SARTELL — Liz Peterson and Lilly Caron ended their Bemidji High School girls tennis careers on a high note.
The senior duo took third place in the Section 8-3A Individual Tournament on Monday in Sartell, beating Buffalo’s Maddie Kuzma and Sabrina Friesz 6-1, 6-1.
Peterson and Caron missed out on a spot in the section championship in a three-set loss against Alexandria’s Lucy Witte and Lily Eken, falling by scores of 6-4, 2-6 and 6-4. Witte and Eken lost to teammates Addison and Kennedy Stevenson in the championship match.
Peterson and Caron swept Buffalo’s Sadie Scherber and Payton Millerbernd in their first match, 6-0, 6-0. In their second match, they took down Monticello’s Taylor Marcus and Hope Vergin 6-3, 6-2, then fell to Witte and Eken in the semifinals.
Bemidji’s Millie Knott and Zoe McNallan lost in three sets against Kuzma and Friesz in their first and only match of the tournament.
In the singles tournament, Bailey Rupp beat Moorhead’s Lauren Palmer 6-1, 6-4 in the first round, but fell to Brainerd’s Taryn Mithun 6-4, 6-4 to end her tournament run. Grace Bamba Lucas lost her first and only match against St. Michael-Albertville’s Bryn Bartus (6-1, 6-0).
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