The Community School girls had a big day, and the Cut-throat boys earned a close team win over the host Gooding Senators Tuesday in a 4th Dis-trict 3A prep tennis dual meet featuring a mixture of pro sets and three-game matches.
It represented the first team victory of the spring for coach Phil Huss' Cutthroats (1-2 over-all). Earlier, the 3A Sun Valley squad dropped non-conference dual meets to 4A Mountain Home 7-5 and 4A Canyon Ridge of Twin Falls 8-4.
Tuesday the Cutthroat girls won 5.5-0.5 and the Sun Valley boys managed a 3.5-2.5 victory thanks to a half-point gained by the No. 2 mixed doubles tri-umph of Jake Flaherty and Jolie Blair (8-4 pro set). Final combined score was 9-3 in favor of the Cutthroats.
Girls' singles winners were No. 1 Noe Garing (6-3, 6-4), No. 2 Gina Rickling (6-0, 6-1) and No. 3 Chloe Francois (8-3). The Cut-throats swept girls' doubles with No. 1 Paige Riedinger-Taylor Figge (6-2, 6-3) and No. 2 Ella Marks-Maddie Caraluzzi (8-0).
Boys' singles successes came from No. 1 Zach Lindahl (6-4, 6-1), No. 2 Averell Tian (6-4, 5-7, 6-2) and No. 3 Doug DuFur (8-2).
The Cutthroats visited Can-yon Ridge on Thursday. On March 17, the Riverhawk boys defeated the Cutthroat boys 4.5-1.5 and the Canyon Ridge girls eked out a 3.5-2.5 win.
Cutthroat winners that day were Riedinger-Figge and Marks-Caraluzzi in girls' dou-bles; Reed Roudabush-Rickling in mixed; plus No. 1 boys' sin-gles and last year's district sin-gles runner-up Tim Kanellitsas (6-1, 6-4).
Gabi Perenchio, Chloe Chry-sikopoulos, Morgan Jones, Zack Lewis and Lindahl were the other Cutthroat singles players that St. Patrick's Day. Tom Crosby-Gray Riedinger, Henry Richbeil-Averell Tian and Nick Wright-Noe Garing played doubles.
