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Larned Indian wins Garden City tennis title
Lauren Sleder
Larned Indian Lauren Sleder - photo by COURTESY PHOTO Janet Fleske

GARDEN CITY — Larned's multi-year state qualifier Lauren Sleder downed Liberal's Evelin Tarango 8-5 to capture Saturday's Garden City girls tennis singles championship.

Garden City's Vivian Whitham defeated Great Bend's Paige Stacey, 8-0 for third place.

Larned Indians Emma McNett/Olivia Holt (4-1) defeated Garden City's 8-6 for third place. Garden City's doubles champions Renly Just/Tegan Snodgrass defeated McNett/Holt 8-5 in the semifinals.

Liberal's Yvanna Rivera/Maliha Navarro defeated Great Bend's Beth Hammeke/Olivia Boone (2-2) 8-6 for fifth place.

Garden City (174) captured the team title followed by runner-up 5A Great Bend (149) and 3A Larned (144).

GARDEN CITY INVITE

TEAM TOTALS—1—Garden City Brown 174; 2—Great Bend 149; 3—Larned 144; 4—Liberal 129; 5—Dodge City 116; 6—Hays 101; 7—Colby Black 98; 8—Garden City White 92; 9—Goodland 91; 10—Cimarron 85; 11—Ulysses 73; 12—Scott City Blue 72; 13—Scott City White 71; 14—Colby Orange 62

SINGLES

1ST—Lauren Sleder, L (4-0) def. Evelin Tarango, Lib, 8-5; 4TH—Vivian Whitham, GC def. Paige Stacey, GB (2-2), 8-0; 7TH—Darby Sundahl, L (4-2) def. Tayley Kopper, Cim, 8-4; 11TH—Addie Hart, GB (3-2) def. Zeni Mead, Colby Black, 8-4

Sleder def. Keri Crister, SC Blue, 8-1; Sleder def. Rachel Longa, GC White, 8-2; Stacey def. Taylyn May, Hays, 8-2; Stacey def. Tayley Kopper, Cim, 8-2; Tarango def. Stacey, 8-3; Sundahl def. Shaylee Bell, Colby Black, 8-0; Sundahl def. Hart, 8-2; Whitham def. Sundahl, 8-1; Rachel Longa, GC White def. Sundahl, 8-0; Hart def. Kristen Moreno, GC White, 8-3; Hart def. Salina Dyer, DC, 8-4; Alyiah Aldrete, DC def. Hart, 8-6

DOUBLES

3RD—Emma McNett/Olivia Holt, L (4-1) def. Macey Kennedy/Reece Kennedy, GC Brown, 8-6; 5TH—Yvanna Rivera/Maliha Navarro, Lib def. Beth Hammeke/Olivia Boone, GB (2-2), 8-6; 7TH—Ella Linn/Reagan James, Goodland def. Brooklyn Reynolds/Maddie Siefkes, GB (2-3), 8-6; 21ST—Maggie Hineman/Amya Parker, SC White def. Danielle Hemken/Onyinye Udaku, L (1-3), 8-4

McNett/Holt def. Shelby Massaglia/Hayla Edwards, SC Blue, 8-3; McNett/Holt def. Elly Evert/Brynlee Zimmerman, Goodland, 8-1; McNett/Holt def. Rivera/Navarro, Lib, 8-3; Renly Just/Tegan Snodgrass, GC Brown def. McNett/Holt, 8-5; Hammeke/Boone def. Gentry Hands/Mac Kott, GC White, 8-3; Kennedy/Kennedy, GC Brown def. Hammeke/Boone, 8-6; Hammeke/Boone def. Linn/James, Goodland, 8-6; Reynolds/Siefkes def. Kirsten Guerin/Hailey Unruh, GC White, 8-3; Reynolds/Siefkes def. Dakota Maier/Angela Feyerherm, Hays, 8-5; Just/Snodgrass, GC Brown def. Reynolds/Siefkes, 8-3; Ava Smith/Adalei Zeller, SC Blue def. Hemken/Udaku, 8-6; Massaglia/Edwards, SC Blue def. Hemken/Udaku, 8-3; Hemken/Udaku def. Drew Kugler/Giselle Salko, Cim, 8-7 (7-2)