 Bemidji boys tennis is off to an impressive 4-0 start to the season return virtually everyone off last year's roster and with the addition of some new faces along with an old one the Jacks have their goals set high for 2018. Four matches in and Bemidji is impressed on both singles and doubles so far outscoring their opponents 26-2 individually. If you look at the scores it's really promising to see that we really put him away not letting a lot of those teams stick around which is sometimes hard to do against weak opponent. Everyone's back from 2017 along with some hungry youngsters so cracking the lineup will be very competitive. Our depth is so good that everybody's getting pushed every day so it's not you know there are years where you kind of know who your starters are the first day the kids know as well as the coaches do but right now are we have five doubles teams who are going to push each other every day. But even with how deep the Jacks are they're still strong at the top led in singles by the lengthy assassin Spencer Kanishny and the newcomer for an exchange student Nick Buffo. Over the summer I worked a lot on my backhand and ground strokes and my footwork being faster. When you have a real dominant one like like we have in Spencer then it's hard to push them every day in practice and now with Nick here their styles are a little different which is which is nice in a lot of ways because they get to see that you know a different look out on the court every day. Doubles wise senior captain Luke Hess returns from injury joining his brother Silas Ben with Colton McCallichick along with the top pair of veterans Nick Palmer and Cody Hendricks. I think our doubles that have a lot of chemistry the top two doubles they played together last year all through the season so I think they got some good chemistry that they can use to their advantage against other opponents. So with their depth and experience Bemidji is ready to ace their goals. Keeping better throughout the season and then we want to get the section championship go to state make it into that section semi-final make it to that section final and then hopefully we can punch it take it to state. They are set to return the courts to the courts a week from today hopefully outside at the High School Fingers Cross hosting East Grand Forks. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland news please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.