High School Sports

Chugiak topples Eagle River in tennis meet

Chugiak 6, Eagle River 3

Three of the nine matches went to tiebreakers Thursday in a dual tennis meet between Chugiak and Eagle River.

Eagle River won the two closest matches but Chugiak won the meet 6-3.

Eagle River's Chase McGraw outlasted Chugiak's Jared Elison 10-8 in a boys singles tiebreaker that came after two close sets. McGraw won the first set 7-5 and Elison won a 7-5 tiebreaker to take the second set 7-6. That forced a third set, which in the Cook Inlet Conference consists of a tiebreaker to 10 points.

In another close match, Eagle River's Jilito Ramos and Sterling Retzlaff held off the Chugiak boys doubles team of Kyle Yockey and Robbie Kosinski 10-5 in the third set. Ramos and Retzlaff won the first set 7-6 by claiming a 7-4 tiebreaker; Yockey and Kosinski won the second set 6-0.

Chugiak's Maggie Kraft was Thursday's other winner via third-set tiebreaker. She and Eagle River's Katie Bernhardt both posted 6-2 wins to set up the tiebreaker, which Kraft won 11-9.

Boys singles No. 1 — Chase McGraw (ER) d. Jared Elison (C) 7-5, 6-7 (5-7), 10-8.

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Boys singles No. 2 — Brendan Miles (ER) d. Wes Rueb (C) 6-2, 6-3.

Girls singles No. 1 — Maggie Kraft (C) d. Katie Bernhardt (ER) 2-6, 6-2, 11-9.

Girls singles No. 2 — Claire Mahoney (C) d. Caitlin Zoleske (ER) 6-2, 6-3.

Boys doubles No. 1 — Josh Edwards/Caleb Edwards (C) d. Max Friedl/Tayler Gongelieski 6-2, 6-2.

Boys doubles No. 2 — Jilito Ramos/Sterling Retzlaff (ER) d. Kyle Yockey/Robbie Kosinski (C) 7-6 (7-4), 0-6, 10-5.

Girls doubles No. 1 — Kathryn Bistodeau/Emilee Groth (C) d. Laura Sturley/Kali Spencer (C) 6-0, 6-0.

Girls doubles No. 2 — Kassie Anshutz/Bethany Kesler (C) d. Kristen

Ward/Yaileschka Santiago (ER) 6-0, 6-0.

Mixed doubles — Ryan Winborg/Becky LaRue (C) d. Ray Musik/Luz Mann (ER) 6-4, 6-4.

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