Mason County's state qualifiers all lost in the opening round of the KHSAA Tennis State Championships presented by UK HealthCare on Tuesday in Lexington.
In boys' singles, Evan Smith lost 1-6, 5-7. In boys' doubles, Sam Clarke and Alex Wood lost 3-6, 3-6, and in girls' doubles, Bailey Boone and Eden Abshire lost 1-6, 6-4, 0-1 (6-10).
The brackets for the KHSAA Tennis Championships presented by UK HealthCare have been published.
Here are the matchups for the Mason County players:
Boys Singles
Evan Smith vs. Cooper Ostermeier of Southwestern, Tuesday at 8 a.m. at the Sayre Athletic Complex.
Boys Doubles
Sam Clarke and Alex Wood vs. Vincente Garcia and Alexios Cornwell of North Hardin, Tuesday at 10:15 a.m. at Lexington Christian Academy.
Girls Doubles
Bailey Boone and Eden Abshire vs. Gabrielle Browning and Hope Dupin of Simon Kenton, Tuesday at 11:30 a.m. at the University of Kentucky.
Tickets for the tournament are available online only at https://gofan.co/app/school/KHSAA . Tickets purchased before the day of the event are $15. Game day tickets will cost $18 per day. Tickets purchased for the first day of the tournament will be valid at all sites.
Mason County tennis players who advanced to the semifinals of the regional tournaments were defeated by George Rogers Clark players on Thursday.
Evan Smith lost his singles match 6-2, 5-7, 14-16.
In doubles, Alex Wood and Sam Clarke lost 4-6, 2-6, and Bailey Boone and Eden Abshire lost 2-6, 1-6.
All of the semifinalists have qualified for the state tournament.
Five Mason County tennis players punched their tickets to the state tournament by advancing to the semifinals of the regional tournaments with wins while three players were eliminated on Wednesday.
No. 2 seed Evan Smith won his quarterfinal singles match 6-0, 6-1.
The girls' doubles teams of Bailey Boone and Eden Abshire and the boys' doubles team of Sam Clarke and Alex Wood also advanced to the semifinals.
Boone and Abshire won 6-1, 7-5 while Clark and Wood pulled out a 6-1, 4-6, 10-5 victory.
Three singles players suffered losses. Tori Lavinder lost 6-4, 4-6, 7-10, Juan Carlos fell 3-6, 1-6 and Ellen Clarke lost 6-7, 2-6.
The Mason County Royals lost to the George Rogers Clark Cardinals 3-0 in the 10th Region tennis team tournament on Saturday at Bourbon County.
The individual and doubles region tournaments start on Monday.
According to Coach Clay Boone for the first time in program history, Mason County has seeded players in all girls' and boys' events.
Here are the seeds:
No. 2 boys' singles, Evan Smith
No. 3 girls' singles, Tori Lavinder
No. 3 girls' doubles, Bailey Boone and Eden Abshire
No. 4 boys' doubles, Sam Clark and Alex Wood
The Mason County girls' and boys' tennis teams both came away with wins over Bourbon County on Monday in Paris.
The Lady Royals won 3-2. Olivia Jackson closed out the match with a third set tiebreak.
The Royals beat the Colonels 4-1. Sam Clarke and Alex Wood clinched the match with a third set tiebreak.
Mason County will travel to Claryville on Tuesday to play Campbell County.
Six players scored at least one goal as the Mason County Royals shutout the St. Patrick Saints 8-0 Tuesday evening in the semifinals of the 38th District soccer tournament at Harrison County.
Alex Wood and Landen Lake each scored two goals. Wood also had an assist. Braxton Malone had a goal and an assist. Brandon Stamm, Kaedyn Gill and Noah Gardner each scored a goal. Carter Malone had an assist.
Goalkeeper Cade Pugh had five saves.
The championship game is Thursday at 7 p.m.
