Lady Jays defeat Hickman in tennis

Sandhiya Baskar of the Lady Jays eyes the ball as she gets ready for a return during Wednesday's match against Hickman at Washington Park.
Sandhiya Baskar of the Lady Jays eyes the ball as she gets ready for a return during Wednesday's match against Hickman at Washington Park.

The Jefferson City Lady Jays won five singles matches and two doubles matches Wednesday to defeat the Hickman Kewpies 7-2 at Washington Park.

Doubles winners for Jefferson City were Akhi Donthireddy and Madelyn Becker (8-1) and Sudhi Kumar and Jaden Harper (8-3). Falling in doubles were Sandhiya Baskar and Bailey Higgins (8-9, 2-7 tiebreaker).

Singles winners were Donthireddy (6-2, 6-1), Higgins (6-0, 6-3), Kumar (6-2, 6-2), Becker (6-0, 6-1) and Harper (6-2, 6-1). Falling in singles play was Baskar (0-6, 1-6).

Jefferson City (11-1) returns to action today at Camdenton.

The Lady Jays lost the JV match against Hickman 2-3.

Correction: Jefferson City won Tuesday's JV match against Marshall 4-2. In the original version of an article posted Wednesday, the result of that match was reported incorrectly.