Charlotte, Raleigh girls tennis avid gamers dominate NCHSAA bid championships Saturday
Avid gamers from the Charlotte and Raleigh dilemma dominated play Saturday in the bid girls’ tennis championships, winning three of the four crew titles and six of eight person championships.
Charlotte Catholic had the excellent day, sweeping the singles, doubles and crew titles in 3A.
Team championships had been certain on the premise of how singles and doubles entries from colleges fared.
Other dilemma crew champions had been Hough in 4A and Pine Lake Prep in 1A. Hendersonville won the 2A crew title.
Pine Lake Prep’s Andersen Schubert successfully defended her 1A singles championship and was once named that division’s Most Precious Player.
In 3A, Charlotte Catholic’s Maggie Gehrig, member of a 2019 title doubles crew, won the singles championship this time. Her doubles accomplice in 2019, Ava Tan, teamed with Kaitlyn Tozzi to retract the 2021 doubles crown.
The closing girls’ tennis bid championships had been held in November 2019.
One more repeat champion was once Fred T. Foard’s Alexis Wolgemuth in 2A. She won in doubles in 2019 and took the 2A singles crown Saturday.
And a crew from Be taught Triangle High took the 1A doubles crown.
Listed below are highlights from every tournament:
Class 4A
Mooresville’s Julie Abrams, a doubles runner-up in 2019, defeated Millbrook’s Jill gruber 6-2, 6-2 for the singles crown at Millbrook Commerce Park in Raleigh.
Cary’s Brianna Viets and Hough’s Orianna Espinoza misplaced in the semifinals, however Espinoza was once named 4A’s Most Precious Player.
The doubles crown went to the Hoggard crew of Elizabeth Vollmin and Macy Morrison. They beat Hough’s Jessica Branon and Meir Volk in a marathon remaining, 3-6, 7-6 (7-5), 7-6 (7-4).
Falling in the semifinals had been Myers Park’s Carson Weber and Mia Basinger, and Leesville Street’s Diana Higgins and Rachel Alvis.
Class 3A
Charlotte Catholic Maggie Gehrig swept Madison Hill of Jay M. Robinson 6-2, 6-2 for the singles title at Burlington Tennis Complex.
In doubles, the Cougars’ Tan and Tozzi downed Marvin Ridge’s Avery Sager and Jeslyn Pratiknjo 6-2, 6-2. The East Chapel Hill crew of Ingrid Mast and Maddie Moore misplaced in the semifinals.
Class 2A
Fred T. Foard’s Alexis Wolgemuth won a 3-dilemma battle over Jessica Fuchas of Oak Grove, 6-1, 1-6, 6-4, for the title. Newton-Conover’s Alexa Allison misplaced in the semifinals.
Hendersonville’s sisters crew of McCullough and Eliza Perry downed Salisbury’s Lillie Rusher and Meredith Burton 6-2, 6-1 in the finals. West Lincoln’s Brogan Heavner and Etta Godfrey fell in the semifinals.
McCullough Perry was once named Most Precious Player. The meet was once held at Cary Tennis Park.
Class 1A
Gray Stone Day’s Emma Grace Bost, a semifinalist in 2019, battled Pine Lake Prep’s Andersen Schubert to 3 sets in the title match, with Schubert winning 6-7 (7-3), 7-5, 6-0.
Franklin Academy’s Helen Brockmann misplaced in the semifinals at Cary Tennis Park.
The doubles title went to Be taught Triangle’s Sabrina Grewal and Olivia Hankinson, by a 7-6 (7-5), 6-0 recover from East Surry’s Tara Martin and Evelyn Ruedisueli.
Falling in the semifinals had been Pine Lake Prep’s crew of Sophia Taffet and Syria Mannepalli and the Franklin Academy crew of Anisah Sison and Abby Armistead.
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