Back to Back! Lady Mavs Beat Wando for 2nd Straight Girls Tennis State Title

The Mauldin High School girls team won their second straight girls 4A state tennis championship on Saturday morning, beating Wando, 4-2. The win was the 19^th straight on the year and the 40^th over the past two years for the Lady Mavs, who also beat Wando last year. The match was played at Cayce Tennis Center outside Columbia.

The match turned at number three singles. Having split the first two matches, Mauldin’s Sydney Patton lost the first set and was staring at defeat but rallied to win the second set in a tiebreaker and then won the third set, 10-4.

Mauldin then took two of the remaining three matches with the clincher coming in doubles on the racquets of Alex Patton and Hayley Behal.

"It's awesome,” said assistant coach Bonnie Pittman. “We were down in a couple of matches and everybody came back. They just played really well." 

The Scorebook:

Singles No. 1 - Ansley Speaks (M) def. Catherine Martin (W) 6-1, 6-1.

Singles No. 2 - Melanie Allen  (W) def. Haley Elliott (M) 6-4, 6-1.

Singles No. 3 - Sydney Patton (M) def. Alex Klein (W) 2-6, 7-6, 10-4.

Singles No. 4 - Lexi Stewart (M) def. Carolina Hairfield (W) 6-4, 6-0.

Singles No. 5 - Anne Stuart-Pride (W) def. Katelyn Hegarty (M) 6-4, 1-6, 10-6.

Doubles - Alex Patton and Hayley Behal (M) def. Courtney Lopresti and Legare Passailaigue (W) 6-4, 6-2.