The Atlantic Boys Tennis Doubles team of Grant Podhajsky and Cooper McDermott finished eighth at the Class 1A State Tennis Tournament at Byrne’s Park in Waterloo on Friday and Saturday.

The duo won two of three matches on Friday. They defeated Gannon Courtright and Navin Martin of Fairfield, 6-2, 6-0 in the first round.  Lost to Kyle Marek and Jake Thompson of LeMars in the second round 7-5, 6-1. They then won a consolation match to more on to day 2 with a 6-0, 4-6, and 10-5 in a tiebreaker over Mark Mosher and Brody Echer of Ballard.

On day two Podhajsky and McDermott lost to Mason Hulse and Corhin Wafful of Boone 6-4, 5-7, 1-0 (7) in the Consolation Semifinals. That moved them into the 7th place match where they fell to Alex Hinrichs and Ryan Jasper of Cedar Rapids, Xavier 6-1, 6-0. That result left Podhajsky and McDermott with an 8th place medal on their successful season.