{"id":92184,"date":"2026-05-02T03:22:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T03:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/prep-tennis-shady-spring-liberty-to-battle-for-state-tournament-berths\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T03:22:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T03:22:53","slug":"prep-tennis-shady-spring-liberty-to-battle-for-state-tournament-berths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/prep-tennis-shady-spring-liberty-to-battle-for-state-tournament-berths\/","title":{"rendered":"Prep tennis: Shady Spring, Liberty to battle for state tournament berths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two area teams will lock up their berths in the state tennis tournament on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Shady Spring\u2019s and Liberty\u2019s boys and girls will meet at 2 p.m. at Shady Spring in the Class AA\/A Region 3 Team Tournament. Shady is the No. 2 seed and Liberty No. 3.<\/p>\n<p>Charleston Catholic is the No. 1 seed in the boys and girls brackets. The boys will meet No. 4 Bluefield in Shady Spring, while the Irish girls are scheduled to host No. 4 Herbert Hoover.<\/p>\n<p>All winners will qualify for the state tournament May 14-16 at the Kanawha City Community Center and Charleston Catholic High School.<\/p>\n<p>Shady Spring will also host the Region 3 singles and doubles tournaments Monday and Tuesday at 9 a.m. Monday will see predominantly singles matches, with as many doubles matches as possible.<\/p>\n<p>The four singles semifinalists and doubles finalists will advance to the state tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Region 3 is comprised of Independence, Greenbrier West, Midland Trail, River View, Westside, Wyoming East, Mount View and Braxton County, in addition to Shady Spring, Liberty, Bluefield, Charleston Catholic and Herbert Hoover.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/prep-tennis-shady-spring-liberty-003100427.html\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two area teams will lock up their berths in the state tennis tournament on Saturday. Shady Spring\u2019s and Liberty\u2019s boys and girls will meet at 2 p.m. at Shady Spring in the Class AA\/A Region 3 Team Tournament. Shady is the No. 2 seed and Liberty No. 3. Charleston Catholic is the No. 1 seed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[780,28969,17141,14198,27945,3263,2464,3269,7831],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}