Alleman's undefeated freshman Nicholas Patrick won a sectional title on Saturday as five local entries punched their tickets to state tennis.
Pleasant Valley's Lauren Masengarb and the Bettendorf doubles team of Elizabeth Alves and Andrea Porubcin won regional championships Wednesday.
Folu Adekunle was Pleasant Valley High School's No. 7 tennis player last year as a freshman. He flirted back and forth between Nos. 4 and 5 singles this season as a sophomore.
Undefeated Alleman freshman Nicholas Patrick continued a dominant season after winning three matches 6-0, 6-0 to win the No. 1 singles title at Saturday’s Moline tennis invite.
The Spartans opened the second day of the MAC tennis tournament with finalists in eight of the nine flights, and grabbed the team title after the doubles matches were finished, their seventh in the last eight years.
PV won titles in all nine flights to earn 27 points for the second straight year.
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Spurred by wins in the back two-thirds of its singles matches and a pair of doubles wins, the Spartans grabbed a 6-3 dual victory over rival Bettendorf at Pleasant Valley High School.
The No. 2 player for Pleasant Valley is 7-0 so far this season and hasn't dropped a set for the Class 2A second-ranked Spartans
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GENESEO — The best of friends since their preschool days, it took considerably longer for Ali Rapps and Annie Turpin to find their way to the tennis courts together.
GENESEO — Just over a year ago, Alleman girls' tennis standout Kate Rector was celebrating a sectional doubles title with her older sister Lucy.
The Moline High School girls tennis team captured its third straight sectional title Saturday.Camille Keys, Karenna Zemek, Sarah Gustafson and Zayda Graham are all headed to state.
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Moline won its fourth straight girls tennis WB6 title Saturday with 19 points. Alleman finished second with 13. The Maroons' duo of Gustafson/Graham won doubles. The Pioneer's Rector took home the singles title.
After a summer of training in Naples, Fla., nationally-ranked tennis player Nicholas Patrick feels better equipped than ever as he gets into the swing of his freshman year at Alleman High School.
Alleman's Kate Rector has become one of the best tennis players in the area, compiling a 13-1 record so far this fall with two individual invitational championships. However, her leadership and humbleness are what make her so special.
For the longest time, it became nearly an automatic assumption that the Western Big 6 Conference girls' tennis crown and a postseason sectional plaque were earmarked for the Moline Maroons.
Geneseo's No. 2 doubles team made the Sweet 16 at last week's state tournament to earn Illinois Pacesetter honors this week.
In their first season as doubles partners, United Township juniors Dylan Kastner and Kawl Mang are clicking as UT's first state-qualifying duo in decades.
Geneseo doubles pairs Mason Miller and Thomas Robinson beat teammates Alex Slaymaker and Mason Smith for a Class 1A sectional title Saturday.