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Golden Eagles wrap up doubles play at ESD

Aberdeen Central’s Preston Kreber returns a volley during a singles match recently against Aberdeen Roncalli at the Holgate Middle School tennis courts. Kreber was part of a doubles team that finished at the ESD Tournament Wednesday in Mitchell. Photo by John Davis taken 5/2/2023
MITCHELL - Aberdeen Central won a pair of pivotal matches to open up doubles play and finished in third, fourth and fifth place during the Eastern South Dakota Conference tennis tournament at Hitchcock Park Wednesday morning. The Golden Eagles were involved in three matches to start the day that on paper could have gone either way. "You have all three matches in the 4-5 matchup and we had (prior) losses to every opponent," said Central coach Trent Kurtz. "We knew it would be difficult, so to get two of those three, that was good, and we had chances in the third." A pair of Central squads avenged earlier losses with first round victories. Sekou Gogue and Jack Riggs grabbed a 10-4 win at flight two doubles. "Sekou and Jack just absoluately played great tennis at two doubles as a team against a team that beat them earlier in the year," Kurtz said. "Just dominated from the get go." The duo went on to a fourth place finish, losing in a tiebreak in their final match. The du

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