Verhasselt competes at state tennis

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.