title, at the Northwest Suburban Girls Tennis Tournament on July 7-8 in Elk River.
All are members of the Elk River tennis team, as are singles runner-up Michaela Schultz, and the third-place doubles
team of Leah Koehler and Collette Forsyth.
Grace Zachman (left) and Marlene Miller were doubles champions. (Photo by Bruce Strand)
"Elk River had a good tournament," said Blake Iserman, Elk girls coach and the NWS tournament director. "About 50
percent (of the entrants) were from Elk River and our players acquitted themselves real well."
In the singles finals, Brown, junior-to-be who played No. 2 singles for the Elks' state tournament team last year, beat
Schultz, who's going into eighth grade and played No. 4 singles last year.
Placing third was Kayla Buckley of St. Michael-Albertville. The consolation champion was Lisa Scheevel of St. Cloud.
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Millner and Zachman, both juniors-to-be at ERHS, beat Koehler and Forsyth and an Alexandria team to reach the finals,where they topped another Alexandria team, Emily Wllkins and Eve Hartsell, 6-4, 6-3, keyed by strong play at the net.
The doubles consolation winners were Kate O'Connell and McKail Granning, also of Elk River.
The field had 20 singles players, and 16 doubles teams.
