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KEVIN LIURBANA FRESHMAN SINGLESn Became the first freshman in 15 years to win the Frederick County Public

Schools boys singles title with a 7-5, 7-6 (7-1) victory over Frederick High’s Noah Stadelmann. The feat was last accomplished by former Urbana player Chris Meyer in 2003.

n Won the Region I championship with a 6-2, 6-0 victory over Mid-dletown’s Garrett Posey and then won his first-round match in the state tournament with a 6-1, 6-2 victory over Patterson Mill’s Tom Brosh.

n Using the forehand as his primary weapon, posted a record of 20-3 in his first season of high school tennis and led Urbana to the county team championship with an unbeaten record.

FIRST TEAM

ANISH BABU

SOPHOMORE MIXED DOUBLES

URBANA

n Finished second at the region tourna-ment to qualify for states in mixed doubles with partner Jessica Wu. Placed third at the county tournament to get into regionals.

HONORABLE MENTIONBrunswick—Brett Lazo, Jack Wilson; Catoctin—Travis Sheckels; Linganore—Jonathan Massey, Dylan Young; Middletown—Nathan Duke, Eric Fields, Cooper Fisher, Gage Kirkwood, Anath Nair; Oakdale—Luke Bebee, Zac Brown, Carter

Flayhart, Anthony Giuffre, Greg Jones, Vivek Patel; Thomas Johnson—Nathan Pinto; Tuscarora—Aboubacar d’Almeida, Martin Cevallos, Marcos Gonzalez, Tan Le, Joseph Lee; Urbana—Clayton Hedin; Walkersville—Sam Driscoll, Collin Jacobs, Hunter Owen, Tanner Owen, Walker Owen, Mike Pollak.

GARRETT POSEY

SENIOR SINGLES

MIDDLETOWN

n Qualfied for the state tournament after finishing second at regionals. Won 22 of 26 matches during his final season of high school tennis.

RICHARD LOMBARDO

JUNIOR MIXED DOUBLES

URBANA

n Won a match at the state tournament to advance to the quarterfinals after winning county and regional titles in mixed doubles with partner Sophie Nielson.

KEVIN LIGE

JUNIOR DOUBLES

URBANA

n Qualified for the state tournament with partner Van Holson after winning the county tournament and placing second at regionals. Finished 17-4 as a team.

JACK KAMINSKI

JUNIOR DOUBLES

MIDDLETOWN

n Won 19 of 22 matches this season with partner William Bower. Finished third in the county tournament to qualify for regionals.

VAN HOLSON

JUNIOR DOUBLES

URBANA

n Qualified for the state tournament with partner Kevin Lige after winning the county tournament and placing second at regionals. Finished 17-4 as a team.

WILLIAM BOWER

SENIOR DOUBLES

MIDDLETOWN

n Won 19 of 22 matches this season with partner Jack Kaminski. Finished third in the county tournament to qualify for regionals.

CHARLES RASMUSSEN

JUNIOR DOUBLES

LINGANORE

n Finished as the runner-up in the county tournament before placing third at regionals with partner Alexander Tran. Won 18 of 21 matches as a team.

KARTHICK SANKAR

FRESHMAN MIXED DOUBLES

TUSCARORA

n Finished as the runner-up in mixed doubles at the county tournament with partner Julia Slivka on their way to a third-place finish at regionals.

ALEXANDER TRAN

SENIOR DOUBLES

LINGANORE

n Finished as the runner-up in the county tournament before placing third at regionals with partner Charles Rasmussen. Won 18 of 21 matches as a team.

NOAH STADELMANN

JUNIOR SINGLES

FREDERICK

n A Swiss exchange student who finished the season with an 18-2 record, falling only to Urbana’s Kevin Li in the regular season and the final of the county tournament.

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By LANCE PUGMIRELos Angeles Times (TNS)

LOS ANGELES — The doom and gloom that others cast on the ongoing boxing career of Manny Pacquiao certainly isn’t penetrating him.

There are obvious rea-sons for alarm. He’s left his longtime trainer, Freddie Roach, is fighting for the first time in a year after get-ting roughed up in a loss, and he’s now 39 years old.

Securing the financing for his bout Saturday night (U.S. time) at Malaysia’s 16,000-seat Axiata Arena was a harrowing ordeal that

wasn’t resolved until last month, ticket sales are slug-gish and he’s fallen from routine pay-per-view treat-ment in the United States to placement on the ESPN+ app.

“Everything is fine and I’m excited,” Pacquiao told the Los Angeles Times re-cently in a telephone con-versation. “It’s going to be a good fight.”

Pacquiao (59-7-2, 38 knockouts) is fighting Ar-gentina’s Lucas Mathhysse (39-4, 36 KOs) for the sec-ondary World Boxing As-sociation welterweight belt that Matthysse won in Jan-uary by overcoming a slow

start to knock out Tewa Ki-ram in the eighth round.

“We know Matthysse’s style is very aggressive, so there’s little option but for there to be a lot of boxing in the ring,” Pacquiao said.

The question is what cal-iber of boxing Pacquiao can provide against In-dio-trained Matthysse.

After injuring his left shoulder doing push-ups off sand bags at Roach’s Wild Card Boxing Club in Los Angeles in 2015, Pacquiao decided to fight Floyd May-weather Jr. in the most lu-crative fight in history, and couldn’t effectively throw power punches, souring

fans on the sport as May-weather fought evasively.

While Pacquiao returned to defeat Jessie Vargas for the World Boxing Organi-zation welterweight belt in 2016, he was manhandled by Jeff Horn in Australia last July with little referee in-volvement and lost his belt by a disputed decision.

Earlier this year, Pac-quiao replaced Roach with a team led by former assistant trainer “Buboy” Fernandez.

“I think — and hope — that Manny wins,” Roach said. “But Manny has a bad shoulder. The rehab on that shoulder was done by pray-ing and swimming in the

ocean.“The ocean has heal-

ing properties, so I liked the ocean more than the pray-ing, but when you’re tell-ing [Pacquiao surgeon Neal] El-Attrache that the rehab is sea water and praying, he would frown. So, to me, that shoulder is still a dangerous thing, when you’re condi-tioning by putting pressure on the upper body.”

Pacquiao said he’s di-vided up the work for Fer-nandez, conditioning coach Justin Fortune and new assistant trainer Nonito Donaire Sr.

“I give each of them a task, to watch my defense,

my footwork, my head movement and the accu-racy of the punches, and I had good sparring with four boxers,” Pacquiao said.

“I’m enjoying train-ing. I’m happy. I still have my speed and power. I’m thankful I still have that skill. And we work hard here. The weather [was] really hot [in the Philippines] and we were running through the mountain and sparring. … This camp is focusing on the power, and the accuracy of the punches is the main fo-cus.

“I’m not going to prom-ise a knockout, but if there’s a chance, why not?”

Despite reasons for concern, Pacquiao upbeat heading into Mathhysse fight