Spring tennis gives experience

The Green River Wolves tennis team played against a Riverton squad consisting of nine girls Thursday for the last match of their spring season.

According to head tennis coach Phil Harder, each team and player competed in at least three matches for the round robin format.

In the girls singles division, four players competed, two each from Green River and Riverton. Anna Ujuary from Green River finished first while Katie Banks, also from Green River, took second. Harder was pleased with the teams effort, saying "all the doubles matches, a mix of boys and girls, went well and our players executed nicely."

Green River is the only 4A South team to compete in spring tennis, while all the 4A North teams have a spring tennis program.

Harder believes having a spring provides his mostly younger, less experienced athletes the opportunity to "execute what we do in practice in match play and play as many games as possible, due to many of the more experienced older athletes participating in track and soccer in the spring."

While there is no regional or state tournament during the spring season, there will be a Middle School Tennis Camp May 16-19 at Lincoln Middle School from 3:15-4:30 p.m.