The Eagles finished first at the regional tournament last Friday!!!  Our players displayed concentration and physical endurance on the hottest day we've seen yet in order to achieve this exciting result.  The tournament took place at Gainey Athletic Complex with a secondary site located at Canepa.  The team played some of their best tennis in order to edge out competitive schools like Forest Hills Eastern, who placed 2nd, and Catholic Central, who placed 3rd.  Our doubles teams improved throughout the tournament and each of the four teams won their flight!  Grace Poortenga and Dafna Heule are the regional champs at first doubles,  Lauren Peal and Elizabeth Rupp are regional champs at 2nd doubles, Marissa Sullivan and Ashley Wolfe are regional champs at 3rd doubles, and Chloe Westhouse and Calista Bremer are regional champs at 4th doubles.  Our singles players competed in some of the most compelling and grittiest matches of the tournament.  Ryann Breslin is the regional champ at 1st singles clutching a win against a strong FHE 1st singles.  Ainsley Weeber played a tight semifinal match against Cadillac's 2nd singles that went to three sets.  Natalie Poortenga played an extremely close match at 3rd singles against Catholic Central that went 10-12 in the first set tiebreaker.  Natalie was battling leg cramps throughout the match and essentially played on one leg for a few games in the second set before the cramps became too severe to continue play.  Alex Vermeulen played an intense semifinal match against Catholic Central at 4th singles that featured two tiebreakers, one in the first set and one in the third set. The team competed hard in the regional tournament and we are proud of every one of our player's level of effort and the guts they had to go out there and play their game! The team will be working hard at practice for the next two weeks in preparation for the State Tournament which will be played in Holland. Go Eagles!