The Lennox High School girls’ tennis team turned in its best State tournament performance in program history as the Orioles traveled to Rapid City Oct. 4-6 to compete in the Class A State Tennis Tournament. Lennox entered the tournament with a 4-5 Class A record and a 4-8 overall record but put together a strong opening day that had the Orioles sitting in third place heading into the second day of competition. Despite several close matches, Lennox narrowly missed a top-four t

The Lennox High School girls’ tennis team traveled to Madison on Thursday, Oct. 1 for their last match of the season. The day kicked off with junior varsity singles with the Orioles taking a 10-6 lead from wins by Sierra Wesseling, Kenzie Bosma, Izzy Gerdes, Tori Gerdes, Marin Bartscher, Karissa Iken, Sophia Onnen, Ava Elk Boy, Lily Kezar and Olivia Wallenstein. In doubles, Madison came away with a 5-4 edge, but wins were earned by Gracie Wood and I. Gerdes, Elk Boy and T.

The Lennox High School girls’ tennis team traveled to Millbank on Sept. 22 to take on the Bulldogs and Aberdeen Roncalli. The day started off with doubles against Millbank, where the Flight #1 duo of Brooke Buehner and Karlie Bosma earned the win 10-5; Flight #3 Kenzie Bosma and Peyton Herlyn took the win 10-6, and Gracie Wood and Izzy Gerdes at Flight #5 earned the win 10-1. In singles, the Bulldogs proved to be too strong this time around as the Orioles could only earn th

The Lennox High School girl’s tennis team went eleven days without any competition until they hosted the Rapid City Lady Comets in Lennox on Sept. 18 for a varsity match up. The dual started with doubles where Brooke Buehner and Karlie Bosma at Flight #1 dropped their match 0-6, 4-6, Maliyah Hofer and Nora Asturiza at Flight #2 dropped their match 0-6, 0-6, and at Flight #3 Peyton Herlyn and Kenzie Bosma were up in both sets and had their chances, but dropped the match 4-6, 3

Karlie Bosma The Orioles girls tennis team hosted Madison Tuesday, Sept. 8 for their senior night. The day started off with JV singles where the Orioles posted a 11-3 lead with wins by Sierra Wesseling, Reba Schroeder, Peyton Herlyn, Kenzi Bosma, Izzy Gerdes, Tori Gerdes, Karissa Iken, Sophia Onnen, Ava Elk Boy, Lily Kezar and Aleysia Young. In JV doubles the Orioles took six of the ten matches with wins by the duos of Wood and I. Gerdes, Alustiza and T. Gerdes, Elk Boy and

Kenzi Bosma and Peyton Herlyn compete in doubles against Yankton last week at home. The Lennox High School girls tennis team opened their season on Aug. 12 taking on St. Thomas More in Mitchell. The match started with doubles where St. Thomas More took the win at all four flights. Flight three doubles, which consisted of Gracie Wood and Izzy Gerdes, went to a match tiebreak and had their chances, but unfortunately dropped the match in the end. In singles, St. Thomas More too

The Lennox High School boys’ tennis team traveled to Rapid City on May 17th -19th for the Class A State tournament. This was a two-day event where each player competed in their corresponding flight in singles and doubles. Lennox earned sixth place as a team with Eli Plank taking third individually and Riley Nelson capturing fourth. “I’m really happy on how we competed and played throughout the whole tournament, and it was exciting to see us perform at a high level at the rig

This past week, Eli Plank (pictured at right) reached 100 varsity wins. Eli has been on varsity since seventh grade and has worked his way up the line up each year and this season he surpassed 100 varsity wins in singles and doubles. Plank is the second player in school history to reach this milestone and now has the second most varsity wins in school history behind his brother, Jaxon Plank. On May 4 the Lennox High School boys’ tennis team took on Sioux Falls Roosevelt in

Riley Nelson gets the hit during play against Milbank On Monday, April 20, the Lennox High School boys’ tennis team traveled to Tomar Park in Sioux Falls for a triangular meet against Mitchell and SF Christian. The varsity squad started the day off playing doubles against Mitchell. The Flight #1 duo of Eli Plank and Wyatt Holland started off strong with a 6-3 first set win, but Mitchell battled back to take the second set 6-1 and the match tie breaker 10-3. Duncan Johnso

The Lennox High School boys’ tennis team hosted Vermillion on Thursday, April 16. The varsity started off with doubles where the team played some smart and consistent points to take the win at all three flights, taking a 3-0 lead into singles. The Orioles kept the momentum going and scored wins from Eli Plank at flight #1, Chase Lundquist at flight #4 and Riley Nelson at flight #6. This gave the team a 6-3 dual win and improved their record to 2-0 on the season. In JV