The Brookhaven High tennis team members again showed they’re among the best in the MHSAA 5A ranks on Friday with a state title victory in Oxford at the MHSAA Individual Tennis Championships.

A year after winning a state championship in mixed doubles, Ole Brook freshman Caroline Kilpatrick brought home gold again, this time pairing with junior Lucy Allen to win the girls’ doubles championship over a team from Lafayette High.

It’s the second title in two years for the Allen household as Lucy’s older brother Sam won the 5A singles title last year as well.

Kilpatrick and Allen were seeded No. 9 in the tourney and began play on Thursday by beating the No. 8 seeded team from West Jones in the morning. They moved on to the semifinals with a win Thursday afternoon against a Lafayette team that was the No. 1 seed in the bracket.

In the semifinals Friday morning, the BHS duo beat Long Beach in a match that had a second set tiebreaker and then went to a tie-breaking third set as well.

Lafayette won the first set of the title match by a 6-3 advantage before BHS came back to tie things up with a 6-1 win in the second set. Kilpatrick and Allen won the third set 10-3 to secure top spot on the podium.