Tennis team grabs medals at state tournament

DeSoto Explorer ^ | Thursday, May 25, 2006 | Joel Reichenberger

[viccim]

The state tennis tournament began and ended in exactly the same way for Dan Hoschouer and Andy Edwards -- Andrew Kahley and Isaac Chambers from Smokey Valley celebrated at the De Soto pair's expense.

It was what happened in between that made the experience special, however.

Hoschouer and Edwards (29-8) finished sixth in last weekend's 2006 state tennis tournament in Pratt. Losing only their first match on the first day and their final match on the second day, the pair used three consecutive wins through the middle of the tournament to earn their first state medals and propel the De Soto boys team to a seventh-place finish overall.

[viccim]

My first post. Learning in the late evening so as to disturb only a few.

[Mr. Blonde]

I like hearing about athletes who come back all the way through the back side to place. And about people who are 1 and the century vs someone else and the one they win is at state or nationals or wherever.