The Rice Lake girls tennis team has advanced four flights to sectionals after competing in Monday's Division 2 subsectional at Baldwin-Woodville.
Rice Lake had Verca Skorpikova, Karlee Seifert and Julia Thompson qualify in singles play, while the No. 1 doubles team of Hannah Yeager and Paisley Alton also advanced.
To move on to sectionals the No. 1 singles and doubles flights have to reach the semifinals, while singles No. 2, 3 and 4, and doubles No. 2 and 3 must reach the finals of the bracket to reach sectionals.
Skorpikova advances to sectionals after winning her first-round match at No. 1 singles. The exchange student from Czech Republic won 6-0, 6-2 against Brooke McDonald of Osceola. The victory improved Skorpikova's record to 4-2 in singles play this year.
At No. 2 Seifert had little trouble winning two matches on the day to improve to 9-7 on the season. The junior earned a 6-1, 6-0 victory over Ayden Flaherty of Mondovi and then defeated Amery's Charlotte Stewart 6-0, 6-1.
Thompson was also a two-time winner on the day and is now 6-12 this year. She took down Bloomer's Lacie Grant 7-6 (5) and 6-2, and in the semifinals the Rice Lake senior earned a 6-2, 6-0 win over Baldwin-Woodville's Katie Kroening.
At No. 1 doubles seniors Yeager and Alton needed one win to keep their season going, and they did just that, defeating Barron's Zoey Frandsen and Graycin Miller 7-5, 6-2. Playing doubles together, Yeager and Alton are 3-11.
Having their season come to a conclusion were Halle Husak at No. 3 singles, the No. 2 doubles team of senior Samantha Windorski and sophomore Audriana Schultz, and the No. 3 team of seniors Nicole Schieffer and Reagan Donahue.
Husak had her season come to an end with a loss to the top-ranked player in the No. 3 singles flight. Husak had begun the day in winning 6-2, 6-3 over Mondovi's Julia Jardine, but in the semifinals her opponent was Baldwin-Woodville's Jacque Kroening, who sports a 24-2 record. Husak had a competitive match, but Kroening moved on in taking the match 6-2, 7-5. Husak completes her junior season with an 8-9 record.
Windorski and Schultz started the day with a victory in topping an Osceola doubles team 6-1, 6-3. In the semifinals they battled in a three-set contest with Baldwin-Woodville's team of Lola Peavey and Evelyn Dietzman. The Rice Lake duo took the first set 6-3, but Blackhawks evened the match with a 6-3 set two win. The tiebreaker went to Peavey and Dietzman 10-5. Windorski and Schultz were 3-10 this season on the court together.
Playing at No. 3 doubles, Schieffer and Donahue won their first match 6-1, 6-4 over a doubles team from Osceola, but in the semifinals the Rice Lake duo came up short 2-6, 2-6 to Amery's Olivia Chavez and Addie Gould, who had improved their record to 11-2 on the season. Schieffer and Donahue ended the year with a record of 2-6 as doubles teammates.
In the team standings at subsectionals Amery topped the leaderboard at 22 points, with Baldwin-Woodville two points back, and Rice Lake in third at 18.
Golf
Rice Lake's Annika Ahlberg competed in Monday's Division 2 sectional tournament held at Luck Golf Course.
The freshman scored a 107 to place 32nd in a field of 54 golfers. Ahlberg shot par on holes five, 11 and 16. After a score of 58 on the front nine, 23 over par, Ahlberg improved over the course of the day to shoot 49, 13 over par for the back nine.
Advancing to the state tournament are Spooner and Hayward after scores of 373 and 378, respectively. Colfax/Elk Mound's Belle Kongshaug, the defending Division 2 state champion, shot a four over par 76 to top the individual leaderboard. Also heading to state individually are St. Croix Central's Addison Kofal and Ellsworth's Lexi Marks.
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