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Foley and Becker will compete in the 2024 Minnesota state tennis tournament
MINNEAPOLIS Two teams from central Minnesota competed in the state tennis championships. Foley finished in fifth place in Class 1A and Becker was eliminated in two games from the Class 2A tournament.
Bulldog senior Zach Bengtson also made the Class 2A tournament as an individual and the Foley doubles pair of senior Gavin Gross and junior Jack Erkens went 1-1 in Class 1A.
Both Foley (16-7) and Becker (19-7) had tough state draws in the opening round of the team tournament, with Foley losing 5-2 to Breck (10-7) on June 4 in the Reed-Sweatt tournament ). InnerCity Tennis Center and Becker go 0-17 against The Blake School (22-2) and Eden Prairie (11-9) at the Baseline Tennis Center.
Two Falcon doubles teams were undefeated in the Class 1A team tournament: the No. 2 team of junior Lane Stangler and senior Jack Worm and No. 3 partners Cole Rueckert and Mason Weikert, both juniors. In the losers' bracket, Foley eliminated Montevideo (12-6) in a shutout, then lost to Cotter (18-2) in the consolation round by a score of 4-3, with all three wins coming from doubles pairs.
Gross played individually, his only match win was against Montevideo with 6-1/6-3. In the first round Gross was not particularly competitive, but in his final team match he pushed Cotter's Pedro Alonso to 6-4 in both sets.
Gross competed in the Class 1A doubles tournament with Erkens on June 6. In the first round, they advanced past Hibbings (14-6) Keaton Petrick and Isiah Hildenbrand 6-4/6-3 before losing 7-5/6-4 to Noah Ryder and Husdon Zimmerman of Schaeffer Academy (11 -5).
Ryder and Zimmerman lost a competitive third-place match after being eliminated by champions Leo Benson and Maik Nguyen of St. Paul Academy and Summit School (16-6).
Erkens played with senior Landon Harris for Foley's team competition, with the duo going 2-0 after an opening loss to Breck. All individual Falcons went 1-2, with junior Aaron VanderWeyst, junior Weston Harris and sophomore Colton Stangler joining Gross in losing to their Cotter opponents in the fourth-place match. All four showed fight in their final set and scored multiple points, with Harris and Stangler losing 6-3 and VanderWeyst falling 6-2.
In the Class 2A individual competition, Bengtson was edged out by state No. 3 Aaron Beduhn, 6-0, 6-1. Junior Wayzatas (19-0) finished runner-up to undefeated sophomore Tej Bhagra of Rochester Mayo (18-2). Bengtson entered the tournament unseeded with a second-place finish in Section 5/8-2A.
The senior also had tough games for the Bulldogs in the team tournament. Bengston lost 6-2/6-0 to Blake's No. 1 Kai Chen and 6-1/6-4 to Eden Prairie's Zaden Chau. In the No. 2 matches, sophomore Troy Nuest won a match in both sets against Eden Prairie's Varin Tangeti, but lost 6-0/6-0 to his first opponent Tarun Gopalakrishnan. Becker's final individual, sophomore Landon Peterson, lost 6-1/6-3 to Blake's Steven Cao and 6-1 in both sets to Eden Prairie's Milind Murthy.
The Bulldogs' third doubles team was the most competitive. Junior Jon Drury and sophomore Nathan Weiss finished 6-3/6-4 against Eden Prairie after losing their opening competition 6-0/6-2. Becker's No. 1 team of sophomore Sawyer Brown and junior Garrett Lane won just one game in the first set against Eden Prairie. Eighth grader Brock Herdina and freshman Carter Ager went 6-0/6-2 against Blake and 6-0/6-3 against Eden Prairie.
Contact reporter Reid Glenn at [email protected].
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