Le Mars doubles team of Meis and Pratt advances to state tennis – nwestiowa.com

DENISON The Le Mars Community boys tennis tandem of Michael Meis and Evan Pratt earned a spot at the state tournament as they were crowned champions of the doubles tournament bracket at the Class 1A district meet hosted by Denison-Schleswig on Monday.

Meis and Pratt earned the top seed in the bracket and worked their way through the days competition with relative ease.

Michael and Evan had a great run today, Le Mars Head Coach Michael Bahr said. They earned the one seed and played like it all day. They played solid, aggressive, and smart tennis all day and were able to walk out as the district champions. They have set the tone all year for our team and we are looking forward to what they will do at the individual state tournament.

The partners picked up a 6-0, 6-0 opening round win over Adam Kohn and Jack Waldner from Cherokee.

In the next round, the Bulldogs met up with Lewis Central pair Payton Fort and Colby Souther. The Le Mars team doubled up their opponent 6-3 in the first set and then took the second set 6-0 for the win.

The semifinals featured the No. 1 seed against the No. 12 seed. as the Denison-Schleswig duo of Braden Curnyn and Gavin Hipnar upset their first two opponents, the No. 5 and No. 4 seeds in the bracket. The upset run came to an end against Meis and Pratt as they won 6-1, 6-2 to advance to the finals.

The finals match paired the top two seeds in the bracket as the Bulldogs faced Denison-Schleswig duo Wyatt Johnson and Carson Seuntjens. The match went 6-1, 6-1 in favor of the Bulldogs as they claimed the doubles title. The second place team also advances to state.

Johnson and Seuntjens had knocked out the other Le Mars doubles team in the quarterfinals. Caden Wurth and Jacob McGill fell by a 6-1, 6-4 score to the Monarchs.

These guys went in unseeded and had a tough draw. But, they put up a fight against the eventual district runner-ups and played one of their better doubles matches of the season, Bahr said.

They got the win over the Bishop Heelan team of Jack Bousquet and Teegan Reiners in the first round. The Le Mars team won that one by a 6-2, 6-1 score.

In singles action, Christian Jensen of Lewis Central was the tournament champion. The top seed in the bracket opened up against Ian Penne of Le Mars and won 6-2, 6-1.

He played a great match against a tough opponent, Bahr said. I was so proud of his poise and coachability during this match against the district champion.

The other Le Mars singles competitor was Devin DeVall. He won his opening round match by a 6-2, 6-0 score over Jaxson Lehnen of Council Bluffs St. Albert. DeVall then lost 6-0, 6-0 to No. 3 seed Tyler Grote of Sergeant Bluff-Luton. Grote ended up taking third place in the tournament.

Devin played two outstanding matches today. He is such an important part of our team and did a good job of playing good tennis against tough opponents today, Bahr said.

The Le Mars doubles team of Meis and Pratt will compete at the Class 1A state tournament which will be held Tuesday, May 23 and Wednesday, May 24 at Byrnes Park in Waterloo.

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