While the unseasonal cold and wet weather has slowed the progress of spring sports, the Aberdeen Central boys' tennis team is actually ahead of schedule. The Golden Eagles start their season with a total of four matches today and Friday at the West River Invitational in Rapid City, and they appear to be ready to go. "Even though we haven’t been able to be outside for practice, I think we’re further along than we are in a lot of years," said Central coach Trent Kurtz. There are a couple of reasons for that, the main one being time spent playing indoors this winters and staying close to the game. "I think we’ve made better strides as far as skill level from the end of last season to the beginning of this season than we have in several of my years here," Kurtz said. "We had more kids that played this winter." Not only that, but the Eagles feature a squad comprised of multi-sport athletes who are never really out of shape. "Athletically, we’re further along that w