Prep girls tennis: Superior sweeps Ashland 7-0
Aug. 15—SUPERIOR — The Superior Spartans earned a 7-0 clean sweep against the Ashland Oredockers in a varsity dual match Tuesday morning at NBC Spartan Sports Complex.
Superior's individual matches were just as lopsided as the final score. In the seven total contests, not a single match went to a third-set tiebreaker. The Spartans' No. 1 singles player, Sydney Friedrich, began Superior's dominant performance with a pair of 6-0 shutout sets to defeat Ashland's Lily Kovach.
Lily Clark continued Superior's early success with her 6-0 victories in back-to-back sets against Lainey Westlund of Ashland. Annika Nikoi and Olivia Mihalik, Superior's No. 3 and No. 4 singles players, respectively, secured wins against their Ashland opposition without going to a winner-take-all third set.
The doubles matches weren't any closer than the singles contests. Greta Clark and Lexi Johnsen, Superior's No. 1 doubles team, swept Ashland's Mikayla Bigo and Ali Vittone convincingly, winning the first set 6-1 and closing it out with a 6-0 win in the second set.
Superior's No. 2 doubles team, which featured Kenlyn Thimm and Mattie Schilling, defeated Ashland's Hannah Houck and Ellie Grahek, 6-2 and 6-0. Jenna Briggs and Sierra Thralow closed out the 7-0 shutout of Ashland with 6-0 and 6-1 victories in No. 3 doubles, the final match of the morning.
The Spartans will face multiple schools in a quad match Wednesday, Aug. 16, at 10 a.m. in Amery, Wisconsin.
