By Fred Kroner
The St. Joseph-Ogden girls’ tennis team swept the three doubles matches on Wednesday (Sept. 1) and finished off a dual-meet win at Watseka, 7-2.
The No. 1 duo of Kelsey Martlage and Hope Rajlich were victorious, 8-2. At No. 2 doubles, Abby Behrens and Jacey Lewis were triumphant, 8-6.
Completing the doubles sweep was the No. 3 unit of Katie McDermott and Emma Rydell, 8-4.
In singles play, Abbey Dow scored an 8-4 win at the No. 1 position.
SJ-O also captured singles wins at Nos. 4, 5 and 6.
At No. 4, Claire Huffman won, 8-1. At No. 5, Grace Schmitz prevailed, 8-4. At No. 6, Oliva Getty registered an 8-6 win.
On Tuesday (Aug. 31), Urbana grabbed a 6-3 win at home over SJ-O, despite the Spartans claiming victories at No. 1 singles and No. 1 doubles.
Dow posted an 8-2 singles win at No. 1.
In doubles, the duo of Martlage and Rajlich won, 8-3.
The Spartans’ other win was at No. 4 singles where Allison Kearney registered an 8-2 victory.
SJ-O (3-2) returns to action on Tuesday (Sept. 7) at Danville Schlarman Academy.
