The brackets for the District 3 singles tennis tournament at Hershey Racquet Club this weekend were released late Wednesday.
The Mid-Penn Conference placed five players in the AAA field and three in AA, including Boiling Springs' P.J. Greenbaum, whose school does not field a team.
No MPC players are seeded. Top seeds went to Derek Hagino of Hempfield in AAA and Ricardo Saad of Wyomissing in AA.
Mid-Penn AAA players in districts
Ben Kunkel, Red Land*
Elbert Mets, Hershey
Ethan Lynn, Cumberland Valley
Josh Ringquist, Mechanicsburg
Peter Landis, Red Land
Mid-Penn AA players in districts
Paxton Fitzpatrick, Camp Hill*
P.J. Greenbaum, Boiling Springs
Garrett Malanka, James Buchanan
*Kunkel won his second straight Mid-Penn AAA singles title Wednesday over Mets.
*Fitzpatrick also repeated, as AA champ, with a victory Tuesday over Malanka.
District 3 team tennis gets underway Thursday with the AAA bracket. A whopper off the bat features Cumberland Valley, the top team in the AAA power rankings, taking on the rival No. 8 Hershey Trojans in their backyard, at noon.
The AA team tennis field starts play Friday, featuring No. 3 Camp Hill and eighth-ranked James Buchanan.
All singles play begins Saturday.
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