What a big week for the GRC girls varsity tennis program. Beating EGR in a dual match on Wednesday for the first time since 2016 and standing toe to toe with the top ranked teams of Division 3 tennis yesterday. Heading into Saturday, Chelsea was ranked 2nd in the state and Cranbrook was ranked 1st in the state for Dvision 3, so tying them both were huge ties for the team! The team totals at the end of the day consisted of: Cranbrook finishing with 16 total pts, GRC finishing with 15 pts, Chelsea finishing with 13 pts, and FHE finishing with 4pts. These results should bump us up from 4th in the state to 2nd. This was a big statement day for Eagles tennis. Special props were given to Marissa Sullivan/Ashley Wolfe at #2 doubles for winning close matches in scenarios where they were the last match on and in both cases we needed them to win to secure the ties against Chelsea and Cranbrook. Props were also given to Grace Brandt for filling in for Natalie who was injured in the last match against Cheslea. She played one of the top 2 singles players in the state and made her WORK very hard for each point and I could tell the Chelsea player was very frustrated and tired at several points during that match. Grace stepped up and made us proud as coaches for the way she fought.

Flight results were:

1s Brynn Uchman (3-0): 1st place and tournament champion! (remains undefeated on the season)

2s Natalie Poortenga (1-1): 3rd place

3s Alex Vermeulen (1-2): 3rd place

4s Kaitlyn Schmitt (1-2): 3rd place

1d Hope Alvesteffer/Carolina Mignini (2-1): 2nd place

2d Marissa Sullivan/Ashley Wolfe (3-0): 1st place

3d Olivia Cook/Avah Jerke (2-1): 2nd place

4d Lex Meeuwsen/Betta Klein (2-1): 2nd place

5d Frankie Volkema/Grace Brandt (1-1): 2nd place

6d Charlene Dahu/Janie Mills (1-1): 3rd place

The Eagles will have their next match against a tough conference opponent in FHC on Wednesday. This will be at FHC at 4:15pm. Both teams are undefeated in conference play. Come out and support the #2 ranked team in the state! Go Eagles!!