Warrior pair falls in state finals
Cedar Rapids Washington’s Rina Moore and Lilly Hartman knew they had a tough task when they faced the top-seeded doubles team from Urbandale in Friday afternoon’s Class 2A state championship.
Madeline Heer and Michelle Van Roekel, after all, had a perfect 17-0 record this season. In the two years they’ve played the together, the two seniors were 32-1. Their only blemish came in last season’s state tournament when they lost to the eventual state champs from Ames in a semifinal match.
To advance into Friday’s finals at the Veterans Memorial Tennis Center, the Urbandale duo had dispatched an Ames tandem that still had one of the girls from the title team.
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