SPRINGFIELD | Barstow’s top doubles team of Alena Frye and Kate Sims trailed three games to none in the second set of their Missouri Class 1 state championship match on Saturday, but they weren’t…

SPRINGFIELD | If the Kansas City area doesn’t produce a singles or doubles champion at the Missouri state tennis championships, it won’t be for a lack of options.Several area girls turned in fine…

SPRINGFIELD | For Barstow’s girls tennis team, a day that began with a disappointing loss ended with an uplifting victory.Hours after losing its Class 1 semifinal match against Visitation Academy 5-2…

1 You’d be hard-pressed to find a team happier to reach state than Barstow. With their sectional victory over Pembroke Hill on Saturday, the Knights advanced to the state semifinals for the first…

WICHITA | Shawnee Mission East’s girls tennis team had all the motivation in the world entering the final day of the Kansas Class 6A state tournament.Not only were the Lancers trying to win their…

1 Unstoppable Fotopoulos? Shawnee Mission East senior Mimi Fotopoulos has been limited a bit by injury this season, but she remains undefeated and remains on track for a second consecutive Kansas 6A…

As Shawnee Mission East cruised to another Sunflower League girls tennis championship on Tuesday afternoon, Mollie Cooper and Elizabeth Wilcox tried to focus on more than just the two small gold…

There is a new and unexpected contender for the throne occupied by Mimi Fotopoulos, a Shawnee Mission East senior and the reigning queen of Kansas 6A tennis.It’s not her nemesis Madison Rhyner, a…

SPRINGFIELD | For Liberty’s senior doubles tandem of Abby Fish and Kelsey Heuer, it wasn’t all that long ago that the concept of making it to the state semifinals was merely a dream.But now, 10 …

1 Can anybody break through in singles?Here’s an interesting factoid: a local girl hasn’t won a singles title in either class since Kailin Dunham of St. Teresa’s Academy took home the Class 2 title…

Barely a year ago, Ellen Fields was learning how to walk again.But last Saturday that was the farthest thing from the Blue Valley North junior’s mind as she and her teammates celebrated the Kansas 6A…

WICHITA | St. James junior Bree Honer came into the Kansas Class 4A singles tournament as the favorite and delivered, but it didn’t come easily.Honer beat Hesston’s Ali Anderson 4-6, 7-5, 5-1 on…

EMPORIA, Kan. | With the sun beating down and the wind blowing slightly, Blue Valley senior Ashley Tiefel narrowed her eyes, drew her racket back and unleashed a picture-perfect forehand that landed…