
WARSAW – The stars will be out in full force Friday for the finals after another day of favorites rolling in day two of the Northern Lakes Conference Girls Tennis Championships.
All five of the No. 1 seeds advanced to the finals, setting up some juicy championship matchups for Friday’s finale.
A 1-2 matchup at one singles will have Elkhart Memorial’s Krystal Grubb face off with Plymouth’s Lanae Singleton after Grubb knocked off Warsaw’s Liza Lewis two and love and Singleton escaped Concord’s Alaina Brubaker 7-6 (7-2), 6-1. Grubb has yet to lose a conference match this year in what should be a power-on-power slugfest with the hard-hitting Singleton.
The top two seeds in the two singles bracket will face off as Concord’s Regan Landis had no trouble with Reagan Miller of NorthWood in a one and love final while Warsaw’s Ella Knight also had little trouble putting away Plymouth’s Erin Hunter two and one. Landis and Knight both have similar approaches, using power when necessary, but smart enough to run corners and baselines to gain advantages.
Warsaw’s Alyssa Zellers continues her run at three singles, staying undefeated in NLC play after a one and two win over NorthWood’s Hannah Walter. Zellers will meet Plymouth’s Ashley Harrell, the three seed who dumped Maya Klopfenstein in straight sets as the lone upset in the singles grids.
One doubles went chalk Thursday, as Plymouth’s top seeded duo of Kendall Dreibelbis and McKenzie Scheetz held off NorthWood’s Kennedy Wiens and Jama Rice two and four. Meeting the Plymouth team will be Warsaw’s Athena Schlitt and Colette Smith, looking for regular season redemption after beating Wawasee’s Kendra Doerr and Kabrea Rostochak four and two. The Plymouth team sits undefeated while Warsaw’s lone loss was a three-setter to the Pilgrims.
Concord’s team of Allison Murphy and Megan Godzisz got the biggest scare of the top seeds, needing three sets to put away Warsaw’s Rachel Boyle and Amy Herendeen 6-4, 1-6, 6-3. Meeting the Minutemen in the final will be Plymouth’s Leah Smith and Cortni Cook, the three seed that took out NorthWood’s Betsy Nunemaker and Katie Troyer 7-6 (7-5), 6-4 in just the second upset of the second day.
Taking fifth-place honors in the consolation brackets were Alex Jesse of NorthWood, Lineth Alvarez of Goshen and Sarah Hartman of Northridge in singles play. Memorial’s Maggie Dickerson and Layla Jojo and Northridge’s Dominique Bate and Alpha Slabaugh were doubles consolation winners.

