Rylin Arnel
This past week, the Green River Spring Tennis Program had a busy culminating last week with a dual match against Rock Springs as well as a Quad Invitational at Green River High School.
Competing against Rock Springs, the Wolves faced off with high school, junior high and sixth through eighth grade players. The Green River teams tended to dominate at the upper level of play, while the Rock Springs teams were stronger at the high school level at the middle and lower levels in the Varsity and Junior Varsity play. Green River's middle school players, including sixth through eighth graders, won eight of nine matches and tied one.
For Green River High School, the boys were led by Dylan Archibald while the Lady Wolves were led by Rylan Arnell.
The Doubles teams of Johnathan Myers and Gabe Maez and Aden and Andrew Neher also won matches and played well for the Wolves Varsity. For the girls, Rylin Arnell and Brynley Beutel dominated their Doubles match, winning by a 4-0 score.
For the J.V. boys, the teams of Blaise Taylor and Spencer Morrell and Taydon Eagler and Issa Lujan both won their matches by a 4-1 score, while for the J.V. girls Ashlee Anderson and Emma Johnson and Abbie Davis and Rylie Caldwell also won matches by scores of 4-2 and 4-1 respectively.
In the middle school division, Green River dominated, winning 21 of their 26 matches. Finally in the C and D division the Wolves won eight matches and tied one as Green River also dominated this division.
Head Tennis Coach Phil Harder was very pleased with the efforts produced from the Spring Tennis program for this meet.
On Saturday the Wolves hosted a Quad Invitational with teams from Laramie, Jackson, Rawlins, Cheyenne East and Cheyenne Central. Jackson and Central had solid results on the day, as did the host Wolves.
Coach Harder had positive comments following comments at the conclusion of the Spring Tennis Season.
"What a beautiful day to end our spring season," he said. "We played some high quality tennis for spring and it's exciting because we have a summer to fine tune before fall season."
Coach Harder went on to comment that Dylan Archibald and Rylin Arnel "played consistent singles," saying it "will be fun to see how far they go this fall."
He also highlighted Kaiden Dodson and Tanner Hokanson, who "played fun doubles," and Aiden Neher, who "also played some good singles."
The coach added that "Brynley Beutel is a solid player for us -- nice serve and solid backhand."
Also, Coach Harder felt that the middle school athletes had a great season.
"They played this weekend and showcased some impressive skill going into fall," he said, concluding that "we have some really good eighth graders coming into the program."
The fall tennis season will begin practice in August.
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