WICHITA, Kan. — For the second time in as many weekends, Cooper Star, of Mitchell, returned from a junior tennis tournament with first-place hardware.

After capturing singles and doubles titles at the Rapid City Open on Oct. 14-15, Star, an eighth-grade Kernel tennis player, was on the road again last weekend, this time winning at the Kansas Crestview Country Club Junior Intermediate II Tournament on Oct. 21.

In the five-player, round-robin competition, Star amassed a perfect 4-0 record, winning 32 games and losing just two on the day.

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