It was a productive day for coach Mary Hudson and the Guthrie girls’ varsity tennis team, who won fifth place at the Duncan West Tournament last Wednesday at the OKC Tennis Center.
The Lady Jays’ top-five finish was headlined by their No. 1 Doubles duo of Aspen Mitchell and Rylee Tobin, who earned second place to help Guthrie post a team total score of 49. Mitchell and Tobin’s runner-up finish made for 15 of those 49 points, while the Lady Jays’ No. 2 Doubles team finished fifth and both Singles teams each placed sixth.
Mitchell and Tobin bested duos from Midwest City, Edmond Santa Fe and Duncan on their way to a championship match against Ada. Guthrie fell in the final (1, 6, 11-9), but not before completing their best tournament finish of the year so far, which previously was a third-place win at the Ada Tournament back on March 7.
Haven Hudson and Hollie Mitchell finished fifth in the No. 2 Doubles tournament, defeating Putnam City North in the opening round but falling to Duncan in the quarterfinals. The girls advanced to the fifth-place sub bracket where they beat Lawton (0, 2) and Carl Albert (3, 1, 10-4).
Lady Jays’ Singles competitors Lola Brown and Kenzie Hardesty both took the exact same path to a sixth-place finish in their respective brackets. Brown won her first-round match of the No. 1 Singles against Lawton’s Riley McKenzie but fell in the following round to Madilyn Whittaker of Altus, sending her to the fifth-place bracket where she picked up one win but lost in the fifth-place match.
Hardesty opened the No. 2 Singles bracket with a win over OCS’ Chloe Cockell, but like her teammate Brown, she lost to an Altus opponent in the quarterfinals and was sent to compete for fifth place. She defeated Edmond Santa Fe’s Alyssa Wilkinson but fell to Ada’s Baylee Boatwright for a sixth-place finish.
The Duncan West Girls Tournament championship went to Ada with 58 total points, just a single mark better than runner-up Altus at 57.
Guthrie is scheduled to play matches at Stillwater and Shawnee before hosting their own tournament at the OKC Tennis Center on April 10.