OXFORD — Warren Central’s No. 2 boys doubles team came up one win short of being No. 1 in the state.

Gray Lampkin and Brady Taylor advanced all the way to the championship match of the MHSAA Class 6A boys’ doubles tournament before losing 6-2, 6-4 to Saltillo’s Brady Bruce and Weston Clayton on Wednesday.

Lampkin and Taylor — a junior and sophomore, respectively, were officially listed as Warren Central’s No. 2 doubles team, but coach Steve Summers said that was largely a formality. The Vikings’ roster was so deep that most of its players had matches at all of the positions in the lineup. Lampkin and Taylor were paired together for the postseason and went on a spectacular run.

“I told them they were an underdog story, but that’s really just on paper,” Summers said. “The fact of the matter is when you get to district and tournaments you have to rank your events. It’s part of what we do. But for me, how can I do that? My boys are all so close, they’re all so interchangeable, I regularly play them everywhere. They didn’t know until the day of the district tournament who was playing who.”

Lampkin and Taylor beat teammates Luke Bond and Samuel Harris, the Vikings’ No. 1 team, to win the Region 2-6A championship earlier this month. Then they breezed through two matches in straight sets on Tuesday to reach the finals.

Lampkin and Taylor beat West Harrison’s Ellis Walton and Aidan Dickinson 6-4, 6-4 in the first round, and Grenada’s John Leslie and Traveon Bullen 6-3, 6-1 in the semifinals.

“It was not for a second that anybody involved in this tournament that watched our boys play thought that we didn’t belong. A sophomore and a junior, and Gray has only been playing tennis for two years,” Summers said.

Lampkin and Taylor were part of a large contingent of Warren Central players who enjoyed success at the Class 6A individual tournament.

Charles Harris and Ellie Tennison beat Pascagoula’s Jacob Cowart and Olivia Boulware 6-2, 6-0 in the first round, but lost 6-2, 6-1 to West Jones’ Elizabeth McLaughlin and Ethan Albritton in the mixed doubles semifinals.

Two girls doubles teams reached the semifinals.

Sydney Sullivan and Lilli Feibelman beat George County’s Avery McArthur and Ally Klaire Byrd 3-6, 6-4, 1-0 (10-3) in a third-set tiebreaker in the first round, then lost 6-3, 6-4 to Grenada’s Mary Grace Klinck and Emily Finkley in their second match Tuesday.

On the other side of the bracket, Amelia King and Avery Hern won 6-2, 6-0 against Long Beach’s Lillian Oien and Emily Ao in the first round. In the semifinals, however, they lost 6-1, 6-4 to West Jones’ Emily Rogers and Sadie Sensenig.

Bond and Harris were knocked out in the first round of the boys doubles tournament, 6-3, 6-3 by Long Beach’s Henry Sawyer and Avry Smith.

In boys singles, Ivan Ozherelev lost 6-3, 6-3 to Trent Rishel of Long Beach in the first round.

Vicksburg High’s Kennedy Mullins also qualified for the Class 6A tournament. She took a tough three-set loss to George County’s Laci Lamb in the first round, 7-5, 6-4, 1-0 (10-8).

Summers said having four doubles teams win a match in the state tournament was the icing on a delicious cake of a season. Warren Central won the Region 2-6A championship and reached the second round of the team playoffs as well. That came only three years after a winless season.

“If your process is good, eventually you’re going to have a good product,” Summers said. “If you go 0-14 it becomes really hard to have a lot of confidence in your process. That year was rough, but we stuck to it, we believed in what we do, we got the kids to buy in, and we’re starting to see the fruits of it. We had a deep run in the playoffs and then to have representation in the individual championships in any event is just outstanding.”