Sep. 17—COLUMBUS — The Batesville Boys Tennis team traveled to Columbus North Saturday to participate in the Bull Dogs’ annual invitational. The three other teams are all in the top eight of District 8: Columbus North No. 1 (No. 6 in the state), Bordon No. 4 and Providence No. 7.
Batesville opened the invitational with a 5-0 loss to Bordon.
At No. 1 singles, Batesville’s Caleb Mohr was defeated by Judd Missi 6-0, 6-1. At No. 2 singles, Batesville’s Jevan Smith lost to Brady Peine 6-0, 6-0. Batesville’s Carson Meyer lost the No. 3 singles match to Parker Rarick 6-4, 6-2.
Batesville’s No. 1 doubles team of Lincoln Garrett and Deev Ranka were defeated by Kylan Nash and Zander Keith 6-4, 6-2. At No. 2 doubles, Batesville’s Wes Peters and Owen Westerfeld fell to Will Banet and Nash Missi 6-3, 7-6 (7-5).
In the second round, the Bulldogs lost a tight match to Providence 3-2.
Mohr lost at No. 1 singles to Zachary Popson 6-1, 6-0. Smith won a close match over Gage Christmas at No. 2 singles 7-6 (7-1), 7-5. Meyer knocked off Hunter Acra 6-3, 6-2.
In doubles, Garrett and Ranka fell to Foster Nash and Harrison Folz at No. 1 doubles in a super tiebreaker 4-6, 7-5, 10-4. At No. 2 doubles, Peters and Westerfeld also dropped the match in a super tiebreaker to Griffin Rodski and Cooper Nash 3-6, 6-1, 10-3.
The host Bull Dogs defeated Batesville 5-0 in the final match of the day.
At No. 1 singles, Mohr lost 6-0, 6-0 to Hank Lin. At No. 2 singles, Smith was defeated 6-1, 6-0 by Parth Shah. At No. 3 singles, Meyer lost to Teddy Littrell 6-0, 6-1.
At No. 1 doubles, Garrett and Ranka fell to Yoki Murabayaski and Vince Sasse 6-2, 6-0. At No. 2 doubles, Peters and Westerfeld lost 6-1, 6-1 to Adrian Perez and Jace Branham.
Batesville (7-8) hosts Rushville Saturday.
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