District tournament play is not meant to be easy. At last week’s event, Mexico managed a second and a third.
The duo of Shelby Kennemore and Lily Yager started on a hot streak. They dominated …
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District tournament play is not meant to be easy. At last week’s event, Mexico managed a second and a third.
The duo of Shelby Kennemore and Lily Yager started on a hot streak. They dominated Moberly’s Ashton Martin and Cheyenne Lea 6-0, 6-2 before toppling the strong Palmyra side of Jaynee Durst and Rylee Ingram 6-4, 6-2 in the semifinals.
Kennemore and Yager met with tougher opposition in the finals, in the form of Palmyra’s Katy Rindom and Maura Gottman. The Mexico pair managed two games in the first, but fell 6-2. In the second it was a 6-1 loss, but a second place finish.
The pair earned All-District honors.
Freshman Katie Gooch entered the tournament seeded fourth. She opened with a 6-4, 6-2 win over Bianca Perkins of Palmyra before falling to the number one seed, Father Tolton’s Meg Duncan. Gooch rebounded in the consolation, topping Haisley Windsor of Fulton 8-3 to claim third place in singles and All-District honors.
In other matches, Jocelyn Garcia and Estrella Lopez split, defeating a pair from Fulton but dropping the match against Palmyra. However, the pair jumped 13 positions over a year ago. Meanwhile in Singles, Anna Auwarter, who missed most of the season due to injury, fell to Fulton’s Windsor 2-6, 2-6.
In conference play at the end of September, Gooch and Yager both earned All Conference and third place for their work in the singles round. Garcia also went 2-1 for a third. But the Bulldogs doubles teams proved even stronger, with Messiah Simpson and Cadance Brinker capturing gold and All Conference, while Jaydet Garcia and Winona Whelan came in second in their category.
As a team, Mexico wound up in third behind Marshall and Hannibal.
The doubles pairings of Jocelyn Herrar and Estrella Lopez, along with Simpson and Brinker took firsts in the Mexico JV tournament on Oct. 2.
