Five area athletes have advanced to the Conference 1A regional tennis meet set for next week.
The 1A regional tennis meet is set for April 20-21 at Tarleton State University in Stephenville.
The top two individuals and teams qualified in every bracket.
Saint Jo’s Sarah Patrick won the girls’ singles division with a 6-0, 6-2 victory over Adina Zidermanis from Slidell at the District 1A-21 meet last week in Denton.
In the girls’ doubles division, no local teams advanced. In the third-place match, Haley Nolan and Hope Phipps topped Kaylee Choate and Virginia Cody in this battle of doubles teams from Forestburg.
John Grunseich and Broc Terry from Bellevue advanced all the way to the boys’ doubles finals, before falling to Slidell’s Khristian Talamantes and Tyler Maynard. Slidell won 6-3, 6-4.
Prairie Valley’s Robin Fenoglio and Matt Suarez won mixed doubles in a three-set match by scores of 6-2, 1-6, 6-0, defeating Slidell’s Jessy Goode and Mason Maynard.
Bellevue was third among boys’ teams with 15 points, and Prairie Valley fourth with 10. Saint Jo scored 15 points in girls, with Forestburg and Prairie Valley tied for second with 10 each.
In the junior varsity division, Molly Metcalf from Forestburg was second. Matthew Wallace won boys’ singles. Shelby Horton and Danielle Parr teamed up to win JV girls’ doubles.

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