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Verhasselt competes at state tennis

Published 11:45 am Thursday, May 31, 2012

YAKIMA – Tonasket’s Anthony Verhasselt competed Friday, May 25, at the state 1B/2B/1A tennis championships in Yakima, but bowed out after losing his two matches.

Verhasselt, a senior, fell to Keith Bighorn of Goldendale in a first-round match 6-2, 6-1. In a loser-out match, Alin Wallis of Wilbur-Creston defeated Verhasselt 6-3, 6-2.

Verhasselt took eighth in state as a junior, falling to Bighorn in the fifth/eighth place match.

About Brent Baker

Brent, is a former reporter/photographer for the Gazette-Tribune and sometimes works as a freelance sports reporter for the G-T. Prior to working at the G-T, he was the sports editor for Sunrise Publishing from 2000-2005 in Michigan. He subsequently owned and operated Buckland Media, a high school sports website, in Michigan until 2010. He and his wife Kim, who have an adult son, moved to Tonasket in 2010. Brent worked as a full time reporter/photographer at the G-T from 2011 - 2014).

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