The Center High School Varsity Tennis team has been extremely busy getting ready for District in a few weeks. Two weeks ago, they participated in Kilgore and finished 4th overall out of 16 teams. Coach Dykes explains, The teams were comprised of mostly 4A and 5A schools.” Participants in each bracket earned points for their team toward the overall standings. Results
for Center were as follows:

Girls Singles B-Megan Dunn-2nd Place

Girls Singles A-Whitlee Reed- 5th Place

Boys Doubles A- Adam Reeves/Alec Lucas-3rd Place

Boys Doubles A- Chris Dunn/Kamden Lucas- Won Consolation Bracket

Girls Doubles A-Malory Nehring/Julie Garcia-Won Consolation Bracket

Girls Doubles B-Faith Lengl/Rylee Hudspeth-4th Place

Boys Singles A-Zack Fausett-13th Place

Boys Singles B- Nate Morris-11th Place

Mixed Doubles A-Sheridan Cassell/Dustin Bennett-7th Place

Mixed Doubles B-Allison Langford/Tony Garcia-3rd Place

Last week, the team continued their march to District in the Nacogdoches tournament. In another tough set of matches, the Riders fared well as follows:

Boys doubles:

Adam Reeves / Alec Lucas - 1st place

Zack Fausett / Nate Morris - 4th place

Girls doubles:

Faith Lengl / Rylee Hudspeth - 2nd place

Malory Nehring / Julie Garcia - 1st in consolation (1st round loss bracket)

Mixed doubles:

Tony Garcia / Allison Langford - 2nd place

Sheridan Cassell / Dustin Bennett - 3rd place

Girls singles:

Whitlee Reed - quarterfinalist

Emma Locke - quarterfinalist

Boys singles:

Kamden Lucas - quarterfinalist

Joel Martinez - did not place

The Riders will play tough competition again going into Spring Break on Friday, March 6th in Corsicana.