Lady Bucks Battle, Fall in PIAA Quarterfinals

by Jim Morgan
 

bucks-tennisHERSHEY —The Bucktail tennis duo of Maria Morgan and Abbey Ransom made a run at the PIAA AA tennis championships at Hershey Racquet Club on Friday. The Dynamic Duo came up just short in the quarterfinal round, the Lady Bucks’ second match of the day.

The District Four champs opened with Taylor Hepler and Anna Brinkley, the District Nine champs from Brockway and Morgan and Ransom blitzed to a 6-0, 6-0 win.

Round two saw them take on the WPIAL runners-up from Beaver. It was a back-and-forth quarterfinal, Beaver’s Anna Taylor and Mattie Taylor winning the first set 6-3; Morgan and Ransom battling back to win the second set 7-6; but the Beaver duo took the third and final set by a 6-3 score, moving on to Saturday’s semifinals.

For the seniors Morgan and Ransom their performance ended a great two year playoff run: District 4 runners-up in 2013 and a trip to states and in 2014 a district title and a round-of-eight appearance at the state tourney.

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