Washburn moves to 10-3 with a hard fought win over Holy Family. Despite missing players due to injury, Washburn managed a close 4-3 victory over Holy Family Friday. Rafa Malewicz led the way with a convincing victory in singles. Washburn now sets its sights on today’s tournament in Rochester.
Led by senior Andy Pulkrabek’s last conference match, the Millers ran their consecutive conference streak to 27 straight victories over a five year span with their convincing 7-0 victory over previously undefeated Minneapolis Edison. See Minnesota Prep Spotlight video highlighting Washburn Players Andy Pulkrabek & Rafa Malewicz. Click here to watch Washburn spotlight.
Overall the Millers won 84 of the 101 games played, not dropping a set. Two 8th graders, Eli Zukor-Zimmerman and Max Loesch spearheaded the lopsided win with their wins at 3rd and 4th singles respectively. The win gives Washburn a 9-3 record with a match against Holy Family coming Friday to finish out the week. The varsity then heads to Rochester Mayo for a tournament with a loaded field that will include 4 of the top 10 class AA teams in state.
The Washburn Millers JV Blue team hosted a match against Cretin-Derham Hall’s JV(B) team. Washburn‘s singles lineup of Eli Zukor-Zimmermann, Vaughn Smith, Fletcher Thomas, and Luca Cordova Stuart clinched the win for the team and Evan Walker and Jack Redepenning scored a win at #3 doubles to give the Millers a 5-2 victory.
Spearheaded by Henry Smith’s return to the singles lineup, Washburn defeated Burnsville 6-1 Monday in Burnsville. Washburn had five matches where they lost 3 or fewer games en route to their win against their sectional foe. Next up is a scrimmage on Wednesday against Hastings
(MINNEAPOLIS) Coming off of a big tournament weekend win in Alexandria, the Washburn JV Tennis Team (6-1) hosted a match against the Burnsville Blaze. Lead by a quick wins from David Hovis (9) and the team of Ben Anderson (8)/Emerson Roy (8), the Millers blazed a 7-0 victory.
(ALEXANDRIA, MN) The Washburn Millers JV team hit the road to Alexandria to play a quad against Litchfield, Crookston and host team Alexandria. The tournament started against Alexandria where the Millers put up a convincing 7-0 win. Big wins included a 8-1 win for Aaron Walker (9) and an 8-0 win for Fletcher Thomas (9)/Tom Mullin (8).
Washburn had Crookston up next, who proved to be the toughest match of the day. The Millers pulled out a 4-3 win clinched by the doubles team of Luke Hollister (11) and Max Loesch (8). The Millers had other wins from Ben Katzman (11), Aaron Walker (9) and Tom Mullin (8).
Washburn finished out the quad against Litchfield. Washburn clinched the match and tournament win with a decisive 6-1 victory over Dragons.
Overall, the Millers went 17-4 for the tournament and saw Ben Katzman (11), Aaron Walker (9) and Tom Mullin (8) all go 3-0 for the day.
(BLOOMINGTON, MN) The Miller’s JV tennis team traveled to Bloomington to take on the Bloomington Jefferson Jaguars. The Millers were lead to a 5-2 victory with wins in singles by David Hovis (9), Ben Anderson (8), Eli Zukor Zimmerman (8) and the doubles teams of Ben Katzman (11)/Aaron Walker (9) and Vaughn Smith (11)/Tom Mullin (8).
The Washburn tennis team made it five straight years with their 7-0 win over southwest. They managed to do so without dropping a set for the second straight year. With the win, they now are tie for first place in the conference and can move into the top position with a win against undefeated Edison this week Click here to watch MN Prep Spotlight preview of the match.
The boys went 1-2 this weekend in Sioux Falls falling to Sioux Falls Lincoln and Sioux Falls O’Gorman by identical 4-3 scores. Despite the losses the team came away optimistic due to their competitive scores against the two top ranked teams in all of South Dakota.
Against Sioux Falls Christian, Eli Haugland notched his first official varsity win of the year at 5 singles, while David Hovis traveled with the varsity for the first time and lost a heart breaker at 6 singles 10-8 in the third.
The boys have a busy week with three matches, one scrimmage and a tournament this week.
The Washburn Millers JV team (1-1) took on rival Southwest for the JV City Conference Championship. With big wins from #1 singles, #2 singles, and all the doubles teams, Washburn secured a 6th straight JV City Conference Championship with a 5-2 victory.