June 6 is the entry deadline for the Columbus Summer Open. If you are planning to play, and haven’t already registered, you’ll want to head over to TennisLink ASAP to register online, or for more information.
The Girls State Tennis Tournament was held Thursday and Fremont High picked up two wins.
Erin Eairleywine won at very tight match at No. 2 singles in the first round over No. 12 seed Gretchen Pille of Papillion-LaVista South, 3-6, 6-4, 7-6(7-5). She then lost to Saki Aota of Lincoln Southwest 6-1, 6-0 in the second round.
Catherine Booth and Bailey Stewart were easy winners in their No. 2 doubles first round match over Samantha Kasun and Jaclyn Rentschler of Omaha North, 6-0, 6-0. Then lost their second round match to 2nd seeded Regina Beller and Kara Schuele of Omaha Marian 6-0, 6-0.
At No. 1 singles, Fremont’s Amy Ahrens lost 7-5, 6-0 to Eve Dimagno of Lincoln High in the opening round. Sydney Robertson and Lindsay Strong lost 6-0, 6-0 at No. 1 doubles to Danielle Kostal and Kari Nelson of Lincoln Southeast in the first round.
Omaha Marian won the State meet with 36 points. Fremont ended the tournament with 4 points.
May 22 is the entry deadline for the Stinson Morrison Hecker Omaha Adult Open. If you are planning to play, and haven’t already registered, you’ll want to head over to TennisLink ASAP to register online, or for more information.
The Fremont girls tennis team lost to Columbus Tuesday, April 19, at the Fremont Family YMCA by a score of 6-3.
The Columbus Discoverers won four of the six singles matches and two of the three doubles matches. Erin Eairleywine and Bailey Stewart picked up the singles wins for the Tigers. Eairleywine defeated Kelcey Robak 8-6 at No. 4 singles, and Stewart was an 8-5 winner over Brianna Ritter at No. 6 singles. Cathrine Booth and Carly Gross had the only win in doubles play, 8-4 over Kelcey Robak and Staci Barton at No. 2 doubles.
On Monday, April 18, the Fremont Tigers had a close win over Lincoln Northeast 5-4. The dual was tied 4-4 when Sydney Robertson and Lindsay Strong battled back at No. 1 doubles for a 9-8 (8-6) victory to seal the win.
Robertson was also a winner at No. 1 singles, winning 8-2 over Latalie Serel. Amy Ahrens and Erin Eairleywine also picked up wins in singles play. Ahrens won 8-2 over McKenzie Ferguson at No. 3 singles, and Eairleywine was an 8-2 winner over Jadeyn Palmer-Hahn at No. 4 singles. Ahrens and Eairleywine teamed up for an 8-5 win at No. 3 doubles.
The Fremont Jr. Varsity team defeated Lincoln Northeast 8-1 and remains undefeated this season.
The Summer session of the Fremont Tennis League will begin Wednesday, May 11, 2011. Sign-up should be completed by April 30, 2011.
The league is open to all levels of players, and will seek to match comparable skill levels. Doubles players may sign up individually, or as a team.
The play format will remain the same as recent years, with singles starting at 6:00 p.m. and doubles at 7:30 p.m.
For more information, or to enter, click on Men’s Summer League Entry Form to download a copy of this year’s entry form.
The Fremont Girls Tennis team finished in a 3-way tie with Lincoln Southeast and Omaha Burke on Monday, April 4, at Burke High School.
Fremont had four wins in doubles play and won two singles matches for six points. LSE won four singles matches and two doubles matches while Burke won three doubles and three singles matches.
Catherine Booth and Carly Gross had wins of 8-6 and 8-5 at No. 2 doubles and Gabby George and captain Bayley Becher won 8-5 and 8-4 at No. 3 doubles. Captain Sydney Robertson and Lindsay Strong lost both of their matches at No. 1 doubles.
Amy Ahrens defeated Burke’s Jess Ahrens 8-2 at No. 1 singles for the Tigers and lost to LSE’s Danielle Kostal 8-3.
Captain Erin Eairleywine also split her matches at No. 2 singles. She defeated Burke’s Caroline Song 8-5 and lost to Megan Freese of LSE 8-4.
Bailey Stewart dropped both of her matches at No. 3 singles.
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