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Top sports stories of the year: No. 4
Tennis: Kings of the court: Cowboys claim district title
By Justin Thomas, jthomas@starlocalnews.com
The past week has been a tumultuous one for Coppell High School as the community had to deal with the losses of two students, including football player and captain Jacob Logan, whose body was discovered Thursday in Possum Kingdom Lake after Logan disappeared last Sunday in a drowning incident.
So it was perhaps fitting that not only did Coppell go on to claim the district title, the final two matches on the court in Saturday's final against Marcus were boys singles player Jacob Villanueva and girls singles player Logan Astudillo.
"Saturday was awesome for us," said Jane Jackson, Coppell head coach. "We started out strong and really came out ready to play. Winning in girls No. 1 doubles was a real key for us and I was really proud that we got that win. Everything worked out well for us and I thought it was very ironic that it came down to our last two matches with Jacob and Logan.
"All of the distractions really made it tough to focus and get in a good week of practice. But in the end, I think it made us stronger and we didn't want to let anything slip away this week. I'm really proud of them."
On Oct. 2, Coppell held off Marcus, 10-9. But on Saturday, Coppell could breathe just a bit easier with a 10-7 victory.
In doubles, Coppell received wins from Julianne Cauley and Logan Astudillo on the girls side (6-4, 6-4), while the boys teams of Zixiao Li and Kihwan Lee (6-2, 6-2) and Tyler Stayed and Danny Busch (6-0, 6-1). Abby White and David Wittkower also won in mixed doubles.
"We really weren't expecting lose at boys No. 3 doubles," Jackson said. "But we got a couple of other nice wins and handled them in our mixed match and it worked out well."
In singles, winners were Astudillo (6-3, 7-5) and Cauley (6-0, 6-0) on the girls side, while boys winners were Stayer (6-3, 6-1), Li (6-2, 6-4), Josh Abaya (4-6, 6-1, 6-2) and Lee (6-2, 6-4).
"In girls, (Marcus') Preethi (Kasilingam) really brought her best tennis and won a great match," Jackson said. "And Molly Fisher played a great match at No. 2 singles as well. But our No. 3 and 4 girls played the same girls we played the first time and the difference was Logan stepped up and won. And Juliane played a girl that she beat in three sets in the regular season and won this time, 6-0, 6-0. I guess she wanted to make a senior statement."
Stayer also won his singles match against an opponent he had previously lost against (Sebastian Langdon).
"He was very focused and confident," Jackson said. "Xixiao played well, too, and has been very dependable for us and Jacob was winning his match when we all came off the court."
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