At Gwinn, despite a strong singles performance on Thursday, the Gwinn High School boys tennis team fell to Iron Mountain 5-3 at the GHS tennis courts.

Gwinn head coach Dan Turecky said his singles team is getting better each and every match.

“My singles players are improving tremendously as the season progresses,” he said. “We won three of the four singles flights. It was another unusually cool and windy day on the courts.”

The Modeltowners’ three singles victories came in the Nos. 2, 3 and 4 slots.

In No. 2 singles, it was a three-set battle with Jared Rowland defeating Shane Brooks 4-6, 6-3, 6-2.

“I was especially impressed with Jared in a three-set come-from-behind victory,” Turecky said.

No. 3 saw Austin Forbes defeat Dominic Schinderle 6-0, 6-2 while Chase Jensen defeated Blake Julian 7-6, 6-3 in No. 4.

Iron Mountain’s lone singles victory came at No. 1 with Ryan Kakamaki defeating Jacob Porubsky 6-4, 7-6.

The Mountaineers had the upper-hand in doubles however, taking all four matches, three of which came by default.

The only tight match was No. 1 doubles which saw Iron Mountain’s Dakota Galeazzi and Joey Bogaudo defeat Mason Bockert and Tucker Taylor in a three-set match that lasted two hours 6-4, 4-6, 6-4.

Turecky said the defaults were due to other obligations from his student-athletes.

“We were short-staffed as most of our doubles teams were either in the school play or finishing up drivers education, so we had to default three flights of doubles,” he said.

Gwinn hosts Ishpeming on Tuesday.

Information compiled by Journal Sports Writer Ryan Spitza. Email him at sports@miningjournal.net.