Marco Mandic of Baylor cheers after winning a set during a doubles tennis match Wednesday against McCallie at Baylor School. Mandic and Jack Gray won their match against McCallie’s Daniel Pare and Luke Orthner.Despite finding themselves down a point in their region match against Baylor on Wednesday, the McCallie tennis team never lost sight of the bigger goal.
And they didn’t waste much time reaching it.
The Blue Tornado jumped out to one-set leads in five of the six singles match, taking wins on the first three that came off the court as they defeated the Red Raiders 4-3 at the Zan Guerry Tennis Center.
McCallie (7-4, 2-1) got straight set wins from Cody Gubin, Aaron Speicher, Turner Voges and Carter Eaves. The latter didn’t play when the two teams played a non-region match recently, but Gubin took a 6-3, 6-2 win over Jack Gray in a reversal of the first meeting.
“My serve was on, and I dictated more of the points,” he said. “I thought I competed a lot harder and was more into the match this time.”