The boys tennis teams from Janesville Craig and Janesville Parker were swept in Big Eight Conference tennis matches Tuesday.
The Wildcats swept the host Vikings to open the high school boys tennis season Tuesday.
Janesville Parker returns eight boys tennis players with varsity experience, while Craig has talent, particularly at the top of its lineup, as the high school season is set to begin this week.
The WIAA state boys tennis tournament began Thursday in Madison.
Janesville Craig qualified three singles players and a doubles team, while Janesville Parker advanced one singles player into WIAA sectional tennis play during subsectional play Tuesday.
Verona captured the Big Eight Conference title at the boys tennis meet, which concluded Thursday at the Nielsen Tennis Stadium in Madison. Verona finished with 38 points, edging Sun Prairie and Middleton, which each had 34.
Players make their own calls during the heat of the match
Cougars' Bitter, Pierson go 3-0 at Watertown
Evan Bitter wins at No. 1 singles for the Cougars' lone victory
Memorial defeats Parker; Craig loses to West
Janesville Parker defeated Beloit Memorial in a dual delayed from last Thursday; Craig swept shorthanded Madison East.Â
Max Kisting won two matches, and a pair of Janesville Parker doubles pairings did the same as the Vikings finished sixth out of eight teams in Saturday's Stoughton Invite.Â
Sun Prairie’s boys tennis team blanked Janesville Craig in a Big Eight Conference dual meet Wednesday.
Janesville Craig’s boys tennis team made quick work of Beloit Memorial on Tuesday, winning 6-1.
Parker's Cayden Erickson-Parker Schneider win No. 2 doubles title
The No. 1 singles match in the annual boys tennis crosstown rivalry match lasted nearly two and a half hours before Evan Bitter won in three sets, helping his Janesville Craig team beat Parker 6-1.
The Middleton High boys tennis team did not drop a game Tuesday in a 7-0 sweep of Janesville Craig in a Big Eight Conference dual meet in Middleton.Â
Madison La Follette beat Janesville Parker 7-0 in a Big Eight Conference tennis meet.
The Badgers beat Craig, Milton and Fort Atkinson. Milton went 2-1, while Craig was 1-2.
McFarland won the team title with a 2-0 record, followed by Beloit Memorial and Fort Atkinson at 1-1 and Janesville Parker at 0-2.
Janesville Parker High boys tennis coach Mike Fuhrmann was glad to get back outdoors Thursday, and the Vikings responded with a Big Eight Conference victory.
The Janesville Craig tennis team was competitive in every match but lost to Madison La Follette in the opening Big Eight Conference boys tennis match of the season Thursday.
The 2018 boys tennis season begins today for Janesville Craig and Janesville Parker.
