A6 BAKER CITY HERALD • SATuRDAY, MAY 14, 2022
SPORTS
BAKER TENNIS AT REGIONALS
Four Bulldogs qualify for state tournament
Baker City Herald
All four of Baker’s tennis players
who advanced to the regional tour-
nament won their opening match on
Friday, May 13, to qualify for the state
tournament.
Singles players Sarah Plummer and
Danny Cunningham, and the girls
doubles team of Maya Smith and Ol-
ivia Jacoby, won their first matches at
the two-day regional tournament at the
Ash Grove courts in Baker City.
Under the regional format, first-
round matches determined which play-
ers and doubles teams qualify for state.
Each player and doubles team was
guaranteed three matches regard-
less, but only those who won their
first match advanced to the Class
4A/3A/2A/1A state tournament set for
May 20-21 in Corvallis.
Plummer, a senior who was seeded
third after the subregional tournament
May 6-7 in Ontario, won her open-
ing match against Linien Holden of
Weston-McEwen.
Plummer won the opening set 6-3,
then rallied in the tiebreaker to win the
second set, 7-6 (8-6).
“I was really happy to finish it in the
tiebreaker,” she said.
Plummer advanced to the state tour-
nament for the second straight year.
She said she started the season with-
out any specific goals.
“I just wanted to have a fun senior
season,” Plummer said. “It was a good
season. I had a lot of good matches.”
Plummer acknowledged that the
regional format, with a state berth rid-
ing on her first match, added a bit of
extra pressure.
She said it’s quite different from
wrestling — the sport she will compete
in when she attends Washington State
University — when a competitor can
lose a match but then advance through
the bracket.
In girls doubles, Smith, who’s a se-
nior, and Jacoby, a freshman, were
seeded seventh and played sec-
ond-seeded Abby Colby and Krysten
Smith of Condon.
Smith and Jacoby won the first set
easily, 6-2, but the Condon duo re-
bounded to take the second set, 6-3. In
the decisive third set, Smith and Jacoby
dominated, 6-0.
Cunningham, seeded second, didn’t
lose a game in his first-round match
against Irrigon’s Anthony Standley.
Complete results from the regional
tournament will be published in the
Tuesday, May 17, issue of the Baker
City Herald.
Lisa Britton/Baker City Herald
Baker’s Danny
Cunningham hits an
overhead smash in
his match against
Anthony Standley
of Irrigon on Friday,
May 13, 2022, in the
regional tournament
in Baker City.
Cunningham won the
match to advance to
the state tournament.
Lisa Britton/Baker City Herald
Baker’s Sarah
Plummer hits a shot
against Linien Holden
of Weston-McEwen
in the regional tennis
tournament Friday,
May 13, 2022, in
Baker City. Plummer
won in straight sets to
advance to the state
tournament for the
second straight year.
Lisa Britton/Baker City Herald
Maya Smith, left, and her doubles partner, Olivia Jacoby, won their opening match at the regional tournament on Friday, May 13, 2022, in Baker City to advance to
the state tournament.
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