HCHS Boy's Tennis Lose Season Opener to Abe Lincoln

Coach Bruns' comments:

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First of all, it is great to be back on court! After having no season last year, our team and all teams of course, are completely different with Freshemen and Sophomores having never played a tennis season before. Due to this, our team is quite inexperienced but all are willing to work hard to improve and that is exactly what we will strive to do with each meet. 

Our only two returning varsity players are four time letterwinners Brock Bruns and Mitchell Rueschenberg. They will lead us this year as our number one and two players. Nolan Blum and Nick Anderson have been on the team previous years but this is their first year playing Varsity. The rest of the team are all first year tennis players including first year Varsity players Stephen Leinen(10th) and Keyton Francis(10th).

We ran into a good team in Abe Lincoln on Tuesday(March 30). They outplayed us at every postition. I thought Mitchell Rueschenberg played a great match. He was up 6-5 but lost the next three games to lose 6-8. It was a great effort and one that can build confidence as we continue on the season. Brock's match against Dalton Pregon seemed much closer than the score indicated. It was close early but Dalton won the big points in the close games and pulled away. Dalton is one of the top players in Soutwest Iowa and has a great shot of making State Tennis in the bigger(2A) schools.

I also want to give a big shout out to the JV team. They won 7-2 which is quite impressive since everyone won at least two matches and this is everone's first year on the team.

AL Varsity won the meet 9-0. The Cyclones are now 0-1 on the season.

Varsity Singles:

#1  Brock Bruns lost 2-8 to Dalton Pregon

#2  Mitchell Rueschenberg lost 6-8 to Carter James

#3  Stephen Leinen lost 0-8 to Chris Wailes

#4  Nolan Blum lost 1-8 to Jude Ryan

#5  Keyton Francis lost 0-8 to Ty James

#6  Nick Anderson lost 1-8 to Bracken Mohr

Varsity Doubles:

#1  Brock Bruns/Mitchell Rueschenberg lost 3-8 to Pregon/Ryan

#2  Stephen Leinen/Nolan Blum lost 3-8 to C. James/Wailes

#3  Keyton Francis/Nick Andersen lost 4-8 to T. James/Mohr

JV won their meet 7-2 and are now 1-0 on the season.

JV Singles:

Eric Torneten won 6-4 over Mason Garrens

Edgar Mena won 6-0 over Connor Tichota

Edgar Mena won 6-1 over Cole Schroeder

Brayton Cooper won 6-0 over Adrian Weelbury

JV Doubles:

Andrew Andersen/Teagan Steinkuehler won 6-2 over Landon Williams/Joey Podraza

Eric Torneten/Brayton Cooper lost 2-6 to Tyler Powers/Blake Higgins

Eric Torneten/Brayton Cooper won 6-0 over Adrian Weelbury/Granmark Bolugot

Andrew Andersen/Teagan Steinkuehler lost 3-6 to Tyler Powers/Blake Higgins

Tyler Powers/Blake Higgins won 6-3 over Mason Garreans/Atticus Walker