PORTLAND HIGH SCHOOL 7, IONIA HIGH SCHOOL 1

Singles

No. 1 - Aryan Virk, PORTLAND HIGH SCHOOL def. Jack Eppler, IONIA HIGH SCHOOL, 6-2, 6-1, -;

No. 2 - Jack Roe, PORTLAND HIGH SCHOOL def. Sam Eppler, IONIA HIGH SCHOOL, 6-1, 6-2, -;

No. 3 - Brett Longanbach, IONIA HIGH SCHOOL def. Ryan Leonard, PORTLAND HIGH SCHOOL, 6-2, 6-4, -;

No. 4 - Jorgen Sonday, PORTLAND HIGH SCHOOL def. Connor Hubaker, IONIA HIGH SCHOOL, 7-5, 6-3, -;

Doubles

No. 1 - Gabe Hankey - Marty Thelen, PORTLAND HIGH SCHOOL def. Nathan Morris - Collin Palmer, IONIA HIGH SCHOOL, 6-1, 6-0, -;

No. 2 - Kurt Kraczon - Alex Russman, PORTLAND HIGH SCHOOL def. Ethan Rowland - Ben Marhofer, IONIA HIGH SCHOOL, 6-0, 6-0, -;

No. 3 - Joe Lorenz - Cadin Cross, PORTLAND HIGH SCHOOL def. Brett Peterson - Miles Gregory, IONIA HIGH SCHOOL, 6-0, 6-1, -;

No. 4 - Kai Kipp - Casey Smith, PORTLAND HIGH SCHOOL def. Adam Bliss - Colter Clark, IONIA HIGH SCHOOL, 6-1, 6-1, -;

Portland boy's tennis played Ionia Monday night in our second league match of the season. Tennis can be an interesting sport when it comes to expectations. We've won against Ionia pretty easily in the past and I think we have a very strong team this year. But it only takes one new and strong player in a line-up to change all of that around. Ionia showed some signs of having those players in this match. They have a very strong freshman class that is bringing some talent to their team. We ended up winning this one, but we had a few more struggles than in the past. This is going to be a tough team to beat in a couple of years. This brings us to 2-0 in our league matches with only Eaton Rapids left to play. We'll see them Wednesday at home.