{"id":602143,"date":"2026-04-12T13:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T13:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/602143\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T13:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T13:43:08","slug":"pirate-boys-tennis-3rd-at-lima-tourney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/602143\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirate boys tennis 3rd at Lima tourney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Cort Reynolds<\/p>\n<p>LIMA__The Bluffton High School boys tennis team finished a strong third at the seven-team Lima City Tournament on Saturday, April 11.<\/p>\n<p>Elida won the tightly-bunched event with 23 points, followed closely by Maumee Valley Country Day (22) and Bluffton (21).<\/p>\n<p>Kenton and Wapakoneta tied for fourth with 15 points apiece. LCC ended up sixth (5), and Bath came in last (2).<\/p>\n<p>Pirate sophomore Toby Yarnell won the C singles flight championship with an 8-2 victory over Kenton\u2019s Cale Harshfield in the title round.<\/p>\n<p>The Bluffton sophomore duo of Micah Lemley and Ezra Nygaard took second in the B flight doubles. They lost to Jostpille and Solomon of Elida in the finals, 8-3.<\/p>\n<p>Championship Match Results<\/p>\n<p>A Singles &#8211; Sam Williams (MVCD) d. Leyton Staley (Elida) 8-3\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>B Singles &#8211; Yesh Rathmore (MVCD) d. Seth Spencer (Kenton) 8-1\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>C Singles &#8211; Toby Yarnell (Bluffton) d. Cale Harshfield (Kenton) 8-2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A Doubles &#8211; Ellerbrock\/Das (MVCD) d. Altenbach\/Etzkorn (ELI) 8-0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>B Doubles &#8211; Jostpille\/Solomon (Elida) d. Lemley\/Nygaard (Bluffton) 8-3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Cort Reynolds LIMA__The Bluffton High School boys tennis team finished a strong third at the seven-team Lima&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-602143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}