SEQUIM — It’s been two years, but technically Sequim’s Kalli Wiker is a defending state champion in tennis.
And Wiker, who won a state championship in 2019 as a doubles player along with former teammate Jessica Dietzman (and in the process gave the Sequim girls’ tennis squad the state team championship), is starting off this season right where she left off, moving over to singles play as Dietzman graduated.
Wiker easily won Monday over Izzy Alvertz of North Mason, 6-0, 6-0, helping lead the Sequim tennis team to a 7-0 win over the Bulldogs.
Melissa Porter also won her singles match 6-1, 6-0.
In doubles play, sisters McKenna and Kendall Hastings won 6-0, 6-0, while Jordan Hegtvedt and Lindsay Swanson won their match 6-2, 6-1.
Winning by forfeit were singles’ player Olivia Preston and doubles’ teams of Amanda Weller/Allie Gale and Sydney Sandstrom/Malory Morey.
Port Angeles 5, Bainbridge 2
PORT ANGELES — The Roughriders girls tennis team won all of its doubles matches against Bainbridge, going to a pair of tiebreakers to edge out 3A Bainbridge 5-2.
Singles player Hannah Basden won in three sets, splitting her first two sets 6-2, 0-6. She then won the 10-point tiebreaker 10-7, bouncing back from that rough second set.
In doubles’ play, the team of Reagan and Eden Critchfield won a long match that went to tiebreaker, 6-7 (5-7), 6-4, 10-5.
The other Roughrider doubles teams won more easily. The No. 1 team of Hannah Reetz and Shannon Callahan won 6-1, 6-3, the No. 3 team of Angelina Sprague and Brielle Keywood won 6-3, 6-0 and the No. 4 team of Ellie Getchell and Kinnley Brady won 6-2, 7-5.
The Riders’ No. 1 singles’ player Emma Olsen had a long match, but ultimately fell to Bainbridge’s No. 1 player Ella Parker 7-6 (10-8), 6-4. Port Angeles No. 2 player Liberty Lauer was beaten 6-3, 6-1.
Port Angeles will next play at Central Kitsap today.
East Jefferson 7, Bremerton 0
BREMERTON — East Jefferson girls’ tennis swept Bremerton 7-0, with all four doubles teams winning in straight sets.
Meanwhile, singles players Maddie Hess and Juniper Cervenka both had to go to three sets, both of them coming from behind to win. Hess won 0-6, 6-4, 6-4, while Cervenka won 2-6, 6-4, 6-3.
In doubles play, the duo of Tiffany Bell and Sophia Amovitz won 6-1, 6-0, the team of Myka Briggs and Olivia Mattern won 6-2, 6-2, the team of Lily Morrison and Caitlyn Boyd won 6-2, 6-0 and the team of Savannah Gallaway and Awstyn Sukert won 6-0, 6-1.
Singles player Adeline Gellert DePalma also won by forfeit.
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Sequim’s Melissa Porter returns a volley against North Mason. Porter won her match 6-1, 6-0. (Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group)
