Sept. 12 — LITCHFIELD — The No. 4 Litchfield girls tennis team continued its strong week.
The Dragons beat New London-Spicer 6-1 on Thursday afternoon.
Litchfield won the singles matches. Isla Dille, Maya Wuotila, Emma Wuotila and Marcella Bruning all won the No. 1, 2, 3 and 4 singles matches.
The NLS point came from its No. 2 doubles pair, Heidi Taunton and Averie Turner. Taunton and Turner defeated Dragons Brynn Nagel and Tayah Damerow in three sets (6-4, 7-5).
The Dragons host Annandale at 4 p.m. Tuesday in Litchfield. NLS travels to Willmar at 4:30 p.m. Monday.
The St. Cloud Crush swept Willmar to improve to 6-0 in the Central Lakes Conference and 11-1 overall at St. Cloud Tech High School.
One of the seven matches went to the third set. St. Cloud’s Bella Newbauer beat the Cardinals’ Emily Floren 6-4, 2-6, 10-6 at third singles.
Willmar (0-5 CLC, 0-10 overall) next plays in the Big Lake Quadrangular on Saturday. The Cardinals will face Big Lake, North Branch and Roseau.
The No. 3-ranked Minnewaska Lakers in Class A quickly defeated the Melrose Dutch at Glenwood.
Alia Randt, Olivia Danielson, Kaylen Blair and Megan Thorfinnson earned singles victories at Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4 for Minnewaska. Avarie Uhde and Rachel Rankin, Katy Vold and Addy Heid, and McKenna Uhde and Katie Sorenson earned victories for the Lakers.
Minnewaska will then play a triangular game against Alexandria and Wadena-Deer Creek at 10:30 a.m. Saturday in Glenwood.
Lac qui Parle Valley/Dawson-Boyd swept the singles matches before defeating the Wolverines in Clara City.
Hannah Oie, Kayla Jahn, Elsie Wiebe and Alexis Olesen each won for LQPV/DB.
MACCRAY’s No. 2 doubles pair Ava Janssen and Lilyanne Pauling won 6-2, 6-3.
LQPV/DB will then travel to Glenwood to face Minnewaska at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday. MACCRAY will then host Marshall at 4:30 p.m. Monday in Clara City.
Yellow Medicine East’s singles players all won their matches in three sets to help the Sting secure a victory at the Sauk Centre.
Brianna Nelson, Emma Keller, Sarana West and Abigail Jimenez won at No. 1, 2, 3 and 4 singles.
YME’s No. 2 doubles team of Carley Redepenning and Kyla Smith won 6-1, 6-1 over Keely Klein and Emily Wojtanowitz of Sauk Centre.
YME hosts Marshall at 4 p.m. Friday in Granite Falls.
