JACKSON – It was a perfect end to a perfect season for St. Aloysius mixed doubles pair Bonney Neill and Jeremy White.

Neill and White capped an unbeaten season by winning the Class 1A Mixed Doubles title on Tuesday at Parham Bridges Tennis Center.

The St. Al pair whipped East Webster’s Sealy Smith and Chase Cohen 6-2, 6-2 in the championship match. Neill and White had earlier beaten Cami Willard and Adam Blackwell of Cathedral 6-1, 6-1 in the semifinals.

This was the second straight mixed doubles state title for Neill and White and the third tennis title overall for Neill, who won in 2003 in girls doubles.

&#8220This one was easier than last year,” said Neill, a junior. &#8220I don’t know what I’ll do next year without Jeremy, I guess it’ll be either singles or (girls’) doubles.”

In two years since forming a team with White, the St. Al pair has reeled off 27 match wins and two state titles. The only loss was to Class 5A power Northwest Rankin early in the 2005 season.

&#8220I think we’re something like 27-1 since we’ve played together and the only loss was to Northwest. But this year we were 14-0,” said White, a senior.

White would like to continue playing tennis next season.

&#8220I’m going to Mississippi College, so maybe I can keep playing,” he said.

For Neill, who hasn’t played USTA events since she was 14, tennis is just one of several sports she enjoys.

&#8220I do three other sports. Tennis is just another activity for me. I swim, cheer and play basketball. Swimming will be the first thing I do this summer. That and cheering. We also go to team basketball camp in June,” Neill said.

For St. Al coach Leonard Banks, Tuesday’s title run was another chance to watch a perfectly working pair play.

&#8220They became this good because they got in a groove early on,” Banks said. &#8220They haven’t lost a match together this year. Not too many high school players have done what they have done.”

East Webster’s Smith and Cohen had a chance early on, when they were up a break at 2-1 in the first set. Then Neill slammed home her serve and followed it up by helping break Cohen’s serve for a 3-2 lead.

Neill and White won eight straight games, earning the first set at 6-2 and taking a 3-0 lead in the second.

Sealy held serve to break the streak but it did little to slow down the inevitable.

Serving again at 2-5, Sealy managed to draw out the final game by staving off two match points. After 12 points created a second deuce, Sealy double-faulted to create a third match-point. This time, White caught Cohen flat-footed at the net with an arching backhand that landed behind Cohen’s back.

&#8220Really, my forehand is my best stroke, but the backhand worked for a couple of big points,” White said.

Banks also was pleased with his two other entries at the 1A Tournament. The boys’ doubles team of Hardy Farris and Chris Guizerix gave Cathedral’s Matt Goss and Austin Cardneaux their toughest match of the tournament with a 6-4, 6-3 decision.

Goss and Cardneaux easily won the final 6-2, 6-0 and helped clinch the team title for the Green Wave. St. Al finished in a five-way tie for second.

&#8220That match could’ve gone either way, it was 4-4 at one point. I also thought Matthew Jenkins played well in boys singles. He had some pretty intense points in his match,” Banks said.

Jenkins lost 6-3, 6-3 to St. John’s Jonathan Guel.

In 5A boys action, Jordan Henry’s competitive tennis career came to an end with a semifinal loss in the morning to Tupelo freshman Alex Thomas 7-5, 5-7, 6-2. Thomas later lost to Aaron DeCamp of Northwest Rankin in straight sets in the boys title match.

Henry has signed to play baseball for Ole Miss next year.

Tupelo won the team title, upending defending champ Northwest Rankin 15-10. Vicksburg was seventh with five points.

Clinton’s Ashley Hartley and Emily Newman won the 5A girls doubles title by beating Brandon’s Cecilly Monsour and Kayla McCarver 6-3, 6-1 in the finals.