up, the 2022 season came ….

up, the 2022 season came to an end Tuesday with first-round losses.

In singles, senior Morgan Huegli was the fifth seed in flight one and was defeated 7-5, 6-2 by fourth-seeded Natalie Townsend of Newman Catholic. Huegli finished 8-9 in number-one matches this fall and 10-9 overall.

Senior Makayla Motte was the fifth seed in flight two and was defeated by fourth-seeded Josie Rechek of Altoona 6-0, 6-0.

In flight four, fifth-seeded Christine Czeshinski rebounded from a 6-0 loss in the first set to fourth-seeded Maggie Callaghan of Columbus Catholic and won the second set 6-2 to force a third-set tiebeaker. Callaghan won it 10-4 to advance one more round. It was Callaghan’s third close win over Czeshinski this season and second in five days.

At number-one doubles, fifth-seeded Myah Smith and Masaeda Krug needed just one win to advance and took their first set with Newman Catholic’s Ava Sukanen and Molly Merrill 6-4, but the Cardinals’ team came back with 6-3, 6-2 wins to qualify for the sectional.

Smith, a senior, and Krug, a junior, finished 4-12 together.

Altoona posted the subsectional’s highest team score with 22 points, finishing ahead of Regis-McDonell (16), Newman Catholic (14), Medford and Columbus Catholic (12) and Antigo, Phillips and Ashland, who did not score.

Baldwin-Woodville and Osceola both scored 18 points to share first place at the Baldwin-Woodville subsectional Monday, while Rice Lake was third with 16 points. The team with the highest combined point total after subsectional and sectional play will advance to the WIAA Division 2 state team tournament on Oct. 22. The individual state meet starts on Thursday, Oct. 13.