STANWOOD — Marysville Pilchuck High School’s Corey Coombs and Jared Randall entered the Wesco 4-A North Divisional Tennis Tournament on Oct. 18 as the lone Tomahawks in the event, but made the most of their opportunities as Randall went deep into the consolation bracket and Coombs was valiant, falling only to Stanwood power Gergo Muller in the final.

Randall fell on day 1 but returned to blank Arlington’s Peter Forster in his first consolation match, 6-0, 6-0. Randall fought to the bitter end against Lake Stevens’ Alex Thompson in his next match, falling 6-2, 3-6, 6-4 in the tiebreaker set.

“Jared had a good tournament,” Tomahawk tennis coach Randy Davis said. “He lost a tough three-set match in the consolation round, but his effort was outstanding. He had a good year and I’m happy I was able to coach him for at least one season.”

Coombs engaged in a battle of wills with Monroe’s Howard Chen for three hours and three minutes, coming from behind to win a tiebreaker 6-4, 1-6, 7-5 to reach the final against Müller, who had not yet yielded a set. Coombs fell to Müller 6-0, 6-3.

“Corey played some of his best tennis in the first set (of the final) while losing 0-6,” Davis said. “It sounds funny, but Gergo is a great player and Corey was striking the ball extremely well — he really didn’t make many mistakes.”