Vandalia girls tennis wrapped up their season on Saturday with competition in the Centralia Sectional. In the Singles bracket, both Emma Bauer and Bella Walk each came up one round short of qualifying for the State Tournament. Both girls received first round BYEs and then Walk beat Elyse Plant of Greenville 6-1, 6-4 and Bauer beat Anna Kingsley of Mt. Vernon 6-1, 6-1 in the Second Round. That put them into the Quarterfinals where Walk suffered a 6-0, 6-1 loss to eventual Sectional Champion Ella Robinson of Salem and Bauer fell to eventual third place winner Katee Sellers of Salem 6-4, 6-1 to be knocked out of the single elimination tournament.
In Doubles play, the teams of Kylie Hawthorne/Julianne Osborne and Ciara Feezel/Daria Murray each received first round BYEs. In Round Two, Hawthorne/Osborne fell to Nora Kampwerth/Julianne Lindsco of Highland 6-0, 6-0 and Feezel/Murray lost to Emma Baudino/Rachael Reckmann of Highland 6-0, 6-1 as each team was knocked out of the tournament.
The Lady Vandals finished the Sectional with 8 points to place 7th as a team. Overall on the season, Vandalia girls tennis went 6-10 as a team in regular season matches with a second place finish in the South Central Conference Tournament.
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