SPRINGFIELD - Alton’s girls tennis team had an outstanding weekend at the Springfield Invitational girls tennis tournament.
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Friday’s doubles competition saw senior twin sisters Cali and Mackenzie Girtz reach the final before falling to Triad 3-6, 1-6; Val Walters/Nikki Lowe finished fourth in the competition, dropping the third-place match to Washington and Hannah Macias/Maddie Saenz finished fifth after defeating Effingham in the fifth-place match on the day.
Saturday’s singles competition saw Saenz get to the final at No. 2 competition, taking a 4-6, 2-6 loss to Moline’s Monica Birski; she defeated competitors from Springfield Sacred Heart-Griffin, Triad and Washington en route to the final. Macias finished third in the No. 1 singles bracket, defeating Chatham Glenwood’s Hannah Riegel in the third-place match while Lowe finished third at No. 3 singles, falling to Effingham’s Skylar Schafer in that competition and Mackenzie Girtz took sixth in the No. 4 singles competition, going 2-2 in that bracket.
The Redbirds visit Jersey at 4 p.m. today in a dual meet.
