Category: Boys Tennis

On Tuesday, the Boyle County boys tennis team headed down to Southwestern High School to take on the McCreary Central Raiders. This is a 12th region matchup, and is a good time to get ready for the end of the regular season. Coach Tao Costello decided to make some changes for this match, with a different lineup than usual.

The Rebels almost completed a clean sweep. In singles, Sean Guiney won 6-0, Briar Bentley won 6-0, and eighth grader Cooper Jackson also won 6-0. The Rebels didn’t drop a single game in singles.

Doubles action showed more of the same. At number one doubles, Ethan Drake and Desmond Rapp won 6-0, while Alosha McSweyn and Lance Slone dropped the only game of the night, still bringing in the win 6-1.

The Rebels come off of this win with some confidence, heading into their match on Wednesday against the Mercer County Titans.

On Thursday, the boys tennis team headed to Hopkins Elementary School to take on the Somerset Briar Jumpers. Both teams are towards the top of the region, and winning this match-up would be a great close to a hard week for the Rebels.

Starting in doubles, the Rebels needed to set the tone early. At number one doubles, Caleb Sutton and Ethan Drake won a tight doubles match 8-4. At number 2 doubles, Desmond Rapp and Lance Slone lost a close one, by a score of 7-9.

The Rebels were on fire in singles! At number one singles, Mason Young took down the defending region champion 3-2, with the Somerset player retiring from the match. Sean Guiney cruised to a fantastic 8-0 win at number two singles, while Briar Bentley put on a clinic at number three singles, winning 8-1.

The Rebels won 4-1 overall, and will try to beat Somerset Christian on Monday.

 

The boys tennis team took a tough loss to the Pulaski County Maroons on Tuesday. They played the Maroons at home and lost with a final score of 4-1.

The boys started the match with singles. Mason Young started the night off by taking the first set 6-1, then dropping the second set 2-6. After a long two hours, Young came out on top winning a super tiebreak 10-8. Young ended by saying, “It was a hard-fought match against one of the best teams, I hope that we can build off this and be prepared for regions.” Then Sean Guiney had a tough match against Ben Hampton fighting hard, but falling short to lose 3-6, 2-6.

The night ended off with doubles. Caleb Sutton and Jacob King dropped their first set 3-6. Slowly starting to fight back, they made their way up to 3-2 in the second set, but couldn’t hold on and fell short 3-6.  Ethan Drake and Desmond Rapp followed up by playing a hard match but just falling short, losing 1-6, 3-6. Finally, Andrew Carr and Lance Slone fell short losing 1-8.

The Boyle County Boys Tennis team took on region powerhouse Casey County on Monday night. This was Boyle’s first match in a week due to weather and they needed to get back into the swing of things. This was by far the hottest match of the year, around 85 degrees. This made quite the difference in the matches.

Starting off in doubles, Boyle quickly took the advantage in number two doubles. Ethan Drake and Desmond Rapp won 6-1 6-3 in a great showing for the pair. This was followed by Lance Slone and Andrew Carr’s win, 8-1 at number three doubles. To end the night, Caleb Sutton and Jacob King played a marathon match and lost 3-6 6-2 1-10.

The Rebels split the singles matches. Mason Young lost 2-6 1-6 at number 1 singles, and Sean Guiney won 6-0 6-0 at the number 2 spot.

The Rebels have a quick turnaround, playing Pulaski County at home at 5:15 PM.

The boys tennis team took on their first loss of the season to the Woodford County Yellow Jackets a week ago on Tuesday, March 19. They played the Yellow Jackets away in Versailles and the Rebs lost, with a final score of 1-4.  This moves their season record to 3-1.

The match started off with all doubles. Caleb Sutton and Jacob King started a little slow, down 1-4. They slowly made a run to bring themselves back up to 4-5. However, after the long match, Woodford came out ahead winning 8-4. The night then continued with Spencer Costello and Desmond Rapp falling just short, losing 8-0. Then three seed doubles Lance Slone and Andrew Carr had a rough match. They fought hard, but ended up losing 0-8. Finally, at the end of the doubles, Cooper Jackson and Alosha McSweyn almost made a comeback, but fell short, losing 4-8.

Senior Mason Young was the lone winner that night, winning 8-1 over Morgan Hash. The game was difficult and Young fought hard to come out on top. Young said, “It was a tough match with rough conditions, but we all fought hard and played well considering the conditions.”