Stevens in 7th place after Day 1 of Class AA state tennis tournament

The Raiders accumulated 155 points and trail current No. 1 Sioux Falls Lincoln by 205 points. 

In singles, Nolan Rehorst beat Watertown's Curtis Sneden 6-4, 6-3 in the Flight 1 first round before falling to top-seeded Rocky McKenzie of Lincoln 6-0, 6-1 in the quarterfinals and to Brandon Valley's Eli Woidyla 10-5 in the fifth-place semifinals.

Tristan Eizinger dropped a three-set thriller, 6-4, 3-6, 7-10, to Mitchell's Jager Juracek in the Flight 2 first round before bouncing back with a 10-4 victory over Brooking's Braylon Peters in the consolation semifinals after receiving a bye in the consolations quarterfinals.

Dayler Segrist won his opening-round match at Flight 3, 6-0, 6-3, over Sioux Falls Jefferson's Dawson McCaulley, before losing to Harrisburg's Maverik Ragon 6-3, 6-4 in the quarterfinals. He then beat Brandon Valley's Gibsen Eszlinger 10-4 in the fifth-place semifinals.

Max Phares rebounded from a 6-3, 6-0 loss to Brandon Valley's Ben Gromer in the Flight 4 first round by edging Sioux Falls Roosevelt's Caden Patzwald 10-7 in the consolation semifinals after receiving a bye in the consolations quarterfinals.

Josh Mueller topped Watertown's Tyler Dingsor 6-2, 6-4 in the Flight 5 opening round before falling to top-seeded Christopher Tao of Lincoln 6-2, 6-1 in the quarterfinals. He then bested Brandon Valley's Lucas Fogarty 10-7 in the fifth-place semifinals.

Isaac Wright, the No. 3 seed in Flight 6, remains the only Stevens player left in the main draw. He beat Sioux Falls Washington's Austin Sorgdrager 6-0, 6-2 in the first round and Watertown's Joey Meester 6-1, 6-0 in the quarterfinals to set up a semifinal clash with No. 2 seed Samuel Hayden of O'Gorman on Friday.

In doubles, the Flight 1 team of Rehorst and Eizinger edged Aberdeen Central 10-7 in the first round before falling to top-seeded Lincoln 10-3 in the quarterfinals, the Flight 2 team of Segrist and Phares bested Jefferson 10-4 in the first round before losing to Washington 10-3 in the quarterfinals and the Flight 3 team of Wright and Landin Roozenboom beat Washington 10-7 in the opening round before falling to O'Gorman 10-4 in the quarterfinals.

Rapid City Central sits in 14th place out of 14 schools with three points. The Cobblers' only points came in Flight 6 singles where Peyton Taylor, who after losing in the first round, upset Brookings' Jean-Claude St. Pierre 10-7 in the consolation quarterfinals. Taylor went on to fall to Yankton's Ethan Marsh 10-0 in the consolation semifinals.

The second and final day of the tournament gets underway Friday morning.