Terri
Rambie
Day two of the two day Class 4A Region IV tennis tournament is scheduled today at Corpus Christi’s HEB Tennis Center.
The tourney competition was set to get underway yesterday.
Complete results from the regional tourney will be reported in next Thursday’s edition of the Uvalde Leader-News.
Uvalde High School sent eight players to the regional tournament, including Elizabeth Phillips, Allison Goggans, Ty Gonzalez, and Jonathan Garcia in singles, and the teams of Jack Brock and Colton Gaston, and Reilly Mize and Reagan Dodson.
“I am excited about the regional tournament. Our kids will face some really good competition in the tournament,” said UHS head tennis coach Terri Rambie. “Our kids play better when they face better competition, because it makes them stay focused and their mental toughness has to be there in every single point of the match.”
The top finishers in the regional tournament will advance to the state tournament at San Antonio later this month.
In recent District 30-4A tennis action, UHS won both first place and second place in girls’ singles and boys’ singles.
UHS took top honors in boys’ doubles and second place in mixed doubles.
Elizabeth Phillips downed Allison Goggans, 6-3 and 6-0, for the girls’ singles title.
Phillips beat Hondo’s Payton Mayfield, 6-1 and 6-0, in the semi-final match, while Goggans won a 6-3 and 6-4 victory over Hondo’s Felicia Alvarado.
Ty Gonzalez bested Jonathon Garcia, 6-0 and 6-2, for the boys’ singles crown.
Gonzalez rolled over Pearsall’s Filip Lange, 6-0 and 6-0, in his semi-final match.
In the other semi-final matchup, Garcia recorded a split-set win, 6-4, 6-7, and 6-2, over Hondo’s Brad Bendele.
Jack Brock and Colton Gaston won the boys’ doubles championship.
They defeated Hondo’s Logan Kindred and Leo Lopez for the title.
In the semi final play, Brock and Gaston defeated Hondo’s Castillo and Heyen, 6-2 and 6-1, while Kindred and Lopez topped Uvaldeans Hector Lopez and Marquez Lopez, 6-2 and 6-3.
Lopez and Lopez whipped Castillo and Heyen of Hondo, 6-3 and 6-0, for third place.
Reilly Mize and Reagan Dodson won a play-back match for district runner-up honors in mixed doubles.
They beat their UHS teammates, Armando Garcia and Elizabeth Amaya, 6-1 and 6-1, in the playback.
Mize and Dodson lost to Kaleb Hernandez and Cassidy Reus of Hondo, 7-5 and 6-3, in the match for first place.