PITTSBURG — The Iola High tennis team took second place at Pittsburg Thursday.
The highlights of the afternoon included Ethan Riebel earning a second place medal in No. 1 singles play, Trapper Boren took third place in No. 2 singles and Brody Thompson and Payton Kern took second place in doubles. Luke Wicoff and Zach Pfaff also took third in doubles.
Riebel fell to Chanute’s Noah Vogel in singles play, 8-2, before toppling Pittsburg’s John Lee, 8-5, and Columbus’ Dylan Garrett, 8-2.
Boren lost to Chanute’s Ayden Cummings in the first round, 8-0. He then lost to Pittsburg’s Dakota Hunt, 8-1, before defeating a Columbus player, 8-0.
Thompson and Kern matched up with Chanute’s Parker Henson and Ethan Burnett and lost, 8-0. The duo then took down Pittsburg’s Kory Johnson and Andre August, 8-4, before winning over Columbus’ Cody Edinger and Jaiden Gonnaway, 8-0.
Wicoff and Pfaff lost to Chanute’s Ector Garnica and Jaxson Vaughan, 8-0, before the pair lost to Pittsburg’s Josh Ozbun and Tristan Blanken, 8-2. In the final match the pair defeated Columbus, 8-0.
Iola traveled to Independence on Friday morning. Results were not yet available.
