Jamestown girls tennis opens season with two singles wins in loss to Legacy

Anna Hronova and Elise Roberts gave Jamestown a pair of bright spots in a 7-2 season-opening loss to Legacy on Tuesday at the Sanford Sports Complex’s BNC Bank Courts in Bismarck.

Hronova won her singles match in straight sets over Joya Martian, while Roberts battled back after dropping the first set to beat Ava Flemmer in three sets. Those two results kept the Blue Jays from leaving the opener empty-handed and showed the kind of early-season resilience that can matter as lineups settle in.

Roberts nearly added another win in doubles. Paired with Hronova, she pushed Martian and Flemmer to an 11-9 finish before falling, one of the tightest matches in a meet that otherwise tilted toward the Sabers. Jamestown’s other singles and doubles entries came up short, but the close doubles score offered a clearer sign of competitiveness than the final team result suggested.

The opener came early in North Dakota’s girls tennis calendar, with the NDHSAA listing March 30 as the opening date and April 10 as the first contest date for 2026. The postseason window is already mapped out, too, with the West Region tournament set for May 21-23 in Minot and the state tournament scheduled for May 28-30 in Grand Forks, which leaves little time for teams to sort out roles before matches start carrying more weight.

Jamestown has already seen this matchup from the other side. Legacy beat the Blue Jays 8-1 in last year’s WDA opener at Bollinger Courts in Jamestown, and the Blue Jays’ lone win that day also came in doubles, when Roberts and Mylee Michel defeated Caylin Kraft and Presley Schettler 6-3, 6-3. This time, Jamestown doubled its team win total against Legacy, with Roberts again at the center of the best results.

The Blue Jays were scheduled to return home to Bollinger Courts on April 21 against St. Mary’s, a quick chance to build on the individual performances that stood out even in defeat and to see whether Hronova, Roberts and the rest of the lineup can turn those early singles points into a stronger team result.