Bigfork Tennis starts season against Glacier

The Glacier and Bigfork tennis teams locked up in a tight battle on Tuesday night, splitting a pair of matches.

The girls ended in a deadlock as Bigfork’s Alauna Weilacher and Kalia Wicklund and Glacier’s Juli Cecil, Holly McDonald and Gabbie Ruis all won singles matches. The two sides also split in doubles to end the night tied 4-4.

The Glacier boys won a pair of doubles titles to edge Bigfork 4-3. The teams of Sam Stern and Kyler Harkins and Chazz Upton and Matt LaGrandeur each won 6-0, 6-0 to give the Wolfpack the win after the sides split the singles matches.

GIRLS

Glacier 4, Bigfork 4

Singles–Alauna Weilacher, B, def. Amber Hamblin, 6-3, 6-1; Kalia Wicklund, B, def. Miranda Hoffman 6-4, 7-5; Julia Cecil, G, def. Alex Hider 6-1, 6-2; Holly McDonald, G, def. Stacy Poulson 6-0, 6-2; Gabbie Ruis, G, def. Alauna Weilacher 8-5.

Doubles–Alannis Stallknecht and Brooke Bonner, B, def. Gabbie Ruis and Natalie Newberry 6-2, 6-0; Alannis Stallknecht and Brooke Bonner, B, def. Anna Cecil and Caitlin Ward 6-2, 7-6 (5); Berta Jover-Llorens and Maya Buckingham, G, def. Karlee Parti and Kassandra Butterfield 6-1, 6-0.

BOYS

Glacier 4, Bigfork 3

Singles– Adam Jordt, B, def. Eli Hertlein, 6-2,1-6,1-0, (7); Isaac Martel, B, def. Keanan Brown 6-1, 6-1; Ben Griesser, G, def. Gunnar Boose 6-0, 7-5; Grant Germann, G, def. Mack Paine 6-0, 6-0.

Doubles–Adam Jordt and Isacc Martel, B, def. Holland Blalack and Ben Wright 4-6, 6-2, 1-0 (7); Sam Stern and Kyler Harkins, G, def. Kyle Thompson and Jorge Zavala 6-0, 6-0; Chazz Upton and Matt LaGrandeur, G, def. Noah Van Queckelberg and (not listed) 6-0, 6-0.