Knights and Raiders grab sunny day wins

By DONN ADAMSON\Daily Journal Sports Editor

FARMINGTON - The Farmington Knights, after winning their own tennis tourney on Saturday (see related story this page), continued their winning ways by besting the Potosi Trojans 8-1 on Monday.

Potosi's only win came in No. 2 doubles with Nathan Payne and Shea Stark hitting lasers down the alleys past the net play of Farmington's Eric Fuemmeler and Colton Reynolds for an 8-3 win.

The other two doubles were 8-0 shut-outs by the Knights with Brad Green and Simon Hildebrandt winning at No. 1 over John Haguewood and Wil Norveil, and Justin Arnold and Jordan Villmer besting Gary Hollinsworth and Travis Edwards.

Only Edwards put up any struggle for Potosi in the singles matches before falling to Reynolds 8-6 in the No. 6 match. In the other matches: No. 1 - Arnold beat Haguewood 8-1, No. 2 - Green defeated Norveil 8-0, No. 3 - Hildebrandt shut out Payne 8-0, No. 4 - Villmer won 8-3 over Stark, and No. 5 - Fuemmeler dropped Hollinsworth 8-1.

North County 5, Arcadia Valley 4

BONNE TERRE - The North County Raiders and the Arcadia Valley Tigers had to wait until the final serve of their nine matches was made before a winner was definitely decided. The Raiders were able to capture three of the singles matches to go along with their two doubles wins for a 5-4 win over the visitors.

North County's two doubles wins came in No. 1 and No. 2 doubles. Ethan Wegleitner and Robert Lincoln combined for an 8-2 win over Arcadia Valley's Mickey King and Corey Hodzic, and Billy Nobles and Andrew Blunt won by the same score over Chris Barton and Thomas Lambert.

Cameron Crawford and Michael Jones salvaged Arcadia Valley's only doubles win with an 8-5 victory over Steven Edgar and C.J. Rawson.

Lincoln won the No. 2 singles match by an 8-3 score over Hodzic, Nobles shut out Barton 8-0 in No. 3 singles and Edgar won 8-4 over Jones for North County's three singles' wins.

Arcadia Valley won the No. 1 match with King besting Wegleitner 8-1, No. 4 Lambert edged out Greg Stegall 8-6, and Crawford did the same to Blunt in the No. 5 singles.