Playing in the Class 6A girls tennis state tournament for the fourth and final time, Free State senior Ali Dodd teamed with freshman Keegan VanPelt for a sixth-place finish Saturday at Wichita’s Riverside Tennis Complex.

Dodd and VanPelt won a pair of matches, including one against teammates Gabby Gorman and Anna Peard, before losing their last match to Lucky Kendall and Larkin McLiney, of Shawnee Mission East. Their performance propelled the Firebirds to fifth in the team standings, the program’s highest placing since 2002.

Gorman and Peard won their final match, picking up a victory over Olathe North’s Mallory Brown/Kristen Knipp to take 11th place. The duo finished didn’t advance to the second day of the state tournament last year.

Dodd and VanPelt ended the season with a 33-5 record, while Gorman and Peard posted a 27-12 record.

Class 6A state tennis tournament

?Saturday at Riverside Tennis Complex

Team scores: Blue Valley North 58, Shawnee Mission East 36, Blue Valley Northwest 24, Washburn Rural 18, Free State 16, Manhattan 14, Blue Valley West 12, Blue Valley 11, Shawnee Mission Northwest 9, Olathe East 7, Olathe South 6, Olathe North 5, Olathe Northwest 5, Dodge City 2, Hutchinson 1, Campus 1.

FSHS results

Ali Dodd/Keegan VanPelt (sixth place): def. Gorman/Peard, FS, 9-1; def. Wolfe/Pryor, WR, 9-5; lost to Kendall/McLiney, SME, 9-0.

Gabby Gorman/Anna Peard (11th place): lost to Dodd/VanPelt, FS, 9-1; lost to Menke/Alfaro, OS, 9-7; def. Brown/Knipp, ON, 9-3.