Coach Mark Sandbo has released the Boys Tennis Calendar for the spring 2017 season. Includes practice times and meets.
Red Demon Roundup
Demons finish season at state
By: John Zetmeir
GIRLS GOLF
The three Red Demons who qualified for the 6A state tournament finished up their season on Monday in Leawood.
Senior Makena Kondrade led the team with a score of 100. Konrade’s score earned her a four-way tie for 38th place. Senior Emily Stephenson shot a 105 while junior Chesney More finished just behind her with a 107. The two Red Demons finished just outside of the top 50. There were 87 golfers in all that competed on Monday.
GIRLS TENNIS
Dodge City junior Leah Stein came up just shy of a win last Friday at the first day of the 6A state tennis tournament.
In her first match, Stein fell to her opponent from Lawrence Free State 6-3, 6-4. In her second match of the day, the junior was topped by Hutchinson’s Reagan Wessel 9-3. Stein finished the season with a 23-11 record and was named Western Athletic Conference Player of the Year. She was the only Red Demon to qualify for state.
Regional Tennis and Golf Results
Red Demon Round-up for Regional Golf and Tennis
By: John Zetmeir
GIRLS TENNIS
After being named Western Athletic Conference Player of the Year, Dodge City High School junior Leah Stein was the lone Red Demon to qualify for the 6A state tournament at regionals on Saturday.
Stein followed a first round bye with a win to advance to the semifinals. The junior dropped her next two matches to earn a fourth place finish. Senior Daniella Villarreal won her first match of the day but did not finish in the top-six.
In the doubles bracket, Hannah Sowers and Abigail Argumedo won their first match in three sets. The final score of the third set was 14-12. The duo fell to Sally Dinkel and Megan Powers of Garden City in the following round.
GIRLS GOLF
The Dodge City High School girls golf team produced their best team performance of the season on Monday afternoon in Hutchinson at the regional tournament.
The Red Demons got fourth as a team with a team score of 397 which was 10 strokes behind Derby who was the final team to qualify for the 6A state tournament. While Dodge City did not qualify as a team for state, there will be three Red Demons competing in Leawood next Monday.
Emily Stephenson,who led the group with a fifth place finish, along with Makena Konrade and Chesney Moore will be the three Red Demons traveling across the state next week for the state tournament. Konrade earned a ninth place individual medal after shooting a 95.
Other scores
AliPhelps110,Alexis Ontiberos 116, Taylor Starnes 117.
Lady Demon Tennis looks to Regionals
The Dodge City High School girls tennis team did not spend too much time lingering on their third place finish at the Western Athletic Conference championships on Monday in Great Bend.
After losing the opportunity to win a second-straight WAC championship by just one point on Monday, the Red Demons returned to the practice courts on Tuesday in preparation for this weekend’s regional tournament.
“They’ve shown that they’re focused,” Dodge City head coach David Snodgrass said. “At this point, it’s more mental preparation. I think they’ve been able to take that disappointment from Monday’s performance and turning it into positive energy.”
Despite the third place team finish, the Red Demons swept the singles brackets. Junior Leah Stein won all of her matches to earn a WAC championship in the No. 1 singles pool.
Stein was also named WAC Player of the Year.
“It was incredible,” Stein said. “I really wasn’t expecting it because it’s usually a senior (who wins it). I was proud of how I played and when they announced it I was really excited.”
Senior Daniella Villarreal also won an individual WAC title in the No. 2 singles bracket. Villarreal, who holds an 18-9 record this year, has been playing tennis in the United States for the first time this season.
The exchange student from Colombia is now looking forward to the challenge of qualifying for the state tournament.
“I know that there are going to be hard games but I always keep a positive attitude and think that if you want to win, you’re going to try and fight for every ball,” Villarreal said.
The Dodge City girls placed fourth in last year’s regional tournament and qualified four Red Demons for the 6A state tournament. Stein (22-7) took third place in the No. 1 singles bracket.
Senior Hannah Sowers was part of a doubles team that also earned a trip to state. Sowers will compete in the No. 1 doubles bracket with Marin Dameron this Saturday.
Kameron Lowery and Abigail Argumendo will play No. 2 doubles.
“Our singles have the best opportunity from what they’ve done throughout the year,” Snodgrass said. “It’s going to be a little tougher in doubles. It will depend on seeding and match ups. I think both doubles teams stand a good chance if they get a good match-up. They are both capable.”
Action will begin Saturday morning at Wichita Northwest High School.
By John Zetmeir, Dodge City Daily Globe
Lady Demon Tennis team places 3rd at WAC
Throughout the regular season, Dodge City High School girls head tennis coach David Snodgrass said that he wanted to see his team continue to improve so that they would be playing their best tennis by the time October rolled around.
On Monday afternoon in Liberal, Snodgrass did not feel like his team competed to its best ability.
The Red Demons fell to Garden City and Hays by just one point in the Western Athletic Conference championship meet. Garden City won a tiebreaker with the Indians to earn the WAC title.
“I still think our team as a whole was the most talented team but we just didn’t have the fight today,” Snodgrass said. “Hays and Garden City definitely went out there and competed like they wanted to win a WAC championship and they definitely deserved the opportunity.”
Junior Leah Stein and senior Daniela Villarreal both earned WAC titles, Stein in No. 1 singles and Villarreal in No. 2 singles. Stein was also named WAC Player of the Year.
Stein won all four of her matches which included a hard-fought 8-5 win over Liberal’s Tierra Stoney who lost just one match on Monday. Villarreal dropped one match to Garden City’s Tayrin Tabor in the first round but rebounded with three straight wins to finish the day.
“They did what they needed to do to get those individual championships and help us be in contention as a team,” Snodgrass said.
On the doubles side, Hannah Sowers and Marin Dameron took third place in No. 1 doubles while Abigail Argumedo and Kameron Lowery finished fourth in No. 2 doubles. Sowers and Dameron fell to Garden City 8-2 in round one before ending the day with an 8-3 loss to Hays.
Argumedo and Lowery were blanked by Garden City in the first round and fell to Hays 8-3 to end the day.
“We just have to make sure that we fight and claw and win those decisive points in those tight matches,” Snodgrass said. “All of those games could have gone different ways. Instead of being down 6-1, it could be 4-3.”
The Red Demons will have four days of practice to prepare for regionals this Saturday at Wichita Northwest.
“It’ll be interesting to see how the ladies respond,” Snodgrass said. “I think that they are definitely disappointed and definitely a little frustrated as well. So I hope that they are able to take all of that and respond with the adversity and practice a little harder this week going into regionals.”
By John Zetmeir, Dodge City Daily Globe
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