MISSOULA — Heading into his senior tennis season at Gallatin High in Bozeman, Mason McCarty has yet to lose a high school singles match as a three-time state champion.

With two older sisters that have gone on to play college tennis — one at Hope College in Michigan and one at Kansas — he's grown up with a pair of the best teachers money can't buy.

"Playing against them allowed me to be scrappier and more creative with the way I play. I was young and was just trying to figure out anyway to compete against them, to stay in points and rallies with them. I think it made me more mentally tough and gave me more perseverance knowing that I had to go out there and try as hard as I could to stay in it," said McCarty

All that in-house competition has paid off for McCarty as Montana men's tennis h

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