By DONN ADAMSON
Daily Journal Sports Editor

Published: Wednesday, September 02, 2009
Updated: Wednesday, September 2, 2009 11:50 AM CDT

FARMINGTON — The Farmington Knights held their annual boys soccer tournament, starting on Tuesday with the final games to be played on Thursday. The Knights will be in the 6:30 p.m. championship game against Windsor after downing the Fredericktown Blackcats by a score of 6-0.

Goalkeeper John Schnurbusch had to make only two saves to preserve the win for Farmington, but the big story was on the other end of the field where Pete Grindel was having a hay-day making goals.

Grindel scored the first five goals for the Knights with Will Hitson scoring the last one. Grindel scored all three of the first-half goals, and had assists from Trevor Ratliff with two and Alex Rhodes and Dylan Elders with one each. Grindel assisted on Hitson’s goal.

TENNIS

Fredericktown 6, North County 3

BONNE TERRE — All three of the doubles matches between the North County Lady Raiders and the Fredericktown Lady Cats were close contests with Fredericktown sweeping all three in their meet on Tuesday. The two teams split the singles matches.

Asha Ayyagari and Samantha Pinckley teamed up to win the No. 1 doubles 8-5 over Shelby Mund and Brittany Ford. Alison Clover and Cristen Pense scraped by Alyssa Yates and Alex Perry 9-7 in No. 2 doubles, and Kaycelyn Alexander and Caitlin Neubrand won by 2 games, 8-6, over Brittany Rawson and Amber Poindexter at No. 3 doubles. 

In singles North County won the No. 1 singles with Mund defeating Ayyagari 8-5, the No. 5 singles with Rawson downing Alexander 8-2, and Poindexter at No. 6 singles besting Neubrand 8-3.

For Fredericktown, Pinckley was an 8-4 winner over Ford in No. 2 singles, Clover won 8-1 at No. 3 over Yates, and Pense bested Perry 8-5 in No. 4 singles.

North Count’s next meet will be on Tuesday at Potosi. Fredericktown is scheduled to travel to Arcadia Valley on Thursday. 

Potosi 8, Arcadia Valley 1

POTOSI — The Arcadia Valley Lady Tigers tennis team is still shorthanded and they had to forfeit three of their matches, contributing to a 8-1 loss to the Potosi Lady Trojans on Tuesday.

In the matches played, the Lady Trojans won all but one match with Alyssa Waddell winning the No. 1 singles 8-4 over Kelsey Fitzwater for Arcadia Valley’s lone win.

Melissa McGuire teamed up with Fitzwater in No. 1 doubles for an 8-2 win over Kassie Leahy and Waddell. Olivia Kwan and Paris Doty combined for the second doubles win of 8-5 over Rachel Reynolds and Wickerham.

McGuire defeated Leahy in No. 2 singles 8-2, Kwan doubled up Reynolds 8-4, and Kayla Doss defeated Wickerham by the same score in No. 4 singles.

Potosi plays next at Farmington on Thursday. Arcadia Valley hopes to have their fifth player ready for competition at home on Thursday against Fredericktown.