From Register Staff Reports

WATERTOWN – The host Arrows edged the Bobcats 5-4 in a boys’ tennis dual Thursday.

Watertown won two of the three doubles matches and the teams split the six singles matchups.

Brookings’ Jonah Dobbs swept Dylan Hillberg 6-2, 6-3 at No. 1 singles.

Dalton Rittershaus dropped Jordan Urban 6-4, 6-3 at No. 2.

Dobbs and Rittershaus teamed for a 7-5, 6-4 victory over Hillberg and Urban in No. 1 doubles action.

Dawson Peters rallied for a 1-6, 7-5, 10-2 win against Dawson Tschakert in a No. 4 singles showdown.

Seven of the nine matches ended in straight sets, the other exception being at No. 2 doubles where Watertown’s Drew Veflin and Tschakert held off Micah Ardry and Peters for a 6-2, 2-6, 10-6 triumph.

Brookings (0-5) plays host to Harrisburg, Milbank and Vermillion in a quadrangular today beginning at noon.

WATERTOWN 5, BROOKINGS 4

Singles

No. 1 – Jonah Dobbs, B, def. Dylan Hillberg, 6-2, 6-3

No. 2 – Dalton Rittershaus, B, def. Jordan Urban, 6-4, 6-3

No. 3 – Drew Veflin, W, def. Micah Ardry, 6-3, 6-2

No. 4 – Dawson Peters, B, def. Dawson Tschakert, 1-6, 7-5, 10-2

No. 5 – Adam Kays, W, def. Derek Brallier, 6-3, 6-1

No. 6 – Sam Mahowald, W, def. Gabel Goldhorn, 6-0, 6-1

Doubles

No. 1 – Dobbs/Rittershaus, B, def. Hillberg/Urban, 7-5, 6-4

No. 2 – Veflin/Tschakert, W, def. Ardry/Peters, 6-0, 2-6, 10-6

No. 3 – Kays/Shawn Horning, W, def. Brallier/Goldhorn, 6-1, 6-2

Nathan Giese/Watertown Public Opinion

Brookings’ Dawson Peters hits a return shot during his 1-6, 7-5, 10-2 win over the Arrows’ Dawson Tschakert in a No. 4 singles match on Thursday in Watertown.