Tennis

The 13th Region was well represented at the state level once again this year, with a total of twelve coverage area players advancing to compete in last week’s KHSAA championships in Lexington. Corbin had two teams in the boys doubles bracket – region champions Peyton Hamlin/Brady Keith, and the pairing of Seth and Zane Maguet. Hamlin and Keith were defeated in round one last Thursday morning by Michael Ioffe and Spencer Strelsov (5) of DuPont Manual 6-4, 6-2, while the Maguets were defeated in round one by Chandler Nguyen and Wes Patterson of Russell 6-0, 6-3. Head Coach Nickie Dixon said of her four boys, “The Maguets had a hard-fought match...

The state championship tennis brackets were released by the KHSAA Tuesday morning, and here is where our competitors from Corbin and Whitley County ended up... In boys singles, Whitley County’s Reece Halcomb will face Vincent Shiben of McCracken County Thursday morning at 8:00 a.m. at Shillito Park in Lexington. The winner of that match is scheduled to take the court again Thursday at 2:00 p.m. Whitley’s Chris Tan will face Cameron Mount of South Oldham Thursday at 9:15 a.m., also at Shillito Park. The winner of that match will play again at 2:00 p.m. as well. In boys doubles, Corbin’s Peyton Hamlin and Brady Keith will face Michael Ioffe and Spencer Strelsov...

The 2017 high school tennis season officially wraps up this weekend at the KHSAA state championships in Lexington, but before that happens we have five more coverage area tennis players to meet in this week’s Senior Spotlight. Bruce Hopkins has been playing tennis at Lynn Camp for the past four years. Perhaps most well-known for his ability on the basketball court, he said that competing in tennis is much different because he is all by himself in that environment. Similar to many athletes at LCHS, Hopkins has participated in several different sports during his time as a Wildcats. In addition to basketball and tennis, he has also competed as a cross...

On Tuesday, the 2017 13th Region tennis tournaments concluded with four championship matches at Whitley County High School. In boys doubles, the team of Brady Keith and Peyton Hamlin from Corbin defeated their opponents from Middlesboro in a very competitive matchup – 7-5, 5-7, 10-3. After the match, Keith said, “This feels great. I was confident coming in, but I also knew that it was going to be a tough match.” Hamlin added, “I’m pretty relieved, honestly. We just played our hearts out, though, and I’m glad that we were able to win. Now I hope that we can continue our success up in Lexington.” It was Corbin versus Corbin in the...

The Corbin tennis program is off to another fantastic start in 2017, with both the boys and the girls teams hopeful of adding more regional championship trophies to their already impressive collection. After a strong showing in Bowling Green over the weekend, the tennis Hounds are now looking to go into spring break next week with a couple more victories under their belts. Providing veteran leadership all along the way this spring are three seniors – Zane Maguet, Jessica Keith and Casie McBurney – who recently took the time to offer their comments for Senior Spotlight. Maguet, 19, is in his fifth year of competitive tennis. When asked about his experience...

This time last year Jaclyn Jewell was competing as a senior member of the Corbin High School tennis team. Along with her doubles partner, Ellie Jane Carloftis, she would go on to finish in the top eight at the 2016 KHSAA state championships – the farthest she had ever advanced in all her years competing at the state level, both as a middle school and a high school athlete. Now Jewell has taken her game to the next level as a freshman member of the University of the Cumberlands women’s tennis team. The Patriots currently stands at 5-5 this spring, with a big match against visiting Georgetown College scheduled for...

Last spring the Corbin High School tennis program continued its legacy of winning with both the boys and girls securing regional team titles, followed by them nearly sweeping the regional singles and doubles championships as well. In all, the Redhounds will be bringing back six of the eight competitors that they sent to the KHSAA state championships in 2016. Those players are freshman Samantha Spady, juniors Cora Bo Stevens, Emily Morton and Ellie Jane Carloftis, sophomore Brady Keith, junior Seth Maguet and senior Zane Maguet. Head Coach Nickie Dixon will of course have high expectations for all of these players in the 2017 season, but there are many others that she...

Among those athletes gearing up for the beginning of a new spring sports season are local high school tennis players, many of whom have been taking advantage of the warm weather that we have been experiencing recently. Whitley County Tennis Head Coach David Halcomb said, “In years past we’ve not gotten outdoors much at all before the start of a season, but in the last couple of weeks we’ve had four-or-five really good days where we have been able to get out and do some stuff. That has been a big plus for us.” Halcomb is excited about the upcoming season, with several young competitors on his roster ready to make...

This past weekend, the Mountain Tennis Circuit’s second annual Whitley County Open took place at the WCHS tennis courts in Williamsburg. Over 40 players showed up to participate in the event, which was split into nine separate competitions. Winners for each competition are as follows… Nikhil Krishna (Corbin) in men’s open singles, Hannah Thomas/Peyton Hamblin (Williamsburg/Corbin) in mixed B-C doubles, Alex Smith (Barbourville) in boys’ 12 singles, Drew Wilson (Barbourville) in boys’ 15 singles, Kenneth Gray (Barbourville) in men’s B singles, Tommy Fox/Danilo Garcia (Waco) in men’s open doubles, Sydney White (Corbin) in girls’ 18 singles, Baylie Brunsma/Jane Millett (Middlesboro) in women’s open doubles and Kenneth Gray/Drew Wilson (Barbourville) in...

The 2016 high school tennis season concluded last week with the KHSAA state championship tournaments for singles and doubles. Day one saw all boys matches taking place at the University of Kentucky’s Boone/Downing Tennis Complex, and all girls matches taking place down the road at the Shillito Park Tennis Complex. Beginning with the boys, Whitley County’s Chris Tan was able to defeat McCracken County’s Eddie Lam 6-4, 6-4 in an early morning singles match last Thursday. That win advanced the sophomore to round two, where he would face Adam Slone, a talented senior player from LCA. Prior to taking the court for the match against Slone, Tan said, “I was...