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Blades & Hoyt finish 4th

Sat - 25 May Written by Jim Ecker

Linn-Mar junior Brady Anderson flashed a shy, almost embarrassed smile after he cruised to the Class 2A state tennis title Saturday afternoon at Coe College.

He should have done back-flips, but that's not his style.

Anderson overwhelmed Pleasant Valley freshman Charlie Humes, 6-0, 6-0, in the championship match to become the first player in 58 years to capture the title without losing a single game in the finals.

He also became the first state singles champion from Linn-Mar since Hunter Skogman claimed top honors in 1998.

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Blades & Hoyt into state semis

Fri - 24 May Written by Jim Ecker

Brady Anderson began banging a tennis ball around when he was about 7 years old. He's gotten pretty good at it over the years.

The Linn-Mar junior won both of his matches at the Class 2A state tournament Friday at the Veterans Memorial Tennis Center and will play in the semifinals Saturday at 10 a.m.

Anderson, the No.1 seed, will face No.4 seed David DiLeo of Iowa City West in a battle to see who makes the finals at 2 p.m.

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Warriors top J-Hawks in fierce winds

Sat - 11 May Written by Tom Fruehling

Trying to play tennis Saturday morning at the Veterans Memorial Tennis Center was like hitting a ping-pong ball in a wind tunnel.

Under gale-force conditions, the Washington boys breezed by Jefferson 5-0 in a preliminary substate team match and moved on to play again next Saturday.

The Warriors will play Linn-Mar in a substate semifinal next Saturday at Kennedy. The winner of that match will face the winner between Cedar Falls and Clinton on Saturday afternoon at Kennedy for the right to advance to the state team tournament.

Gusty winds on the hill-top courts Saturday blew the ball about like a badminton birdie. Serves sailed into the backcourt, high lobs flew away and drop shots bounced every which direction.

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Blades & Hoyt win district doubles title

Thu - 09 May Written by Metro Sports Report

Washington's Mitch Blades and Jackson Hoyt won the doubles championship Thursday in the Class 2A boys tennis district meet at Westfield Tennis Center.

The team of Blades and Hoyt qualified for the state singles and doubles tournament May 24-25 at Vets Tennis Center in Cedar Rapids.

Blades and Hoyt were seeded No.1, but they lost the first set of the championship match, 6-1, to the second-seeded Cedar Falls duo of James McManus and Roy Ju.

But the Warriors rallied to win the next two sets, 6-3 and 6-4, to win the match.

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