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[Sonny Dearth]

Jamestown senior Jacob Braig said Monday he will attend Christopher Newport University and play tennis for the Captains next season. Braig, the first Eagle to win 100 boys tennis matches -- singles and doubles combined -- will join his brother John on the team next year, when John will be a junior. John played mostly at No. 3 for the regionally ranked Captains this season.

The bad news for Jacob Braig: He suffered a relatively minor back injury Saturday while practicing and will miss Monday's home match against Tabb, which likely will determine the Bay Rivers District regular-season championship. Both teams -- and one more from the Bay Rivers -- will head to the Region I team tournament, though.

Braig and Tabb's Adi Shetty are considered the top players in the Bay Rivers and perhaps and Region I, so Saturday's injury scrubbed what would have been a very interesting No. 1 match in the Tigers-Eagles showdown. Those two well could play in the district and region tournaments, though.