Raider Tennis Over Lansing Catholic 6-2

Portland played their first league meet at Lansing Catholic Wednesday night. Every single match was close throughout the night and three of the matches went to a 3rd set. We ended up winning 6-2 but it easily could have gone the other way. I've been stressing to the team all season long that consistency is the key to winning tennis matches. The first signs of that paying off showed tonight. I thought the players on both teams were pretty evenly matched. We didn't win it by hitting better shots. We just managed to keep that one more ball in play. Jorgen Sonday exemplified this. He may have just barely lost his match, but boy did he keep one more ball in play. (For about 2 hours and 45 minutes.) Portland will play again in their last quad of the year Saturday at home.

PORTLAND HIGH SCHOOL 6, LANSING CATHOLIC 2

Singles

No. 1 - Aryan Virk, PORTLAND HIGH SCHOOL def. Jack Hadley, LANSING CATHOLIC , 6-3, 6-4, -;

No. 2 - Jack Roe, PORTLAND HIGH SCHOOL def. Aspen Robart, LANSING CATHOLIC , 6-2, 7-5, -;

No. 3 - Joey Castle, LANSING CATHOLIC def. Ryan Leonard, PORTLAND HIGH SCHOOL, 6-4, 6-1, -;

No. 4 - Janek Levandowski, LANSING CATHOLIC def. Jorgen Sonday, PORTLAND HIGH SCHOOL, 6-7 (3), 6-1, 7-5;

Doubles

No. 1 - Gabe Hankey - Marty Thelen, PORTLAND HIGH SCHOOL def. Ethan Bassilla - Charlie Ramont, LANSING CATHOLIC , 6-1, 7-5, -;

No. 2 - Kurt Kraczon - Alex Russman, PORTLAND HIGH SCHOOL def. Adam Durr - Quinn Kuhnert, LANSING CATHOLIC , 6-3, 6-2, -;

No. 3 - Joe Lorenz - Cadin Cross, PORTLAND HIGH SCHOOL def. Evan Foster - Nickolas Migaldi, LANSING CATHOLIC , 6-3, 5-7, 6-1;

No. 4 - Kai Kipp - Casey Smith, PORTLAND HIGH SCHOOL def. Nick Jurkovic - Christian Rule, LANSING CATHOLIC , 7-5, 1-6, 6-1;