Clear Lake girls tennis team picks up two more wins

The Clear Lake girls tennis team notched two more victories las week, improving their record to 3-1.

CL 5, Osage 4

The Lions recorded a tight 5-4 victory over Osage in a match played Tuesday, April 15, in 38-degree weather.  Due to the cold the teams agreed to play eight game pro-sets with no advantage.

Clear Lake dropped its first four singles matches but got on track with wins in the number five and six singles positions by Kirsten Jordan and Hailey Grell. 

The Lions then swept the doubles.  Two of the doubles matches were close battles.  After Alexis Atkinson and Courtney Anderson won their match, 8-3, the fate of the meet rested on the next two matches. Lindsey Loudenburg and Kylie Bottjen won a close, intense match by an 8-6 score, tying the overall team score at 4-4.  Kirsten Jordan and Miranda Mundt battled down to the wire and eventually won on a 7-3 tiebreaker, 9-8.

“We had a lot of close matches.   However, our doubles teams stepped up and made the difference today,” said Coach Mary Jo Peterson.  “The team of Jordan and Mundt refused to give up in a deciding tiebreaker.”

Singles

Katie Plotzke (O) over Alexis Atkinson, 8-6

Amber Schwarting (O) over Lindsey Loudenburg, 8-3

Alice Solberg (O) over Kylie Bottjen, 8-2

Klaire Chisholm (O) over Courtney Anderson, 8-4

Kirsten Jordan over Natasha Weiland, 8-3

Hailey Grell—Won  8-6

Doubles

Atkinson and Anderson over Solberg/Chisholm, 8-6

Loudenburg/Bottjen (CL) over Plotzke/Schwarting, 8-3

Kirsten Jordan/Miranda Mundt (CL) over Weiland/Nauman, 9-8 (7-3)

CL 9, H-D 0

The Clear Lake girls gave a young Hampton-Dumont team a lesson Thursday, April 17.  The Lions ruled their home court and blanked the Bulldogs, 9-0.

Singles

Atkinson (CL) over Brittany Bolerjack, 8-2

Loudenburg (CL) over Athena Levad, 8-0

Bottjen (CL) over Alysa Buck, 8-1

Anderson (CL) over Brooklyn Plagge, 8-2

Jordan (CL) over Beckad Christiansen, 8-0

Grell (CL) over Ciara Spradlin, 8-0

Doubles

Loudenbug/Bottjen (CL) over Bolerjack/Levad, 8-1

Atkinson/Anderson (CL) over Buck/Plagge, 8-0

Miranda Mundt/Jaci Ullrich (CL) over Christiansen/Spradlin, 8-3