Mexico’s top two players were the team’s best again Friday at the Class 1 District 6 individual tournament at North Point in Wentzville.
No. 1 Brendan McKeown and No. 2 Declan …
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Mexico’s top two players were the team’s best again Friday at the Class 1 District 6 individual tournament at North Point in Wentzville.
No. 1 Brendan McKeown and No. 2 Declan Gleeson qualified for sectionals Saturday at Cosmo Park in Columbia after going head-to-head for first place. Zeven Ruiz and Camden Williams earned all-district honors after finishing fourth in doubles.
McKeown was dominant as he didn’t lose a game until the first-place match against his teammate Gleeson, who had won his matches 6-3, 6-2 against a Fulton opponent he struggled against before and 6-0, 6-1 against Lutheran St. Charles’ No. 1 player. Two games were dropped by McKeown against Gleeson, but he still won 8-2.
Ruiz and Williams won their first match against a Fulton pairing 6-2, 6-4 but lost their final two matches by scores of 6-1, 6-4 and 8-0.
Missouri Military Academy tennis locks up trips to at state
Gorka Yarte and Samuel Way were good enough to make it to the Class 1 state tennis meet last year and were good enough in Class 2 this year.
At Ft. Zumwalt East in St. Peters, Yarte won the Class 2 District 4 No. 1 individual title to advance to the individual state tournament May 18-20 at Cooper Tennis Complex in Springfield. Way is going in doubles along with partner Patricio Bravo Knobloch after finishing second in No. 1 doubles.
Yarte won his matches 6-2, 6-1; 6-0, 6-3; and the finals against a Hannibal opponent 6-1, 6-4.
Way and Bravo Knobloch won 6-1, 6-3 and 6-3, 6-3 but lost to a Holt pairing after a one hour and 45 minute match in the finals by a score of 6-7 (10-12) and 4-6.