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McCluer North Hosts District Girls Tennis, Girls Golf At Crystal Springs Quarry
By Jim Wieners
McCluer North is one of 32 sites, 16 per class, that will be hosting District Girls Tennis, which begins Sept. 28 with the first round of team tournaments and end Oct. 3 with inidvidual (singles, doubles) tournament finals.
Joining McCluer North in Class Two, District Four will be Hazelwood Central, Hazelwood East, Hazelwood West, McCluer and Ritenour. In Class One Lutheran North will host Class Five, likely to be played at Forestwood Park, Ferguson, and Incarnate Word Academy, McCluer South-Berkeley and Riverview Gardens are the participating North County high schools. Also in Class One North Tech, making their first girls district appearance, is scheduled to be in District Seven, hosted by Lake St. Louis-based Liberty, the newest Wentzville District High School.
Seedings and parings for team dual meets were not available as of Sept. 21, 2:30 p.m. but the top two seeds will get a first-round bye and open play in the semifnals Sept. 29. Weather permitting the team dual tournament is to end Sept. 30 while indivdual tournament play, two singles players and two doubles teams per school, follows the team tournament and closes Oct. 3. The host team or the higher seeded sites will host team tournament matches and the host team hosts the individual tournaments.
District dual team championns will compete in Team Sectionals Oct. 10 at the winners of Districts Two, Six, 10 and 14, all classes. The top two district singles players and doubles teams will play in the sectional round Oct. 5-7 at St. Joseph’s Academy (Class Two), Lutheran North (Forestwood Park) and Liberty. Sectional winners, all classes, advance to state at Cooper Tennis Complex, Springfield Oct 15 (team), 16-17 (singles, doubles).
Last year Barbara Boehm, McCluer North, finished fifth in Class Two State Tennis Singles.
DISTRICT GIRLS GOLF — Hazelwood Central, Hazelwood East, Hazelwood West, Incarnate Word Academy and McCluer North are assigned to compete in Class Two, District Three, a 12-team tournament, May 29, 8 a.m., at Crystal Springs Quarry Golf Club, Maryland Heights. The top two district finishing teams and the top 15 golfers from teams finishing third or lower will compete Oct. 5, possibly 8 a.m. in Sectional Two at Wolf Hollow Country Club, Labadie (Franklin County) against qualifiers from District Four. The top two sectional teams and top 12 indivduals, from sectional qualifying teams or teams with only individual qualifiers, advance to the state championships Oct. 12-13, 8:30 a.m. at Rivercut Golf Course, Springfield.
Golf teams that finish third or lower in districts and/or sectionals but qualify four or five golfers to sectionals or state will be in sectional and/or state team competition.
