JACKSON &045; One state championship and a couple runners-up were good, but it wasn’t enough on Tuesday.

Cathedral got a title in boys’ doubles but couldn’t fend off St. Joseph of Greenville at the Class 1A tennis tournament at Bridges Tennis Center in Jackson. The Irish won the boys’ and girls’ singles and eventually finished with six points to Cathedral’s four in the final standings.

&uot;They’ve won state the last 10 or 12 years,&uot; Cathedral head coach Cloyce Hinton said. &uot;They’re the powerhouse in 1A tennis. I think the last time they lost was in 2001. Cathedral won it then, and that was the last time they had been beaten. We were close. We’ll be better next year. We’ve got everybody coming back but (two). We’ll be OK.&uot;

Turner Smith and Clay Pennington won the boys’ doubles in commanding fashion to finish off their second state title. The pair opened with a commanding 6-0, 6-0 win over Union team Patrick Burns and Wesley Driskoll to meet St. Joe in the finals after it beat St. Aloysius 6-2, 6-1.

The St. Joe team of Cheston Casio and Robert Curry won the first set, but the Cathedral team ended up taking the match 2-6, 6-2, 7-6 and 7-1 on the tie-breaker. Pennington and Smith had to fight back in the third set 5-2 before rallying in the next three games to tie it up at 5-5.

In girls’ doubles, Kelin Hendricks and Mattie Smith got past the Union team of Clancy and Kim Cleveland, 6-0, 4-6, 6-2 to get to the finals against the St. Aloysius team of Carrie and Bonnie Neill &045; a 6-2, 7-6, 8-6 winner over St. Joe and a winner over Cathedral in the finals of the division tournament.

St. Al won it in straight sets, 6-2, 6-4.

&uot;Mattie and Kelin both played real well,&uot; Hinton said. &uot;That was the team they played in district, and they got beat pretty good. But today they came back and played well. In the second set they jumped on them 3-0.&uot;

In boys’ singles, Matt Goss got by Calhoun City’s Torace Armstrong in the semifinals, 7-5, 3-6, 7-6 and 6-2 in the tie-breaker to advance to the finals against St. Joe’s Zach Molin.

Molin, however, had little problem in the finals in taking a 6-2, 6-1 win over Goss.

&uot;The semifinal was a very good match,&uot; Hinton said. &uot;I was very proud of Matt. He ran into a buzzsaw with the St. Joe player. That kid is one of the top-ranked players in the state in 16-and-under. Matt was just never able to do anything.&uot;

In mixed doubles, Cathedral’s Kate Ellard and Will Carter got off to a slow start before the St. Joseph team of Caroline Oakes and Charles Cascio won the match, 6-2, 6-4. But Resurrection’s Cannon Ledford and Hillary Polchow, who edged Cathedral in the finals at the division tournament, topped the St. Joe team, 6-2, 6-2, in the finals.