BHS tennis team sweep singles play versus Russellville
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LITTLE ROCK — The Bryant High School tennis team swept the top four singles matches and six of nine matches overall against the Russellville Cyclones at Rebsamen Park on Tuesday.
No. 1 boys singles player Kyle Nossaman conquered Russellville’s Hunter Gately, 8-5, while No. 1 girls singles player Callie Hogancamp topped Baily Morgan by the same score.[more]
At No. 2 singles, Bryant’s Cade Howard beat Russellville’s Scott Douthit, 8-4, and Lady Hornet Whitney Butler defeated Tory Rhodes, 8-2.
In doubles, Bryant’s Erica Pounders and Emma Patrick picked up a victory over Jolenda Davis and Alyssa Mason, 8-5.
Russellville only had two boys on the team but Gately and Douthit came back from their singles defeats to win in doubles, 8-6, over Bryant’s Cody Higgins and Murphy Maynard.
The Lady Cyclones won at No. 2 doubles as Morgan and Hannah Brown defeated Amy Bucks and Sarah Lequieu, 8-1.
In other singles matches, Kristen Dudley of Bryant beat Lauren Isom, 8-3, while Brown downed Bryant’s Lauren Boyer, 8-2.
The Bryant teams are scheduled to play today at Cabot.
