The boys tennis team played their first league contest of the season today, visiting an improved Brandon team on a beautiful summer afternoon.  Sean Culhane, Briar Wiskur, Chris Gaffney, and Schaefer Wiskur continued to play strong tennis at the singles flight.  Together as a unit, they have gone 15-1 on the season at the singles flights.  For the first time this season, we got a glimpse of the doubles lineup that should carry us through to the regional tournament.  There was some strong play from our opponent, but the doubles flights stepped up to the plate and took care of business.  The season is young, and we certainly have plenty of growth ahead of us in our quest to qualify for the state tournament.  Winning their first varsity contest of their career today was the 5 doubles team of Lucas Atkin and Blake Burger, defeating their opponent 8-0 in exhibition play. Today's Mustang of the Match goes to Sean Culhane for his in game ability to dissect what his opponent was doing to him, and then making the required adjustments without input from the coaches.  This allowed Sean to cruise to a 6-4. 6-1 victory over a solid, crafty player.  The Mustangs record is now 3-0-1 (1-0-0). They next play at Holly on Thursday, September 5th, starting at 4pm.  Go Mustangs!!!

On Friday, the boys team visited Lapeer to take part in the Lapeer Lightning Invitational.  Joining host Lapeer and Clio were Kearsley and Milan.  Over the years the Mustang program has had much success at this tournament, an the 2019 edition proved to be another successful outing for the first of the year.  Singles players Sean Culhane (1 singles, senior), Chris Gaffney (3 singles, sophomore), and Schaefer Wiskur (4 singles, sophomore) all went undefeated on the day, taking home the win at their respective flights.  Chris Gaffney earned the Mustang of the Match award for his come from behind victory against host Lapeer.  After getting down 2-7, Chris came back with six straight games to take a 8-7 lead.  It only took him three more games to close out the victory 10-8.  At doubles, Jaxson Tate and Travis Schmieder (1 doubles, both seniors) went undefeated to win their flight.  We had three players playing in their first ever varsity matches, freshmen Lucas Atkin and sophomores Blake Balanowski and Bradon Smith.  All three won matches and contributed points to the team.  Overall, the Mustangs earned 16 points on the day, two behind winner Lapeer.  The team next plays on Monday, August 26th when they host Imlay City.