The Mathews High School girls’ tennis team played some good matches recently.

On Monday, April 27, they played away against West Point and won, 9-0, with Lyla Duff (8-2 over Sheloir Johnson), Ella Ward (8-1 over Xinyi Chen), Delaney Boatman (8-0 over Kendall Hylton), Charlotte Bailey (forfeit), Jayda Thomas (8-4 over Chloe Sharpe) and Jordan Sadeg (8-3 over Sophia Lacy) all posted singles victories.

In doubles play, Duff and Ward beat Johnson and Chen, 8-3; Boatman and Bailey defeated Hylton and a substitute player from West Point, 8-1, and Thomas and Sadeg completed the shutout, winning 8-0 against two West Point substitute players.

Lancaster

Mathews faced Lancaster on Monday of this week, and although the Lady Blue Devils played hard, they fell to the Red Devils, 5-4. Posting wins for MHS, in singles play, were #3 seed Boatman, who beat Vanika Murfield, 8-1, and #5 seed Thomas who won, 8-3, against Izzy Dew. The second-seed doubles team of Boatman and Bailey beat Murfield and Izzy Miette Wolfe, 8-0; and third-seed partners Thomas and Sadeg won, 8-5, against Dew and Angelina Smith.

The MHS girls were scheduled to play at home against Middlesex. On Monday, the MHS girls will host West Point at 4 p.m. which will be Senior Night for the Mathews girls; the team’s graduating seniors will be recognized.