Written by
Jessica Snider SMT Writer
It was a busy weekend for the Lady Bearcat Tennis Team as they traveled to Farmington early Saturday morning for the annual Farmington Tournament. This tournament held every year is a varsity only competition.
Dexter faced six other schools in the tournament. A few teams were from the South St. Louis area and Notre Dame competed as well.
Each team invited to the tournament is asked to provide two doubles teams and two players to enter the competition in singles play. Dexter’s two singles entries were Baylee Cooper and Erica Morgan. Morgan moved up to fill the shoes of senior Hailee Hubbard who had to withdraw due to injury. Playing on the number one doubles team was Allison Jarrell and Kendra Stevenson who are both providing consistent victories for the team this year. Playing on the number two doubles were MaKayla Waldner and Katelynn Frazier.
After three rounds of play, Dexter still had all six competitors in the winner’s brackets in the quarterfinals. Both Morgan and Cooper in the singles competition lost before the final round.
Holding on in the finals was Dexter’s number one and two doubles teams who played each other for Champion and Reserve. The number two Dexter doubles team of MaKayla Waldner and Katelynn Frazier came out with the overall win.
The Dexter Lady Bearcat Tennis Team won the overall championship by over ten points. Coach Leanne Dooley commented on the victory, “I’m very proud of the girls and I can see that we’ve made quite a bit of progress this season.”
Congratulations to these girls in taking home another big Farmington Tournament win!
Shown in the above photo and to the left is the number two doubles team of Katelynn Frazier and MaKayla Waldner.
Pictured in the photo to the right is the number one doubles team of Alison Jarrell and Kendra Stevenson.
