Alaska News

Alaskans excel

Jared Lees of Fairbanks won a pair of boys 12 singles titles this month at tennis tournaments in Washington.

Lees defeated Jayden Hodgson of Anchorage to win the title at the North Central Washington Junior Champs & Challenger tournament, and also took the title at the 69th Inland Empire Junior Tournament. He also teamed with Hodgson to make it to the finals of the boys 14 doubles in the Bally Summer Junior Championships.

Rendell Burghart of Anchorage won the boys 18 singles consolation final at the North Central event and teamed with Eric Ringstad of Fairbanks to reached the boys 18 doubles final at the Inland Empire event.

Ringstad won the boys 18 singles consolation final at the Yakima Valley Junior Championships. Also in that tournament, Scott Henthorne of Anchorae teamed with Johnny Ochsner of Seattle to win the boys 14 Challenger doubles title.

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