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Panthers' Wahlmeier places fifth in singles
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DODGE CITY –Great Bend's No. 1 singles Kaylin Wahlmeier (3-1) continues to perform well with a fifth-place 8-2 victory over Dodge City’s Ellie Bunkall in Tuesday’s Dodge City Tennis Invitational.  Garden City’s Hailey Brown edged Wahlmeier 8-7 (7-2) in a second round tiebreaker.

Great Bend's No. 1 doubles Taylor Lashley/Samantha Mayers (2-2) placed sixth with a 8-4 loss to Hays High’s Alyse Zimmerman/Kaelin Maier.

Panther Paige Stacey (3-1) defeated Dodge City’s Nila Alvarado 8-6 for ninth place.

Darcy Feist/Mac Lindberg (3-1) also won three matches with a closing 8-1 victory over Cimarron’s Keiry Holguin/Quinn Campbell for ninth place.

Reigning Western Athletic champion Garden City (72) won the team title ahead of Cimarron (52) and Great Bend (40).

Cimarron’s singles champion Emily Goetz defeated Garden City’s Quincy Nanninga, 8-3 for first place. Garden City’s doubles champion Jocelyn Kennedy/Chloe Ptacek defeated their teammates Kourtney Kneeland/Sofia Madilo, 8-1 for first place.

DODGE CITY INVITATIONAL

TEAM SCORES—1—Garden City 72; 2—Cimarron 52; 3—Great Bend 40; 4—Dodge City Red 31; Hays High 31; 6—Liberal 28; 7—Meade 8; 8—Dodge City Blue 3

SINGLES—1—Emily Goetz, Cim def. Quincy Nanninga, GC, 8-3; 3—Danica Galia, GC def. Hailey Brown, GC, 8-6; 5—Kaylin Wahlmeier, GB def. Ellie Bunkall, DCR, 8-2; 7—Angel Myers, Cim def. Kellyn Phan, L, 8-3; 9—Paige Stacey, GB def. Nila Alvarado, DCR, 8-6; 11—Maycie Holdeman, Hays def. Georgia Edmonds, Hays, 8-3; 13—Aby Dyck, Meade def. Kaylee Velasquez, L, 8-4; 15—Faith Woydziak, DC def. Valerie Reyes, DCB, 8-7 (7-2)  

PANTHER RESULTS—Wahlmeier def. Reyes, 8-0; Brown def. Wahlmeier, 8-7 (7-2); Wahlmeier def. Myers, 8-4; Galia def. Stacey, 8-6; Stacey def. Edmonds, 8-1; Stacey def. Velasquez, 8-1

DOUBLES—1—Jocelyn Kennedy/Chloe Ptacek, GC def. Kourtney Kneeland/Sofia Madilo, GC, 8-1; 3—Keira Buchholz/Zoey Jantz, Cim def. Kylee Hammel/Nathalie DonJuan, L, 8-4; 5—Alyse Zimmerman/Kaelin Maier, Hays def. Taylor Lashley/Samantha Mayers, GB, 8-4; 7— Jessica Rivera/Kaylee Velasquez, DCR def. Jaiden Pfannenstiel/Kinlee May, Hays, 8-5; 9—Darcy Feist/Mac Lindberg, GB def. Keiry Holguin/Quinn Campbell, Cim, 8-1; 11—Holly Reimer/Bethany Reimer, Meade def. Jana Calderon/Stephanie Hernandez, DCR, 8-3; 13—Karime Ojeda/Natalie Zuniga, L def. Evelyn Arredondo/Zoe Rojas, DCB, 8-3; 15—Yaremy Macias/Katie Rouse, DCW def. Ashley Acosta/Maria Pablo/Pablo, DCB, 8-3

PANTHER RESULTS—Lashley/Mayers def. Ojeda/Zuniga, 8-0; Kneeland/Madilo def. Lashley/Mayers, 8-0; Lashley/Mayers def. Rivera/Velasquez, 8-6; Zimmerman/Maier def. Feist/Lindberg, 8-4; Feist/Lindberg def. Acosta/Pablo Pablo, 8-2; Feist/Lindberg def. Calderon/Hernandez, 8-7 (7-1)