Medical Lake girls continue losing streak

Medical Lake at Newport

The Card girls brought up junior varsity players due to absences on the varsity squad to go 0-5 against the Grizzly girls on the road on April 10.

In singles play Nicole Ehr and Henna VanDingenen — her first match of the season — both went down in singles play 0-6, 0-6.

In doubles play, Sarah Ransom and Trinity Caputo lost 1-6, 2-6, while an Izzy Chicoine and Jenavieve Brandt combo weren’t able to win either of their sets, going 2-6, 0-6.

Stasia Hurt-Moran and Lina Terporten lost their doubles match in three sets in a “super tie-break,” according to Eliassen, going 6-2, 2-6, but then losing the tiebreak 7-10.

Medical Lake at Lakeside

With plenty of return players with varsity experience, and a competition at the state championships last year, Eliassen predicted the Lakeside girls would take the league title this year.

Members of the Card girls JV tennis squad again stepped up against the Eagles gauntlet on April 11, making improvements with each new match in an 0-6-team loss, Eliassen said.

Emily Zunker and VanDingenen went 2-6, 1-6, and 0-6 ,0-6 respectively in their singles matches.

Ransom-Caputo went 1-6, 0-6 in doubles play, while Hurt-Moran and Terporten closed out their matches at 2-6, 4-6, and the Chicoine-Brandt doubles combo went 2-6, 2-6.

Medical Lake vs. Cheney

The Card girls didn’t fare any better in a non-league, cross-West Plains rivalry match against visiting Lady Blackhawks, absorbing a 1-6 loss by the time the dust finally settled on the courts.

The sole win for the Cards came in doubles play. Grace Remendowski and Caputo “truly clicked as doubles partners,” Eliassen said, when they teamed up against Cheney’s Alysin Simons and Brooke White, going 6-2, 4-6, snagging the tiebreaker 6-3 to take the match.

Cheney’s Misir Williams and Sarah Green beat Chicoine and Brandt, 6-2, 6-2, and Alli Davis and Suzanna Gavrilyuk lost in a tie-breaker set against Blackhawk combo of Janelle Brown and Jenae Potter 6-2, 6-3, 10-4 battle.

In singles play, the Blackhawk’s Jazi Daily beat Cardinal Riley Olmstead 6-1, 6-0, while Blackhawk Cassie McDaniel knocked out Medical Lake’s Terporten 6-0, 6-1, and Lata McGill beat Cardinal Kailey Chambers 6-1, 6-2.

And Cheney’s Grace Hammermeister beat Ransom in two sets, 6-4, 6-2.

Medical Lake vs. Colville

The Cards shuffled their lineup when they traveled north to take on second-place Colville (4-1) on Tuesday, April 16, according to Eliassen, as they “try to find the best fit for our players at the district tournament.”

Ransom played her first singles match, losing 2-6, 0-6 in a defensive game “without much pace on the ball,” by her Indians opponent, according to Eliassen.

Olmstead also played solo for the first time, and also lost both matches 2-6, 3-6.

The team shuffle had more success in doubles action. The first-time paring of Caputo and Remendowski bore fruit in a three-set, 6-2, 4-6, 7-6 victory.

Zunker and Hurt-Moran, also paired for the first time, also won in three sets 6-3, 4-6, 6-2.

In a third first-time paring, Terporten and Ehr fell to their opponents 6-2, 7-6.

Medical Lake vs. Deer Park

A trip north on Wednesday, April 18 provided the Cardinals with a much-needed win in a 3-2 road victory against Deer Park, where another shuffle of the doubles teams proved a good recipe — all three pairs had decisive wins.

Remendowski and Zunker trounced their opponents 6-1, 7-5. Calling the pair a “couple of thumpers,” Eliassen noted that both players like to hit the ball — hard.

“This matchup they just over-powered the Deer Park girls,” she said.

A Terporten and Caputo paring saw a two-set win 6-1, 7-5.

And a Brandt-VanDingenen pairing won 6-2, 6-4. Eliassen had nothing but praise for the two girls.

Medical Lake vs. Freeman

Heading south to Freeman wasn’t as good to the Cards girls tennis team, losing to the Scotties on the road 3-2 loss on Thursday, April 18.

Both wins came from Freeman defaults.

Ransom and Olmstead lost their singles matches 0-6, 0-6, and 3-6, 0-6 respectively.

“With long rallies and long games, this was an amazing match of endurance,” Eliassen said of Olmstead.

In doubles play, Remendowski and Zunker weren’t able to find the magic they created in Deer Park, losing 3-6, 4-6.

Two other doubles matches were the default matches.

As of press time the Cardinals were scheduled to host Riverside on Tuesday, April 23, followed by matches at the Inland Empire Tournament in Spokane on Friday – Saturday.

Lee Hughes can be reached at [email protected].