Even though they only made it to the semifinal portion of the Oct. 10 Section III Division I tournament, Baldwinsville’s girls tennis player Alina Minkova, along with the doubles team of Jennifer Stone and Brooke Tutor, both reched last week’s Section III state qualifier.

The top 16 singles and top 15 doubles teams were at Drumlins, each of them battling for three open spots in this weekend’s state championship tournament at Sound Shore Tennis Center in Port Chester.

Steeled by its tough competition all year, Stone and Tutor won in the opening round of the qualifier as Jamesville-DeWitt’s duo of Katie Tzizanis and Natalie Alweis were unable to continue due to injury.

Sitting two wins from a berth in the state meet, Stone and Tutor ran into Oneida’s duo of Lauren Skibitski and Brianna Laureti in the quarterfinals and lost in straight sets 6-2, 6-2.

Skibitski and Laureti  that would reach the state tournament when they beat West Genseee’s Mikayla Mannara and Katie Viau in the semifinals two days later, eventually finishing second in the qualifier to Fayetteville-Manlius’ Maggie Bonomo and Katerina Atallah in three sets 6-1, 4-6, 6-2.

Meanwhile, Minkova could not make it out of the opening round of the singles tournament, paired up against Auburn’s top-seeded Julia Wagner and staking a 6-2, 6-0 defeat as Wagner, like Skibitski and Laureti on the doubles side, eventually qualified for the state tournament by reaching the finals, where she beat New Hartford’s Sarah Corasanti 7-6 (7-5), 4-6, 6-4 in a match that took more than two hours to complete.