Girls tennis
Tuesday, 29 June 2010 00:00
Lubbock Coronado baseball coach Jimmy Webster is headed to the collegiate ranks. Webster, who has been a high school baseball head coach for nearly 20 years, said Thursday he’s leaving Coronado to become the director of baseball operations at Texas Tech.
Girls tennis
Monday, 17 May 2010 19:35
Klein Oak High’s Allison and Melissa Burckhartt proved that determination and perseverance can be major factors in winning a state championship. The Burckhartt sisters returned to the UIL Class 5A Tennis Championships in Austin for the second straight season, this time they came back with a gold medal.
“We’d grown as a team, and we were a lot less freaked out by the pressure of state, since it was the second time around,” said Allison, who will play tennis for Oklahoma State next season.
The Burckhartts knew that winning a state title would most likely involve upsetting undefeated defending state champions, seniors Micah Hermsdorf and Ariel Morton of Klein High.
Boys tennis
Thursday, 13 May 2010 06:19
The Bishop boys doubles team of Caleb Holmes and Josh Smith won the 2A crown, defeating Malakoff’s James King and Dylan Neal 6-4, 2-6, 6-4 at Penick-Allison in Austin. The last time Bishop claimed a tennis title was 1972, when future Texas A&M-Corpus Christi coach Steve Denton won the boys’ 3A crown. It was the Coastal Bend’s first boys doubles title since the King duo of Doug Peterson and Jeff Lim won in 1988.
“They both wanted to be state champs,” Bishop coach Claudia Esquivel said. “Honestly, I‘m not trying to sound cocky, but I knew they could get this far. It was a matter of doing it.”
Girls tennis
Thursday, 13 May 2010 06:14
Nothing in tennis had been easy lately for Gregory-Portland senior Lauren Quisenberry. Not the seven surgeries. Not the missed time. Not the state quarterfinal or semifinal.
And certainly not the gold medal she could drape around her neck Tuesday.
When Dallas Carter’s Idia Amen ended a brief rally by hitting into the net, Gregory-Portland’s Quisenberry sank to the ground, wrapped her arms around her head and then pointed skyward. After a 2-hour, 30-minute finals match, Quisenberry delivered the area’s first tennis title in nine years, defeating Amen for the Class 4A championship, 2-6, 6-4, 6-4 at the World of Tennis.
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