PIERRE - Aberdeen Central served up a solid start to its tennis season on Friday. The Golden Eagles fell to two-time defending State AA champion Rapid City Stevens 7-2 before blanking Spearfish 9-0.
Even in the setback to Stevens, Central coach John Vogel was happy with how his squad competed.
"We were really pleased with how we played against Stevens," Vogel said. "They’ve been beating us 8-1 for years."
Central won a pair of matches and nearly grabbed a few more.
The day started out with doubles and the Central squad of Laney Gonsor and Olivia Geyer grabbed a tiebreaker victory at third flight. While Vogel said there will be some movement at that flight, he was pleased with what he saw from the duo.
"Olivia Geyer and Laney were impressive," Vogel said.
The Eagles fell in two competitive matches at the other doubles flights, losing one 10-8 and the other 10-7.
"Ones and twos were both down but they came back and played way better the second-half of the match to 
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