San Saba Tennis Report

  • San Saba Tennis Team after winning 7th place at the State 2A & Under State Team Tennis Tournament - Front Row: (l-r) Tanner Provtt, Delaney Ellis, Natalie Cuevas, Damaris Patino, Libby Mays, Christian Reyes, Keely Pham, and Minerva Vasquez. Back row: (l-r) Christian Morales , Jose Aguilera, Trace Temples, Jovani Rangel, and Jose Rojas.
    San Saba Tennis Team after winning 7th place at the State 2A & Under State Team Tennis Tournament - Front Row: (l-r) Tanner Provtt, Delaney Ellis, Natalie Cuevas, Damaris Patino, Libby Mays, Christian Reyes, Keely Pham, and Minerva Vasquez. Back row: (l-r) Christian Morales , Jose Aguilera, Trace Temples, Jovani Rangel, and Jose Rojas.
  • San Saba Tennis Team at the Texas Sports Hall of Fame in Waco - Front Row: (l-r) Damaris Patino, Minerva Vasquez, Justin Hernandez, Natalie Cuevas, Libby Mays, and Keely Pham. Back row: (l-r) Jose Rojas, Everett Edison, Jovani Rangel, Trace Temples, Jose Aguilera, Del - aney Ellis, and Christian Morales. Photo by Ralph Cox
    San Saba Tennis Team at the Texas Sports Hall of Fame in Waco - Front Row: (l-r) Damaris Patino, Minerva Vasquez, Justin Hernandez, Natalie Cuevas, Libby Mays, and Keely Pham. Back row: (l-r) Jose Rojas, Everett Edison, Jovani Rangel, Trace Temples, Jose Aguilera, Del - aney Ellis, and Christian Morales. Photo by Ralph Cox

The San Saba Tennis Team played in the 2A & Under State Team Tennis Tournament on March 10 & 11 in the Waco, Temple, Belton area. On the evening of March 9, the Texas Tennis Coaches Association hosted a meal for all 13 teams in the 2A & Under tournament and the16 teams in the 3A & Under and tournament at the Texas Sports Hall of Fame in Waco. Before the meal, the players were able to tour the Texas Sports Hall of Fame. San Saba started the tournament ou on Friday morning in the round of 16 by defeating Fort Hancock 9 to 1. In the quarter- finals, the Dillos were defeated by Thrall 2 to 7. Saturday, the Dillos were defeated by a tough Quanah team 1 to 7. Saturday afternoon, San Saba bounced back and defeated Sanderson 10 to 1 to finish in 7th place in the tournament. Sterling City won the State championship match against Sonora. Playing for San Saba were Damaris Patino, Minerva Vasquez, Libby Mays, Delaney Ellis, Natalie Cuevas, Keely Pham, Tanner Provtt, Jazmine Davila, Jose Aguilera, Trace Temples, Christian Morales, Everett Edison, Justin Hernandez, Jovani Rangel, Jose Rojas and Christian Reyes.

Coach Bourke and I are so proud of the way our kids played and fought. They were on the tennis courts for about three hours in the mornings and three hours in the afternoon on both Friday and Saturday; that’s 12 hours of playing tennis in two days.

We are especially proud how our players acted on and ou the courts. We received several good comments from the parents of other teams how they enjoyed talking to our players and how they behaved.

The tennis team will take a break during spring break and then come back to concentrate on individual tennis. The team will play in the Fredericksburg Invitational Tournament on March 23 - 25 before playing in the District 29 2A Tournament in Mason on March 27 - 28.

The Middle School team will play their first tournament on Saturday, April 1.

Photo by Ralph Cox