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Warren Central tennis player Avery Hern hits a shot during Thursday's match against the Jackson Victors. Hern and her girls' doubles partner Amelia King won their match 6-3, 1-6, 1-0, but the Victors won 4-3 in the team competition. (Paul Ingram/For The Vicksburg Post)

Warren Central tennis player Luke Bond hits a shot during Thursday's match against the Jackson Victors. (Paul Ingram/For The Vicksburg Post)

Warren Central tennis player Laura Bailey hits a shot during Thursday's match against the Jackson Victors. (Paul Ingram/For The Vicksburg Post)

Warren Central tennis player Brady Taylor hits a shot during Thursday's match against the Jackson Victors. (Paul Ingram/For The Vicksburg Post)

Warren Central tennis player Gray Lampkin hits a shot during Thursday's match against the Jackson Victors. (Paul Ingram/For The Vicksburg Post)

Warren Central tennis player Ellie Tennison hits a shot during Thursday's match against the Jackson Victors. (Paul Ingram/For The Vicksburg Post)

Warren Central tennis player Sam Harris hits a shot during Thursday's match against the Jackson Victors. (Paul Ingram/For The Vicksburg Post)

Warren Central tennis player Amelia King hits a shot during Thursday's match against the Jackson Victors. King and her girls' doubles partner Avery Hern won their match 6-3, 1-6, 1-0, but the Victors won 4-3 in the team competition. (Paul Ingram/For The Vicksburg Post)

Warren Central tennis player Charles Harris serves during Thursday's match against the Jackson Victors. (Paul Ingram/For The Vicksburg Post)

Warren Central tennis player Ivan Ozhorelev hits a shot during Thursday's match against the Jackson Victors. (Paul Ingram/For The Vicksburg Post)

Tiebreakers ruled the day at Halls Ferry Park, and unfortunately for Warren Central the Jackson Victors left the tennis court in charge.

Warren Central pulled out three three-set victories in doubles matches, but lost two others and the overall points race 4-3 to the Victors.

The Victors won both singles matches in straight sets, then won the No. 1 girls doubles and the mixed doubles points in third-set tiebreakers.

The Victors’ Molly Kackley and Beverly Horton beat WC’s Lilli Feibelman and Sydney Sullivan 6-3, 2-6, 1-0 in girls’ doubles. In mixed doubles, Jack Cooksey and Clara Barton Calicote defeated WC’s Charles Harris and Ellie Tennison 2-6, 6-1, 1-0.

Both of Warren Central’s boys’ doubles teams and the No. 2 girls’ doubles team won in three sets.

In No. 1 boys’ doubles, Luke Bond and Brady Taylor beat Cooper Smith and Samuel McDaniel 6-3, 5-7, 1-0. At the No. 2 position, Sam Harris and Gray Lampkin came from behind to beat Sam Miller and Joseph McDaniel 5-7, 6-2, 1-0.

At No. 2 girls’ doubles, the Vikings’ Amelia King and Avery Hern won 6-3, 1-6, 1-0 over the Victors’ Anna Gibson and Mariah Bayati.

Thursday’s match was the third of a run of four in five days for Warren Central. It lost 4-3 to Germantown on Monday, beat Ridgeland 5-1 on Wednesday, and will host Brandon Friday at 3 p.m. at Halls Ferry Park.

The Vikings did not lose a set in their dominant Region 2-6A victory over Ridgeland. Ivan Ozhorelev and Avery Hern won in boys and girls singles, respectively; the boys’ doubles teams of Bond and Sam Harris, and Taylor and Lampkin dropped a total of two games in their victories; and Tennison and Charles Harris won 6-0, 6-0 in mixed doubles, as did Feibelman and Sullivan in No. 1 girls’ doubles.

About Ernest Bowker

Ernest Bowker is The Vicksburg Post's sports editor. He has been a member of The Vicksburg Post's sports staff since 1998, making him one of the longest-tenured reporters in the paper's 140-year history. The New Jersey native is a graduate of LSU. In his career, he has won more than 50 awards from the Mississippi Press Association and Associated Press for his coverage of local sports in Vicksburg.

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