Boys tennis sectionals began on Wednesday with semi-final matches at Carmel’s Todd Witsken Tennis Center and the Hamilton Southeastern courts.
The No. 1-ranked and defending state champion Greyhounds easily advanced to this afternoon’s championship by beating University 5-0. Carmel won all five matches 6-0, 6-0.
The ‘Hounds will face No. 10 Guerin Catholic for the title; the Golden Eagles beat Westfield 4-1. Guerin won all of its matches in straight sets.
“Across the board, I thought we played very, very well,” said GC coach Joe Lustig. “I was particularly pleased with a couple of positions. Michael Aikman at No. 3 singles would’ve lost a match like that earlier in the season and he managed to play extremely well.”
Parker Kalis won at No. 1 singles for the Shamrocks, which qualifies him for the individual singles tournament. Play will begin in that next week.
Carmel and Guerin Catholic will play for the championship at 4:15 p.m. today.
At Southeastern, No. 8 Fishers edged the No. 23 host Royals 3-2 to advance to today’s championship there. The Tigers won all three singles matches, while Southeastern won both doubles matches. That includes No. 1 doubles Mark Slaninka and Andrew Myers, who move to the individual doubles tournament.
Fishers will play Noblesville, a 4-1 winner over Hamilton Heights. The Millers won all of their matches in straight sets. Hudson Hochstedler got the Huskies’ lone win, at No. 2 singles.
The championship at HSE starts at 4:30 p.m.
AT CARMEL
Carmel 5, University 0
No. 1 singles: Patrick Fletchall def. Logan Hubbard 6-0, 6-0
No. 2 singles: Presley Thienenman def. Sean Markey 6-0, 6-0
No. 3 singles: Nishanth Basavareddy def. Matt Hurley 6-0, 6-0
No. 1 doubles: Timmy Dixon and Drew Michael def. Hunter Maxwell and Andrew Tang 6-0, 6-0
No. 2 doubles: Garrett Lloyd and Uday Lomada def. Will Spence and Phil Magnus 6-0, 6-0
Guerin Catholic 4, Westfield 1
No. 1 singles: Parker Kalis (W) def. Michael Wade (GC) 7-6 (5), 6-1
No. 2 singles: Cole Metzger (GC) def. Quentin Markle (W) 6-4, 6-1
No. 3 singles: Michael Aikman (GC) def. Harrison Sindelar (W) 6-2, 6-2
No. 1 doubles: Jacob Bratton and Wyatt Metzger (GC) def. Connor Maris and Carson Maris (W) 6-0, 6-0
No. 2 doubles: AJ Hacker and Shane Shuler (GC) def. Nicholas Mabe and Joseph Day (W) 6-2, 6-4
AT HAMILTON SOUTHEASTERN
Fishers 3, Hamilton Southeastern 2
No. 1 singles: William White (F) def. McGuire Wolfe (HSE) 6-2, 6-0
No. 2 singles: Nic Knoderer (F) def. Elias Yarling (HSE) 6-1, 6-3
No. 3 singles: Marcus Luke (F) def. Otto Lutz (HSE) 6-3, 6-1
No. 1 doubles: Mark Slaninka and Andrew Myers (HSE) def. Ethan Fairfield and Sam Barrett (F) 6-1, 7-6 (7-4)
No. 2 doubles: Matt Meyer and Matthew Parker (HSE) def. Drew Dixon and Shravan Suravarjjala (F) 6-2, 6-1
Noblesville 4, Hamilton Heights 1
No. 1 singles: Jake Hoffman (N) def. Hawkins Hochstedler (HH) 6-1, 6-3
No. 2 singles: Hudson Hochstedler (HH) def. Jackson Nance (N) 7-5, 6-3
No. 3 singles: Zach Greer (N) def. Adam Gross (HH) 6-1, 6-2
No. 1 doubles: Ben Smith and Evan Voigt (N) def. Zane Remsen and Nick Rice (HH) 6-1, 6-2
No. 2 doubles: Ryan Plummer and Jackson Ramey (N) def. Josh Russell and JP Etchison (HH) 6-1, 6-3