Playing their first competitive matches since March, the Brownwood Lions and Lady Lions kicked off their 2020 team tennis season with a 16-3 thrashing of Graham Saturday at the Brownwood High courts.
“For the first match since March I thought we played very well,” said Brownwood High tennis head coach Crystal Blazek. Tennis usually competes in a team season in the fall and an individual season in the spring, but the individual season was called off due to COVID. “We had a really good week of practice,” Blazek added, “and now we have a short turnaround to get ready for Lake View.”
The Lions and Lady Lions will venture to San Angelo Lake View at 4 p.m. Tuesday seeking a 2-0 start to the season.
In Saturday’s victory over Graham, the Lady Lions won all nine of their matches.
Notching doubles wins were the tandems of No. 1 Lillian Jonescue and Aaliyah Uvalle (8-0 over Hardyn Moore and Hannah Whitaker), No. 2 Victoria Ramos and Aishwarya Nigalye (8-2 over Reagan Birdwell and Treland Beaty) and No. 3 Labritaney Pollard and Tatum Dehart (8-0 over Deshny Partida and Duran).
Collecting singles wins for the Lady Lions were No. 1 Uvalle (8-3 over Laney Wilder), No. 2 Jonescue (8-3 over Birdwell), No. 3 Ramos (8-1 over Moore), No. 4 Pollard (8-3 over Whitaker), No. 5 Nigalye (8-2 over Beaty) and No. 6 Dehart (8-0 over Partida).
The Lions also swept all three of their doubles matches.
Landing in the win column were the No. 1 team of Mo Goff and Peter Le (8-2 over Wyatt Westerman and Spencer McHenry), the No. 2 duo of Julian Lares and Victor Hernandez (8-4 over Nick Moreno and Dave Price) and the No. 3 pairing of River Prado and Dillon Gatlin (8-0 over Nathan Rice and Dustin Robinson).
Brownwood also earned four singles wins in boys competition, with victories tallied by No. 1 Goff (8-5 over Westerman), No. 2 Le (8-0 over Price), No. 4 Lares (8-2 over John Upton), and No. 5 Nathan Ramos (8-2 over Moreno).
