Newton tennis teams open season with loss to Boone

Newton’s girls tennis team opened its season against Boone on Monday and Maggie Garrett registered the team’s lone win at Aurora Heights Park.

The Cardinals’ lost 10-1 and the Toreadors recorded eight straight-set victories.

Garrett won her No. 2 singles match 6-3, 6-2 over Sophie Dierking.

Lauryn Garrett went to a third-set tiebreaker at No. 1 singles but lost 3-6, 6-4, 0-8.

The Garrett sisters teamed up at No. 1 doubles and dropped a competitive three-set match. They lost to Dierking and Bria Schwind 2-6, 6-3, 0-7.

The next closest match came at No. 3 doubles as Ella Swarts and Olivia Hotchkin fell 6-4, 6-2.

Boys

Boone 11, Newton 0

BOONE — With a mostly new varsity roster, Newton’s boys tennis team took a bit to get going in its first matches of the season on Monday.

The Cardinals struggled in the opening sets of most of their 11 matches against Boone and couldn’t recover during an 11-0 road loss to the Toreadors.

Boone scored straight-set wins in 10 of the 11 matches. Only Blake Baumgartner and Kael Swarts went to a third set for Newton at No. 1 doubles.

“Our kids played hard,” Newton boys tennis coach Jared Gerber said. “Boone had already played a match this year and it was our first so you can see that in the first-set scores.

“It takes a little while to get a feel for playing a match and it was the first varsity singles matches for our No. 3 through 6 players.”

Baumgartner and Swarts lost 6-4, 3-6, 6-10 at No. 1 doubles. Baumgartner had the most competitive singles match, too, losing 6-2, 6-4 to Boone’s Cody Overland at No. 1 singles.

No. 2 John Valtman won four games in set two of his singles match and Swarts, who was playing No. 4 singles, won three games in set two of his match.

At No. 5 doubles, Tyler Sterling and Cayden Jackson won three games in the second set.

“We had some great moments, but now the key is stringing those shots together to win games and sets,” Gerber said.