Wolfpack place 2 at AA tennis

BOZEMAN — As the dust settled at the AA State Tennis Tournament, the Glacier Wolfpack brought home a pair of sixth place individual finishes.

In girls singles, Leilani Lennarz worked her way past Hellgate’s Shaylynn Tolleson-Knee before falling in the consolation semifinals. 

Lennarz also dropped the fifth-place match to Gallatin’s Avery Childre. 

On the boys side, Sam Engellant and Carl Bitney also bring home a sixth-place finish. 

The duo bested Connor Sherman and Michael Waldenberg of CMR before falling in their final two matches at the tournament. 

The Wolfpack boys finished the team competition with six points, placing sixth while Flathead finished with one point. CMR took home the title with 30 points while Bozeman and Billings West finished tied for second at 23. Gallatin finished fourth with 21. 

On the girls side, Glacier ended with five points placing them seventh. Gallatin claimed the title with 32 points with Hellgate second at 29 and Bozeman third with 25. 

Individually, Hellgate’s Elliotte Banziger brought home her third girls singles championship. 

Mason McCarty of Gallatin joined Banziger in the three-time club with a 6-0, 6-0 win in the boys singles final over crosstown rival Harrison Rotar. 

In doubles, Bozeman’s Izabel Barr and Sara Sanford used home court advantage to bring home the title over Gallatin’s Alex and Olivia Mansour. 

In the boys doubles competition, Billings West’s Dallin Abrams and Andersen Hurst needed three sets to take the victory over CMR’s Eli Crist and Brady Pike in the final. Crist was looking to defend his title from a year ago with a new partner after Josh Stimac graduated. 

State AA tennis tournament 

Bozeman and Gallatin High Schools 

Boys singles 

SEMIFINALS — Harrison Rotar, Bozeman def. Ty Graham, Billings West 6-2, 6-3; Mason McCarty, Gallatin def. Jack Currie-Welch, Hellgate 6-2, 6-1. 

CONSOLATION SEMIFINALS — Jack Currie-Welch, Hellgate def. Fleming Daniel, CMR 6-2, 0-6, 6-2; Howard Daniel, CMR def. Ty Graham, West 6-2, 6-2. 

CHAMPIONSHIP — Mason McCarty, Gallatin def. Harrison Rotar, Bozeman 6-0, 6-0. 

THIRD PLACE — Howard Daniel, CMR def. Jack Currie-Welch 6-0, 2-6, 6-4. 

FIFTH PLACE — Ty Graham, West def. Fleming Daniel, CMR via forfeit. 

Boys doubles 

SEMIFINALS — Dallin Abrams and Andersen Hurst, West def. Collin Gross and Oliver Ward, Bozeman 7-5, 3-6, 6-4; Eli Crist and Brady Pike, CMR def. Andrew Duman and Sam Ender, Hellgate 3-6, 6-4, 7-5. 

CONSOLATION SEMIFINALS — Duman and Ender, Hellgate def. Sam Engellant and Carl Bitney, Glacier 6-3, 6-4; Gross and Ward, Bozeman def. Dean Gunderson and Dylan Rosenzweig, Gallatin 6-3, 6-2. 

CHAMPIONSHIP — Abrams and Hurst, West def. Crist and Pike, CMR  

THIRD PLACE — Gross and Ward, Bozeman def. Duman and Ender, Hellgate 7-6 (3), 6-3. 

FIFTH PLACE — Gunderson and Rosenzweig, Gallatin def. Bitney and Engellant, Glacier no score reported. 

Girls singles 

SEMIFINALS — Raena Wilson, Gallatin def. Bella Rogge, Billings Senior 6-2, 6-1; Elliotte Banziger, Hellgate def. Miranda Isenberg, Bozeman 6-0, 3-0 (retired). 

CONSOLATION SEMIFINALS — Isenberg, Bozeman def. Leilani Lennarz, Glacier 7-5, 6-1; Rogge, Senior def. Avery Childre, Gallatin 4-6, 6-4, 6-3. 

CHAMPIONSHIP — Banziger, Hellgate def. Wilson, Gallatin 6-0, 6-2. 

THIRD PLACE — Rogge, Senior def. Isenberg, Bozeman via forfeit. 

FIFTH PLACE — Childre, Gallatin def. Lennarz, Glacier 6-2, 6-2, 

Girls doubles 

SEMIFINALS — Piper Abrams and Cambry Magone, West def. Alex Mansour and Olivia Mansour, Gallatin 6-3, 7-5; Izabel Barr and Sara Sanford, Bozeman def. Kendall Adler and Wesley Banziger, Hellgate 6-0, 6-3. 

CONSOLATION SEMIFINALS — Adler and Banziger, Hellgate def. Grace Kaufmann and Quincy Weymouth, CMR 4-6, 7-5, 6-4; Eloise Bailey and Kennedy Miller, Billings Skyview def. Abrams and Magone, West 6-3, 3-6, 6-3. 

CHAMPIONSHIP — Barr and Sanford, Bozeman def. Alex Mansour and Olivia Mansour, Gallatin 6-4, 6-2. 

THIRD PLACE — Adler and Jane Lowder, Hellgate def. Bailey and Miller, Skyview 7-6 (5), 6-1. *Lowder subbed for Wesley Banziger 

FIFTH PLACE — Kaufmann and Weymouth, CMR def. Abrams and Magone, West 6-4, 6-0.