By MITCH LUCAS
sports@kilgorenewsherald.com

It¹s almost a clean sweep now for the Kilgore High School tennis team.
The Bulldogs defeated Henderson in Henderson on Tuesday afternoon to run
their District 14-4A record this fall season to a perfect 4-0. Kilgore is
off this weekend, and hosts Nacogdoches in the final district matchup of the
fall on Tuesday. If KHS wins, it¹s another district championship.
³All the players played pretty well,² coach Jason Maroney said, ³and we did
a good job of putting matches away. Chelsey Cox played the most competitive
match, and did a good job regaining her focus in the third set and closing
the match out convincingly.²
Kilgore beat Henderson 10-0 officially, and 20-1 overall.
All the Kilgore boys won their singles matches against the Lions. No. 1 Josh
Way beat Viresh Patel, 6-1, 6-0; Jody Madding beat Austin Yarborough, 8-0;
Josh Bailey defeated Mitchell Hillin, 6-0, 6-1; Kade Bittick beat Brandon
Hughes, 6-1, 6-1; Eric Applegate beat Daniel Stone, 8-1; Jeremy Berryhill
defeated Jonathan Wade, 8-0; and Trent Raby beat R. Farmer and Jose Tapia
defeated M. Allen, also both 8-0.
The boys as doubles partners also won out. Way and Applegate beat Yarborough
and Patel, 6-0, 6-0; Bailey and Berryhill beat Hughes and Hillin, 6-0, 6-0;
and Madding and Tapia beat Farmer and Allen, 6-0, 6-1.
In girls singles, it was practically all Kilgore. Cox beat Jelissa Pollard,
6-2, 3-6, 6-0; Naomi Worden beat Henderson¹s Shawna Millhoff, 8-2; Kilgore¹s
Caitlind Trowbridge beat Taylor Lingle, 6-1, 6-4; Shawna Bass defeated
Henderson¹s Caitlyn Dunphy, 4-0, when Dunphy had to default due to an
injury; Meredith Gregg beat Henderson¹s Kristine Uy-Oco, 8-0; and Kilgore¹s
Zonera Javed lost to Stephanie Stone, 3-8.
Henderson forfeited the mixed doubles match, and got swept in girls doubles.
Cox and Worden beat Pollard and Millhoff, 6-0, 6-2; Bass and Trowbridge beat
Stone and Dunphy, 6-0, 6-2; and Patel and partner Monte Broussard beat
Uy-Oco and Lingle, 6-1, 6-2.
Kilgore¹s junior varsity was to play at Wills Point today.