Great Bend girls tennis coach Zachary Bartel was optimistic for a strong 2024 season.

So far, Bartel's forecast is accurate.

Great Bend's girls swept both doubles divisions and won a tiebreaker at No. 2 singles to dominate the Great Bend Round Robin with 25 points with Hays High (14) placing runner-up. The Panthers executed a solid serving game and minimized mistakes during the 90-degree afternoon.

No. 1 doubles Darcy Feist/Mac Lindberg used the lefty (Feist) and righty (Lindberg) combination to perfection with a 25-6 game advantage. They downed Hays High's Kaelin Maier/Alyse Zimmerman 8-4 for first place. No. 2 doubles  Mackenzie LaViolette/Kylie McCormick defeated Hays High's Kallyn Meyers/Tori Miller, Hays in the championship match. LaViolette/ McCormick outscored three teams 24-12.

No. 2 singles Clarice Snapp (2-1) lost to Beloit's Ella Manning 8-6, but won a 3-way tiebreaker on winning percentage. Snapp won 22 of 35 games played, Manning 23-16 and Hays High's Maycie Holdeman finished 20-20.

Dodge City's Ellie Bunkall outlasted Great Bend's Paige Stacey 8-7 (11-9) in the tightest match of the afternoon.

GREAT BEND ROUND ROBIN

TEAM TOTALS—1—Great Bend 25; 2—Hays High 14; 3—Dodge City 12; 4—Beloit 9 

NO. 1 SINGLES—1—Ellie Bunkall, DC def. Paige Stacey, GB,, 8-7 (11-9); Stacey def. Isabelle Jones, HH, 8-5; Stacey def. Mya Mihm, Beloit, 8-3 

NO. 2 SINGLES—1—Clarise Snapp, GB def. Maycie Holdeman, HH, 8-4; Ella Manning, Beloit def. Snapp, 8-6; Snapp def. Faith Woydziak, DC, 8-1

NO. 1 DOUBLES—1—Darcy Feist/Mac Lindberg, GB def. Kaelin Maier/Alyse Zimmerman, HH, 8-4; Feist/Lindberg def. Saige Heiman/Cassandra Thompson, Beloit, 8-0; Feist/Lindberg def. Katie Rouse/Maria Pablo, DC, 8-1

NO. 2 DOUBLES—1—Mackenzie LaViolette/Kylie McCormick, GB def. Kallyn Meyers/Tori Miller, Hays, 8-6; LaViolette/McCormick def. Emersyn Fuller/Barklee McMillan, Beloit, 8-3; LaViolette/McCormick def. Marisol Baunelos/Shyanne Solomon, DC, 8-3