Taking on six Class 5A teams, the Class 2A Port Aransas High School tennis team brought home second place in mixed doubles and third in boys doubles, according to coach Vic Dimond.
The Marlins were playing in a tournament at Flour Bluff on Tuesday, Feb. 23.
The mixed doubles pair of Mark Vachon and Olivia Simpson opened with a win over Flour Bluff, 8-4. Next up was Corpus Christi’s Tuloso Midway that the Port A pair stopped, 9-7. Vachon and Simpson went on to defeat Corpus Christi Veterans Memorial, 9-7. In the finals, the local team was put down by Tuloso Midway, 1-8.
In boys doubles, Zach Childs and Tony Johnson beat Tuloso Midway, 9-7, lost to Veterans Memorial, 6-8, then beat Tuloso-Midway, 8-3, to finish in third place.
Other results were as follows:
Boys singles
Colton Huckabay lost to Tuloso Midway, 3-8.
Daniel Galvan lost to Flour Bluff, 1-8.
Boys doubles
Drew Tipps and Mark Herndon lost to Tuloso Midway, 4-8.
Girls Singles
Delaney Moss lost to Flour Bluff, 2-8.
Emma Middleton lost to Flour Bluff, 1-8.
Olivia Jimenez lost to Tuloso Midway, 0-8.
Girls Doubles
Jessica Harder and Sophia Pressley lost to Tuloso Midway, 3-8.
Faith Hicks and Georgia Jimenez lost to Flour Bluff, 6-8.
The Marlins will host Aransas Pass and London on Thursday, March 4. Play starts at 3:30 p.m.
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