St. Mary’s fell to Austin Prep in girls tennis action at the GE courts on Friday, but Spartan coach John Wynne found some positives in the 4-1 decision.”Sometimes, you have to take a loss and find something good out of it,” Wynne said.One positive was the caliber of the Spartans’ opponent. The Cougars are the Catholic Central League champions.”They’re pretty good,” Wynne said. “We gave them a battle.”The coach also said, “It was a good warmup for the tournament.”Alex Smith won 8-2 at second singles for St. Mary’s (12-5). Stacey Politis, in her first time playing singles, lost 8-6 at the three spot.Wynne also saluted his six seniors – Smith, Brooke McKinnon, Laura Benoit, Alex Helleberg, Vanessa DiFillipo, and Caitlin Fitzgerald.L’field 3, Andover 2At Andover, the Pioneer Express made it back-to-back wins over back-to-back league champion opponents. On Thursday Lynnfield stopped Swampscott, the NEC champ; on Friday, the win came over the MVC champ Warriors.The Pioneer winners all finished their individual seasons undefeated: Sarah O’Neill, who won at first singles 6-0, 6-0; Allison Bodek, second singles, 6-1, 6-2; and – in the decisive match – Tara Soni-Julia Broding, first doubles, 6-3, 7-5. O’Neill and Bodek each finished 16-0; Soni and Broding each finished 13-0.As for the team itself, Lynnfield has a 17-0 record. The last time it finished a regular season undefeated was in 2007. The Pioneers now await the state tournament, which they have made for the past 27 years. Pairings are Wednesday.Bev. 5, Classical 0 (1st game)Bev. 5, Classical 0 (2nd)At Beverly, a tennis twinbill produced identical results. The Panthers’ (15-2) brought the same slate to each match, with Sabrina Salmela winning 6-1, 6-1 in Round One and 6-0, 6-1 in Round Two; Sophie Blau, 6-1, 6-1 in Round One and 6-2, 6-2 in Round Two; Gina Pinciaro, 6-0, 6-0 in Round One and 6-0, 6-0 in Round Two; Kate Johnson-Robyn Spiridigliozzi, 6-1, 6-0 in Round One and 6-0, 6-4 in Round Two; and Ally Dettorre-Liz Zarkades, 6-0, 6-1 in Round One and 6-1, 6-1 in Round Two.Classical (4-12) finishes up against Marblehead today.Revere 5, Malden 0At Malden, the Patriots (9-8) clinched a tournament berth with five straight set wins.At first singles, Zerina Dervisivic won, 6-1, 7-6 (9-7); while Sabrina Sot won at second singles, 6-4, 6-3. At third singles, Elma Meskovic won, 6-3, 6-1.Victoria Mauro and Cleopatra Duque won, 7-5, 6-4, at first doubles; while Donna Le and Carolina Zanetta won, 6-2, 3-6, 6-1, at second doubles.Revere closes out its regular season with a match against Beverly today (10 a.m.) at Danvers High.BOYS TENNISMalden 3, Revere 2At Malden, the Patriots lost ? but got some good news nevertheless. That’s because, after the close defeat, Revere coach Mike Flynn told his team the news he’d saved from several days earlier: His team was going to the state tournament after securing runner-up status to Peabody in the NEC Large.”They were very excited,” said Flynn, who got the good news from AD Keith Correia, who had contacted the MIAA. “It was tough that we lost. It was a close match. Their spirits were lifted once they found out.”Two years ago, Revere finished 1-17. Last year, the Patriots went 5-13. This season, they finished 8-8 (8-2 NEC Large).John Nguyen and Michael Truong won 6-3, 6-4 at first doubles. Carlos Monroy and Francesco Tartaglia won 6-3, 6-1 at second doubles.M’head 5, Classical 0At Marblehead, Daveth Cheth played well in a 6-0, 6-2 second singles loss for the Rams (9-8).Marblehead had wins from Justin Hyte at first singles, 6-0, 6-0; Alec Eidelmans, second singles, 6-0, 6-2; Will Lynn, third singles, 6-1, 6-0; Wes York-Doug Carey, first singles, 5-0 (Classical retired due to injury); and Jon Gammel-Gavin Frisch, 6-2, 6-1, at second doubles. Marblehead is 18-1, 16-0 NEC.Man-Essex 4, S’scott 1At Swampscott, Colin Toner won 6-2, 6-4 at first singles for Swampscott (12-6, 12-4 NEC).MC 3, Danvers 2At Danvers, the Falcons finished 10-10 (9-7 NEC); their next st