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The official 4A District 2 tournament results. On April 29-30 Tiger Tennis teams traveled to Las Vegas to battle Robertson, Taos, & West Las Vegas to try and earn a berth in the State Playoffs in Albuquerque. Powerhouse Robertson Cardinals continue to dominate class 4A as prohibitive state championship favorites so the battle was for 2nd and which team would get a possible at large birth to the State tournament. The results were as follows.
Team Play:
Robertson Cardinals Champions 1st seed at State
Raton Tigers 2nd 6th seed at State will face St. Michaels
With team results decided the action moved to individual Singles and individual doubles tournament action and who would be crowned as individual district champions. Both had some very exciting matches as in individual singles play Raton Tigers Autumn Archuleta brought home the Championship medal for the Raton Tigers and earned a 6 seed at the State tournament.
After a relatively easy opening match in which Autumn beat WLV 6-0, 6-1 she moved on into the semi’s to face Taos’ C. Dimond. After dropping the 1st set to Dimond 6-7 Autumn rallied to come back and win the 2nd set 7-6, and 3rd set 6-4 to make it into the finals where she met up with Robertson’s Marrujo. Similar to the semi’s Autumn lost the 1st set 6-7 only to come back and take set 2 & 3, 6-4, 6-2 to become the 4A District 2 Singles Champion!
In doubles play the team of Alee Bird/Brittani Fleming faced some tough competition from the top doubles team in 4A from two sets of Fulghenzi sisters who are favored to place 1st and 2nd at this year’s State tournament. When the dust settled Bird/Fleming found themselves in the 3rd place where they matched up against R6-2, 7-5 obertson’s Sena/Trujillo. After a tough semi’s loss to one set of the Fulghenzi sister’s where they lost 0-6, 0-6 Bird/Fleming redeemed themselves to win 3rd place with a 6-2, 7-5 victory over Sena/Trujillo and earn an at large berth in the doubles tournaments.
On the boys side DJ Bird, Blaze Garcia, and Samuel Perez all participated in singles tournament action with the best place finish was 4th by DJ Bird. The boys did not have enough participants so they were unable to compete in team play.
