McPHERSON— Macy Moyers cruised through Saturday’s McPherson invite and Monday’s WAC tournament with first place finishes and earned the WAC Player of the Year to boot.

Moyers, who is the all-time career win holder at GBHS, posted an undefeated 3-0 mark over the weekend opening up play with an 8-0 shutout victory over Rachel Rome of Salina South. The Panther senior then knocked off Derby’s Tiffany Voss in an 8-1 decision. That would set up the championship match against Reagan Wessel of Hutchinson in which Moyers pulled away with an 8-2 victory.

In No. 2 singles competition Addi Westhoff dropped an 8-4 opener to McPherson’s Ashley Achilles. Westhoff then defeated Valerie Esqueda of Liberal in a hard fought 8-5 decision before falling to McPherson’s Heidi Myers in cross play by a score of 8-1.

In No. 1 doubles play from Saturday Carly Boyd and Taylor Huslig fell in an opening round set to Jessica Field and Kim Reiser of Hutchinson in an 8-6 edging. That moved them to a match and an 8-4 win against Salina South’s Emma Kinkelaar and Emma Allen. Boyd and Huslig then defeated Cassy San Luis and Jazmine Murrillo in an 8-2 decision and closed out the day beating Amaya Molinar and Amanda Clawson by a score of 8-5.

Rebecca Dawson and Rachel Carpenter represented Great Bend in No. 2 doubles and opened play with an 8-6 victory over San Luis and Murillo of Liberal. The Panther duet then dropped an 8-0 decision to McPherson’s Ellea Ediger and Rachel Ivers. That set up a pool play match and victory against Joslyn Dinkel and Sylina Zhang of Hays by a score of 8-2. Dawson and Carpenter then dropped an 8-4 set against Hutchinson’s Grace Proett and Abby Brown.

MONDAY’S WAC TOURNAMENT

The Panthers hosted this year’s WAC meet on Monday and once again Moyers was at the top of her game. Moyers recorded three shutouts over four matches including an 8-0 opening round win over Valery Esqueda of Liberal. Moyers then defeated Dodge City’s Leah Stein by a score of 8-1 before shutting out Megan Bordewick (Garden City) and Brooke Forinash (Hays) in scores of 8-0.

In the second flight of singles Westhoff dropped an 8-5 opening set decision to Liberal’s Nikki Gill. Westhoff then fell 8-6 to Suzy Arkell of Dodge City before beating Garden City’s Linh Le, 8-5. She then lost to Sarah Wyse of Hays by a score of 8-1.

Huslig and Boyd won their opening round match in No. 1 doubles to Jordyn Apsley and Tierra Stoney in an 8-0 shutout. The Panther pair then won an 8-1 decision over Adriana Rodriguez and Hannah Sowers of Dodge City before dropping an 8-1 set to Garden City’s Shai Cartmill and Sally Dinkel. Huslig and Boyd closed out the day with a 8-7(6) tiebreaking victory over Sylina Zhang and Joslyn Dinkel of Hays to finish the tournament at 3-1.

In No. 2 doubles Dawson and Carpenter defeated Liberal’s Cassy San Luis and Jazmine Murillo before falling 8-6 to Skyler Childress and Marissavel Rodriguez of Dodge City. Dawson and Carpenter the picked up one more victory against Garden City’s Haley Victor and Amanda Powers, 8-5. The two then fell in their final match of the afternoon in an 8-3 decision to Gabby Taliaferro and Brianna Forinash of Hays.

“I was very impressed with our past two tournaments,” said GBHS coach Dustin Wheeler. “I believe we’re starting to play our best tennis of the season. WAC was very close and we came up short with a second place finish but the girls played their hearts out and left it all on the court and for that I’m very proud. Macy is playing her best tennis right now and it’s a perfect time with regional and state coming up,” he said.

This weekend’s regional meet will be hosted by Salina Central. Moyers will more than likely represent the Panthers as the top seed in singles.