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5 days ago | 
galvnews.com | Manuel Moreno Jr.
Clear Creek and Friendswood both walked away with runner-up finishes in mixed doubles at their respective regional tournaments, advancing to Thursday and Friday’s University Interscholastic League State Tennis Championships in San Antonio. The Mustangs also claimed three more spots in the state meet with third-place performances in girls singles, girls doubles and boys doubles.
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1 week ago | 
galvnews.com | Manuel Moreno Jr.
DEER PARKRound two of the tennis postseason gets underway Wednesday, with the Region III-6A Championships taking place at Deer Park High School South and the Region III-5A meet happening at A&M Consolidated High School in College Station.
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1 week ago | 
galvnews.com | Manuel Moreno Jr.
LEAGUE CITYFriday is the last day to sign up for the Joe Barlow and Jay Gurry Memorial Tennis Tournament, set for the weekend of May 16-18 at The Fitness Center at South Shore Harbour. The all-doubles charity event benefits the Clear Creek Education Foundation, which is dedicated to enriching and enhancing student academic achievement in all academic areas, including mathematics, science, social studies, language arts, technology and fine arts.
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2 weeks ago | 
galvnews.com | Manuel Moreno Jr.
DEER PARKAll four of the county's Class 6A schools qualified for next week's Region III-6A Tennis Championships, with Clear Creek, Clear Falls and Clear Springs each winning District 24-6A individual titles on Tuesday. Adding to that list of qualifiers was Dickinson's Pablo De Arroita, a surprise regional-qualifying second-place finisher in the boys' singles.
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2 weeks ago | 
galvnews.com | Manuel Moreno Jr.
GALVESTONAs expected, the Friendswood Mustangs dominated the District 20-5A Tennis Championships, winning four of the five individual titles up for grabs and nabbing five regional berths overall. At the same time, Ball High grabbed three regional-qualifying seconds to send five Tors, as well, to the Region III-5A Championships at College Station’s A&M Consolidated High School on May 8-9.
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2 weeks ago | 
galvnews.com | Manuel Moreno Jr.
District 24-6A tennis champions and runners-up will be crowned Tuesday, but not before first-round action begins Monday at Deer Park High School South at 8:30 a.m.Several locals drew high seeds for the two-day Region III-6A-qualifying tournament, including No. 1 in four of the five individual events up for grabs.
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3 weeks ago | 
galvnews.com | Manuel Moreno Jr.
GALVESTONBall High will play host to the District 20-5A Tennis Championships on Thursday and Friday, with Friendswood once again expected to land most of the first- and second-place regional-qualifying finishes. Last year, the Mustangs won all but the girls singles title, relinquishing that honor to the Tors’ Claire Jobe. But Friendswood head coach David Cook feels this year’s tournament could be a Mustangs domination in the making.
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3 weeks ago | 
galvnews.com | Manuel Moreno Jr.
Local high school tennis players finished their pre-district tournaments on a high note Thursday. Ball High placed third in the annual Peter Andrew Sunseri Memorial Team Tennis meet in Galveston, while both Clear Falls and Clear Creek shined in Kingwood and League City. The Tors shut out Alief Hastings in their third-place matchup, 9-0, bouncing back from a heartbreaking 5-4 loss to eventual champion Alief Elsik earlier in the day.
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1 month ago | 
galvnews.com | Manuel Moreno Jr.
With district tournaments just around the corner, local high school tennis players were getting in some of their last few practice swings this past weekend in Katy and Baytown. At the Katy Tournament, Friendswood walked away with three first-place finishes, including top honors in the girls “A4” singles flight won by Alyssa Borda. The Mustangs also grabbed firsts in the girls “A3” doubles (Bella Benson/Neela Juarez) and boys “A4” doubles (Emerson Houghton/Lane Soileau).
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1 month ago | 
galvnews.com | Manuel Moreno Jr.
Clear Creek’s Katelyn Gross/Dylan Ferraro, Clear Springs’ Priyanka Kamath and Dickinson’s Pablo DeAoritta each turned in impressive third-place finishes at two of the state’s biggest high school tennis tournaments held throughout the county on Saturday. Gross/Ferraro teamed up in the “A” top-8 flight mixed doubles to claim bronze at the 18th annual Kemah Boardwalk Invitational, while Kamath was doing likewise in the “A” top-8 flight girls singles.
