Medical Lake tennis teams have holes to fill

Graduation and moves of some students has left the tennis cupboard pretty bare at Medical Lake High School.

“We graduated a total of 12 from last year’s squad, nine of those from varsity, ” co-head coach Dawn Eliassen wrote in an email. “We also had a number of players move out of the district.”

That leaves the Cardinal boys, who were 9-3 and runners-up in the Northeast A League in 2017 and co-champs in 2016, with just two returning varsity players and the girls with what Eliassen referred to as “One-ish returning varsity girl.”

Noah Ray will be the Cardinals’ top returner and competed at stat...