The Brownwood High tennis team locked up third place from District 6-4A and secured a bi-district playoff showdown with Peaster thanks to Tuesday’s 15-4 victory over Stephenville in the regular season finale.

The victory was the completion of a match that began Thursday, as Brownwood built a 9-1 lead before inclement weather forced action to be suspended.

“I thought we finished up district strong,” said Brownwood tennis head coach Crystal Blazek. “We let the Lampasas match slip away there in a close one, but otherwise I thought we completed well in district. We came out on top against Stephenvile in doubles, 6-1, and that’s what we stress. We were up 9-1 and had the weather delay and had to come back and finish it today. We dropped two real close matches with the No. 1 and No. 2 boys singles, but it’s tough when you take a break of a couple of days and have to resume.”

The Lady Lions doubles teams led the way by sweeping the competition over the two days of action, with victories earned by No. 1 Victoria Ramos and Aishwarya Nigayle (6-0, 6-1 over Shyla Smith and Jayci Smith), No. 2 Tatum Dehart and Natalie Mares (6-3, 6-2 over Ella Shepherd and Addie Post), and No. 3 Raylei Hickey and Claire Meinecke (6-0, 6-3 over Madeline Haggard and McKenna Pack).

Tallying doubles wins for the Lions were No. 2 Nathan Ramos and Dillon Gatlin (6-2, 6-0 over Eliyah Cortez and Gabriel Cortez), and No. 3 Taevion Nickerson and Taylor Wallace (6-2, 6-3 over Wesley Post and Richmond).

The mixed doubles duo of Wesley Goodrich and Emma Delgado added a victory by default.

In singles competition, triumphant Lady Lions included No. 1 Ramos (6-1, 6-1 over Shyla Smith), No. 2 Nigayle (6-1, 6-2 over Post), No. 3 Dehart (6-2, 6-1 over Shepherd), No. 5 Mares (6-1, 6-2 over Pack) and No. 5 Hickey (6-1, 6-1 over Haggard).

For the Lions, victories were claimed by No. 3 Ramos (6-1, 6-0 over Eliyah Cortez), No. 4 River Prado (6-1, 6-0 over Gabriel Cortez), No. 5 Wallace (6-0, 6-2 over Post), and No. 6 Eric Waldrop (6-2, 6-2 over Cody Twing).

Brownwood (8-5, 2-2) will face District 5-4A runner-up Peaster, which is playing up a classification for tennis, in the bi-district round of the playoffs at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 12 at Cleburne High School.

“I feel good about us, but I really don’t know what we’re looking at in Peaster,” Blazek said. “They normally have a great team, so we’ll have be ready to go when we match up with them.”