SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Athletes from Joplin and Carl Junction concluded the 2021 season at the 47th MSHSAA Girls Tennis Championships on Thursday at the Cooper Tennis Complex.
EAGLES COMPETE IN CLASS 3
Competing in Class 3, Joplin’s doubles team of Astrid Cardenas and Emma Watts went 0-2.
The Joplin duo suffered a 6-0, 6-0 opening-round loss to St. Joseph Academy’s Elizabeth Choate and Isabella Hong. The St. Joseph Academy squad later advanced to the semifinals.
In the consolation bracket, the Joplin pair lost to St. Teresa’s Academy’s Emma Bridges and Anne Marie Hotze 6-2, 6-4.
Cardenas and Watts finished their stellar season with a record of 26-3. Cardenas is a senior, while Watts is a junior.
BULLDOGS PARTICIPATE IN CLASS 2
The Carl Junction Bulldogs had a doubles team and a singles player competing at the Class 2 state tourney.
Carl Junction’s doubles team of Jenna Besperat and Nicole Sherwood went 0-2.
St. Pius X’s Kintzli Wagner and Megan Giffin defeated the Bulldogs 6-1, 6-2 in the opening round.
Besperat and Sherwood suffered a 6-2, 6-2 loss to Villa Duchesne’s Caroline Potter and Elizabeth Brown in the consolation bracket.
Sherwood is a senior, while Besperat is a sophomore.
In singles, Carl Junction freshman Naiyah Wurdeman went 0-2.
In the first round, Jefferson City’s Sandhiya Baskar defeated Wurdeman 6-0, 6-0. In the consolation bracket, Ladue’s Saba Fajors defeated Wurdeman 6-1, 6-1.
CLASS 1 EVENT BEGINS FRIDAY
Thomas Jefferson’s Allison Ding will take on Duchesne’s Mary Kathleen Beckemeier on Friday in an opening round match of the Class 1 singles tournament.
Mount Vernon will have two doubles teams competing — Brooke Loftus-Jessah Anderson and Isabella Mosley-Allison Schubert.
