{"id":27021,"date":"2025-06-08T15:09:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T19:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=27021"},"modified":"2025-06-08T15:09:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T19:09:15","slug":"norwells-saalfrank-reaches-individual-regional-final-to-cap-fantastic-junior-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/08\/norwells-saalfrank-reaches-individual-regional-final-to-cap-fantastic-junior-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Norwell&#8217;s Saalfrank reaches individual regional final to cap fantastic junior season"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Macie Saalfrank of Norwell High School competed in Saturday&#8217;s individual tennis regional at North Central and advanced to the championship match before falling in the finals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Playing directly next to the doubles pair from Adams Central, Saalfrank got the better of Lafayette Jeff&#8217;s Sydney North, using her speed, height and a stronger forehand to win her semifinal match, 6-3, 6-0. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/DSC_1055.jpg?resize=640%2C424&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27023\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/DSC_1055.jpg?resize=1024%2C678&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/DSC_1055.jpg?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/DSC_1055.jpg?resize=768%2C509&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/DSC_1055.jpg?resize=1536%2C1017&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/DSC_1055.jpg?resize=2048%2C1356&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/DSC_1055.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/DSC_1055.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>That pitted Saalfrank against Emma Danihelova of Lakeland for a regional title. When play began Saturday afternoon, Saalfrank was one of just eleven singles players left in the state tournament. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Danihelova advanced to next week&#8217;s State Finals with a 6-1, 6-2 victory over Saalfrank. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Macie Saalfrank of Norwell High School competed in Saturday&#8217;s individual tennis regional at North Central and advanced to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27022,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[46,26,36],"class_list":["post-27021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-norwell","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/DSC_1046.jpg?fit=2464%2C1632&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27024,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27021\/revisions\/27024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}