Bexley junior Amiya Bowles lost only one set in her run through the OHSAA Division II state tennis bracket at the College of Wooster Thursday and Friday. That was a 7-6 set with Cincinnati Indian Hill junior Sophia Thompson in their semi-final match. Bowles won the next two sets, 6-4, 6-4, to move on to the finals.

In the title match, Bowles topped freshman Genevieve Hayden of Pepper Pike Orange, 6-4, 6-1. The undefeated Bexley Lion did not lose a point this tennis season until her district final match last Friday against Columbus School for Girls sophomore Iva Karagirova. The set lost to Thompson was the only one this school year.

Next year as a senior, Bowles will have the opportunity to win a fourth state individual title. Only one person, male or female, has ever done that in the State of Ohio. Andrea Farley, a former Indian Hill Brave, won championships from 1985 to 1988. Farley went on to play for the University of Florida, after which she competed professionally.

Olentangy Berlin sophomore Soleil Cordell was the Division I runner-up, falling to Mason junior Addison Cassidy, 6-0, 6-1. Cordell played in the state tournament as a freshman and lost only three matches this season. 

The Upper Arlington doubles team of senior Alice Hawley and sophomore Alexa Roth made it to the semi-finals in Division I before coming up short, 6-2, 6-3, against Mason junior Pratyusha Chaudhuri and sophomore Emma Wagner. Chaudhuri and Wagner went on to win the championship match.