{"id":878386,"date":"2026-10-11T08:46:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T08:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/878386\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T08:46:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T08:46:22","slug":"hinst-mendez-and-tovar-qualify-for-5a-state-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/878386\/","title":{"rendered":"Hinst, Mendez and Tovar Qualify for 5A State Meet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/20261010-204600.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Hinst, Mendez and Tovar Qualify for 5A State Meet\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy EHS Athletics on X<\/p>\n<p>Three Emporia High tennis players are heading to the 5A State Meet following a strong showing at the Andover Regional on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Izabella Hinst earned her spot at state with a fourth-place finish in singles. She kicked off the tournament with two strong victories before dropping her final two matches.<\/p>\n<p>\u200bThe team of Chelsea Mendez and Alexa Tovar locked in fifth place to qualify for the next round. The duo turned in an impressive tournament, finishing with a 3-1 record overall.<\/p>\n<p>The trio will compete at the 5A State Meet, hosted at the Andover District Tennis Complex this coming Friday and Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Courtesy EHS Athletics on X Three Emporia High tennis players are heading to the 5A State Meet following&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":878387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-878386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=878386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/878387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}