SALISBURY — The Marvin Ridge High girls tennis team advanced to the third round of the 3A dual team state playoffs after blanking East Rowan 6-0 on Wednesday.

The Mavericks (14-2) were co-champions of the Southern Carolina 3A/4A Conference with Weddington, but won a tiebreaker match to earn the top seed into the dual team playoffs.

MR No. 1 seed Hannah Florian defeated East Rowan’s Brittany Honeycutt 6-1, 6-0; Minali Nigam defeated Devon Carpening 7-6, 4-6, 10-1; Danielle David defeated Megan Bullins 6-0, 6-0, Mariel Emery defeated Kayela Wilson 6-2, 6-0, Hannah Farley defeated Katie Cassadey 6-4, 6-0 and Paige Nester defeated Hannah Pressley 6-0, 6-2.

Marvin Ridge has won all 12 of its matches in the dual team playoffs, but will face their toughest competition yet when they host Charlotte Catholic (18-4) next Tuesday.

Charlotte Catholic is the No. 1 seed from the Mega-7 Conference and defeated SCC co-champion Weddington 5-1 in the first round of the dual team playoffs.

“[Catholic] is extremely deep and a very good team,” MR coach Michael Watson said. “We’re going to need to really rely on the depth of our team to pull out some singles wins and get us to doubles.”

Individuals gearing up

Five players in the individual state playoffs for girls tennis will represent Union County this weekend.

Cuthbertson’s doubles team of sisters McKenna and Kalli Karas will compete in the 2A state playoffs at the Cary Tennis Center in Cary.

McKenna, a junior, and Kalli, a freshman, are 12-1 as a doubles team this season.

McKenna and Kalli earned their spot in the state playoffs after finishing second in the 2A Mid-Western Regional Tournament last weekend.

Playing as the No. 1 seed, “McKalli” breezed through the first three matches of regionals, winning 36 out of 38 games, but fell (3-6, 6-2, default) to the second-seeded team of Erika Nelson and Katelyn Storey from Salisbury High.

Nelson and Storey are 22-0 on the season.

The Karas sisters will face Abigail Armstrong and Bailey Proctor from Tarboro High in the first round of the state playoffs this weekend.

Armstrong and Bailey made their way to the semifinals of the 2A Eastern Regional Tournament.

Weddington will send Meredith Branham to the 3A state playoffs in singles play, while Kindell Schmitt and Casey Rowe will compete in doubles play.

The 3A playoffs will be held at the Burlington Tennis Center in Burlington.

Branham, a No. 2 seed, will face Beth Batchelor, a No. 3 seed from Washington High in round one.

Schmitt and Rowe will be facing Lindsay Thomas and Kate Gray from Rocky Mountain High in round one of doubles.

Both the 2A and 3A playoffs will begin Friday at 10 a.m. and will resume Saturday at 9 a.m.