College Station -- For the second straight year, Hondo High School has a tennis state semifinalist.

The mixed doubles team of Jack Rochat-Molly Coyne won its first match at Mitchell Tennis Center at Texas A&M on Monday afternoon, April 29, before falling in the semifinals later in the day.

The team which defeated Rochat-Coyne, the pair of Weston Uekert-Whitney Frazier of Abilene Wylie, went on to win the 3A mixed doubles championship. That was a recurring theme throughout the 3A division, where Wylie won all five state championships. Wylie won four of five last year.

Rochat-Coyne, the Region IV champions, opened on Monday with a noon match against Alec Lucas-Emily Howard of Center, the runners-up from Region III.

The first set was close throughout. Other than one service break each, the teams held serve all the way to 6-6, which forced a tiebreaker. The Owls prevailed in the tiebreaker, winning it 7-5, to move to the second set with a lead.

Hondo dominated the second set from the beginning, winning it 6-0.

With only a short break in between quarterfinal and semifinal matches, the team found the going tough against Uekert-Frazier, falling 6-0, 6-3, to wind up as state bronze medalists.

Coyne, a senior, becomes only the second two-time state semifinalist in Hondo tennis history.

In 2012, she teamed with Ellen Gilliam to reach the girls’ doubles’ semifinals.

Amy Crowell was a semifinalist in singles in 1992, and again the following year when she teamed with Alexia Ulbrich to reach the state finals in doubles.

Rochat, a junior, becomes the first two-generation Hondoan to reach the state tennis tournament, following in the footsteps of his dad, Jeff Rochat, now the HISD athletic director, who went to state in singles three times, 1984-86.

Extended family also has a few trips to the state tourney as well. Jack’s aunt, Sheila (Rochat) Rothe was a quarterfinalist for Sabinal in 1976, and a semifinalist in 1978. Jack’s cousins, Lance Rothe (2000-01) and Lana Rothe both reached state in doubles (2006-07) competition on two occasions, competing for D’Hanis. Both were part of semifinal teams as juniors, and finalists as seniors.

This year’s entry marks Hondo’s first time to take a team to state in the relatively short history of mixed doubles.

Hondo has one state tennis championship in its history, but it isn’t recent. John Wilson and Charles Wilson teamed to win the state doubles crown in 1918.

The runner-up in Region IV-3A mixed doubles, Adam Copps-Tatiana Bujnoch of Boerne, lost to the state runner-up from Vernon in three sets.