Lords brothers, Trotter finish tennis season at state
Fallon’s Nathan Lords returns the serve while his brother, Sammy, looks on during their championship match in last Tuesday’s regional tournament.
Photo by Thomas Ranson.
From practicing in the school cafeteria due to the air quality issues at the beginning of the regular season to battling the wind and rain in the final week, the Greenwave tennis team still qualified a handful of players to the state tournament. The doubles team of Nathan and Sammy Lords scored an upset in the semifinals of the Northern 3A regional tournament last Tuesday at the Reno Tennis Center before falling in the championship. After defeating the No. 6 seed — Truckee’s Thomas Geary and Forest Wunderlich — in three sets, which included two tiebreakers, to punch their ticket to state, the Lords brothers and No. 3 seed won 8-3 over South Tahoe’s Chris Haven and Landon Pashcal. South Tahoe’s Aidan Walker and Liam Molesworth, the No. 1 seed, won the championship, 8-3. Ashby Trotter, the No. 2 seed, needed to come back after a 6-3 first-game loss to No. 7 Kate Bouska of Wooster as she won the next two, 6-1 and 6-2, to qualify for state. Trotter, though, fell 8-3 to No. 3 Aenessa Rylski of Hug in the semifinals but rebounded with an 8-3 win over No. 5 Mia Jones of Truckee to finish third. Sammy and Nathan Lords, and Trotter lost in Friday’s opening round of the state tournament at Liberty High School in Las Vegas. Boulder City’s Tyler Lemmel and Bret Pendleton, the No. 3 seed from the South, swept the Lords brothers, 6-0 and 6-1. Trotter fell to South No. 2 Rachel Roxarzade of The Meadows, 6-1 and 6-2.
Thomas Ranson/LVN Fallon’s Ashby Trotter serves in the regional tournament’s third-place match in Reno.
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