ABILENE – The Brownwood High tennis team opened the season with a pair of victories at Rose Park Wednesday, edging Big Spring, 10-9, and trouncing Sweetwater, 18-1.

In the victory over Sweetwater, the Lions swept all nine of their matches on the court.

Tallying singles wins were No. 1 Peter Le (6-2, 6-3 over Christian Ceballos), No. 2 River Prado (6-0, 6-0 over Derek Torres), No. 3 Tyler Mitchell (6-4, 6-2 over Issac Lotzenhuser), No. 4 Taevion Nickerson (6-1, 6-0 over Brian Rangel), No. 5 Eric Smith (6-0, 6-0 over Vicente Ceduna), and No. 6 Thomas Stewardson (6-0, 6-0 over Dillan Prim).

Notching doubles victories were the No. 1 team of Le and Nickerson (6-0, 6-1 over Ceballos and Torres), the No. 2 duo of Prado and Mitchell (6-0, 6-0 over Lotzenhuser and Rangel), and the No. 3 tandem of Smith and Trine Baugh (6-0, 6-0 over Orduna and Prim).

The Lady Lions earned two singles wins on the court by No. 1 Emma Delgado (8-2 over Morgan Strebeck) and No. 3 Jazzmyn Sanchez (8-1 over Lily Jones). Claiming victories by default were No. 4 Madeline Goff, No. 5 Lyric Shaw and No. 6 Ihani Figueroa.

Girls doubles wins belonged to the No. 1 team of Delgado and Raylei Hickey (7-5, 6-2 over Strebeck and Sydney Ramirez), as well as No. 2 Goff and Sanchez and No. 3 Shaw and Ashlyn Bundick by default.

In mixed doubles competition, Figueroa and Chance Pinkney defeated Kilgore and Jones, 6-0, 6-1.

Against Big Spring, Brownwood won three of five 10-point tiebreakers to secure the win.

The Lions led the way with five singles and two double victories – No. 1 Le (6-3, 6-3 over Eric Landin), No. 2 Prado (6-0, 6-2 over Matthew Salazar), No. 3 Mitchell (6-1, 6-4 over Ethan Urias), No. 5 Smith (6-4, 6-2 over Mason Patterson), No. 6 Wesley Goodrich (7-6 [5], 6-2 over Gavin Corele), the No. 1 team of Le and Prado (7-5, 6-2 over Landin and Joaquin Arguello) and the No. 3 duo of Mitchell and Smith (6-7 [5], 6-3, 10-5).

For the Lady Lions, No. 1 Delgado (4-6, 7-5, 10-8 over Anaya Lamaye), No. 2 Hickey (6-4, 5-7, 10-8) and the No. 3 doubles team of Bundick and Anna Daniel (6-1, 6-3 over Ana Villagrana and Spencer Patterson) landed in the win column.

Brownwood also played five extra matches and won them all – Stewardson (8-3 over Shawn Olague), Baugh (8-5 over Donovan Ford) and Jacob Singleton (8-3 over Kaden Roberts) in boys singles; McKenzie Williams (8-5 over Patterson) in girls singles; and Stewardson and Pinkney (8-5 over Olague and Ford) in boys doubles.

The Lions and Lady Lions will tangle with Fredericksburg at 10 a.m. Thursday in Mason.