On Tuesday, April 4, the Trojan tennis teams played the Carroll Kuemper Knights for their first meet of the 2017 season. The girl’s played the Knights at home, and were defeated 9-0. The boy’s traveled to Carroll and won 6-3.

In singles all the girls were defeated beginning with number one junior Heather Freund losing 1-8, number two senior Carly Westphalen 1-8, number three freshman Emma Templeton 1-8, number four freshman Chloe Davis 0-8, number five senior Ashley Freund 0-8, and number six freshman Hana Holtz 1-8.

In doubles, the number one duo of H. Freund and Westphalen lost 1-8, Templeton and Davis playing number two lost 1-8, and playing number three A. Freund and Holtz lost 1-8.

On the boys’ side, number one junior Grant Podhajsky lost 8-10, number two junior Cooper McDermott won 10-6, number three junior Kalob Flory lost 4-10, number four junior Luke Hohenberger won 10-6, number five senior Caleb Williams won 10-3, and number six freshman Nile Petersen won 10-1.

In doubles, number one- and last year’s State participants- Podhajsky and McDermott lost 8-10, playing number two Flory and Williams won 10-8, and the number three team of Hohenberger and Petersen won 10-7.

Both boy’s and girl’s teams play on Thursday, April 6, against Creston. The boy’s play at home, and the girl’s play in Creston.