Brown 6-1 and 6-2.
The boys meanwhile lost 6-3 to Clarinda. Taylor defeated Dallas Lathan 10-3, while Griffen won 10-3 over Tyler Luckado. In doubles, Taylor and Griffen defeated Lathan and Luckado 10-3.
Atlantic tournament
The Red Oak boys tennis team finished tied for fifth out of eight teams competing at the Atlantic Trojan Team Invitational Saturday Red Oak had 16 points, which tied them with Des Moines-Lincoln. Knoxville won the tournament with 28 points.
The Tigers had two fourth-place finishes and well as two sixth-place finishes at the meet.
In No. 1 singles, Smith took fourth.
The No. 2 doubles team of Taylor and Griffin also finished fourth at the tournament.
Torbett, who competed in No. 2 singles, finished sixth, while the No. 1 doubles team of Rolenc and Kunze also took sixth.
Regional Team Pairings Released
With the postseason drawing closer, the regional team tennis pairings were released by the IGHSAU Thursday. Red Oak will be in Region 2 of the tournament. Their regional quarterfinal match will take place in Atlantic May 16 as they face the Atlantic Trojanns at 9 a.m. The winner of the meet plays the winner of Clarinda and Southwest Valley later in the afternoon in Atlantic.
The regional final will take place in Shenandoah May 23.