By Chad Koenen

Publisher

The Perham/New York Mills Yellowjackets improved to 6-6 on the season with a pair of wins over Moorhead on Tuesday and Roseau on Thursday. 

This week the Yellowjackets will travel to Sauk Rapids-Rice on Tuesday and Moorhead on Thursday. 

Perham/NY Mills will return home on Tuesday, Sept. 15 when they host Park Rapids Area. 

Tuesday

The Perham/NY Mills tennis team split a triangular in Moorhead on Tuesday as they defeated Moorhead 6-1 and fell to Thief River Falls by an identical 6-2 score. 

The Yellowjackets were hitting on all cylinders in their match against the Spuds as Aurora Jabas defeated Lauren Palmer of Moorhead by a 6-2, 7-6 (5) score at first singles, while Lilliahna Kletke defeated Jera Voxland (6-1, 6-2) at second singles and Tayla Vandermay made quick work of Rachel Leiseth with a perfect 6-0, 6-0 sweep at third singles. 

Nora Murdock made it a clean sweep for Perham/NY Mills in singles as she defeated Sophia Voeltz 6-1, 6-1 at fourth singles.

In the doubles matches, Hazel Dykhoff and Brooklyn Glorvingen defeated Avie Voldeth and Elise Froslie (6-4, 7-6 (5)) in second doubles, while the third doubles team of Daisy Carlson and Nora Rosenthal defeated Emily Grieff and Zoe Brand (6-4, 6-2) at third doubles. 

In their match against Thief River falls, Kletke secured the lone win for the Yellowjackets by a medical default at second singles. 

Thief River Falls 6 Perham/New York Mills 1

SINGLES — No. 1 Pray (TRF) def. Jabas 6-2, 2-6, 10-7; No. 2 Klettke (PER) def. Novak 0-0 (medical default); No. 3 Hamre (TRF) def. Vandermay 7-6 (3), 6-2; No. 4 Jablinske (TRF) def. Barthel 6-3, 6-4

DOUBLES — No. 1 Niebuhr/Jahn (TRF) def. Murdock/Rodewald 7-6 (4), 6-2; No. 2 Trudeau/Dicken (TRF) def. Dykhoff/Glorvigen 6-4, 6-1; No. 3 Jahn/Eickman (TRF) def. Wiser/Rosenthal 7-5, 6-1

Perham/New York Mills 6 Moorhead 1

SINGLES — No. 1 Jabas (PER) def. Palmer 6-2, 7-6 (5); No. 2 Klettke (PER) def. Voxland 6-1, 6-2; No. 3 Vandermay (PER) def. Leiseth 6-0, 6-0; No. 4 Murdock (PER) def. Voeltz 6-1, 6-1

DOUBLES — No. 1 Markuson/Linn (MHD) def. Rodewald/Barthel 6-3, 6-4; No. 2 Dykhoff/Glorvigen (PER) def. Voldseth/Froslie 6-4, 7-6 (5); No. 3 Carlson/Rosenthal (PER) def. Greiff/Brand 6-4, 6-2

Thursday

Perham/NY Mills improved to 6-6 on the season with a win and two losses in a quadrangular in Fergus Falls on Thursday. 

The Yellowjackets secured a 5-2 win over Roseau, but narrowly fell to East Grand Forks and Fergus Falls by an identical score of 4-3. 

In their match against the Rams, Perham/NY Mills swept the doubles matches as Aurora Jabas and Hazel Dykhoff won at first doubles by a score of 6-2, 6-2. Kenzlee Rosewald and Brightyn Barthel secured a 6-1, 6-2 win at second doubles, while the third doubles team of Nora Rosenthal and Daisy Carlson secured a 6-3, 6-1 to complete the sweep. The Yellowjackets also secured wins at third singles from  Nora Murdock by a score of 6-3, 6-3 and fourth singles by Brooklyn Glorvigen by a score of 6-0, 6-0. 

Perham/New York Mills 5 Roseau 2

Singles — No. 1 Kennedy (ROS) def. Klettke 6-4, 6-4; No. 2 Desrosier (ROS) def. Vandermay 7-5, 6-1; No. 3 Murdock (PER) def. A. Swanson 6-3, 6-3; No. 4 Glorvigen (PER) def. Edbrg 6-0, 6-0

Doubles — No. 1 Jabas/Dykhoff (PER) def. Ella Wright/Emma Wright 6-2, 6-2; No. 2 Rodewald/Barthel (PER) def. Whaley/Craig 6-1, 6-2; No. 3 Rosenthal/Carlson (PER) def. H. Swanson/Osweiler 6-3, 6-1

EGF 4 Perham/New York Mills 3

Singles — No. 1 Jabas (PER) def. Wallace 6-1, 6-2; No. 2 Klettke (PER) def. Spradlin 6-4, 6-2; No. 3 Bina (EGF) def. Vandermay 6-3, 6-0; No. 4 Casavan (EGF) def. Murdock 6-4, 6-1

Doubles — Svendsen/Robles (EGF) def. Rodewald/Barthel 6-0, 6-2; No. 3 Dykhoff/Glorvigen (PER) def. Spradlin/Omang 6-2, 4-6, 10-4; No. 3 Peterson/Brott (EGF) def. Rosenthal/Carlson 6-1, 7-6 (4)

Fergus Falls 4 Perham/New York Mills 3

Singles — No. 1 Bredenberg (FF) def. Jabas 6-3, 6-0; No. 2 Klettke (PER) def. Millard 6-4, 4-6, 6-3; No. 3 E. Black (FF) def. Vandermay 6-1, 6-1; No. 4 Barthel (PER) def. Duffy 6-4, 7-6 (1)

Doubles — Ness/Lill (FF) def. Murdock/Rodewald 6-0, 6-0; No. 2 Smith/Nasri (FF) def. Dykhoff/Glorvigen 6-3, 5-7, 6-4; No. 3 Rosenthal/Carlson (PER) def. G. Black/Krause 6-1, 0-6, 6-3