Shorewood boys tennis team beats Jackson 4-3 in Wesco South showdown
Published 9:00 pm Friday, September 7, 2001
Herald staff
MILL CREEK – Shorewood, last season’s Western Conference 4A South Division champion, showed it hasn’t lost a beat in the new look Wesco South by defeating last season’s Wesco 3A runnerup Jackson 4-3 Friday at Jackson High School in boys tennis action.
With the victory Shorewood improves to 2-0 in league and overall. Jackson is 1-1.
Shorewood took control of the meet early by taking three of four singles matches.
In No. 2 singles, Justin Michelson overcame a first-set loss (4-6) to Jackson’s David Wong to win the next two sets 6-3 and 6-4.
In No. 1 doubles, brothers Kris and Kory Pope of Jackson stayed undefeated and kept the Wolves alive in the match cutting the Shorewood lead to 3-2.
But Shorewood’s No. 2 doubles team of Keith Schneider and Steve McCall finished off a very good Jackson team 6-0 and 6-3 to clinch the victory.
Meadowdale 7, Everett 0: In a match that at one point was tied 4-4 in the third set, Brandon Lucero defeated Brandon Wickland to lead the Mavericks to the Wesco South Division victory.
Singles-Lucero (M) def. Wickland, 6-4, 0-6, 6-4; Lee (M) def. Johnson, 6-0, 6-4; Morrison (M) def. Neilson, 6-0, 6-2; Park (M) def. Wagar, 6-3, 6-3. Doubles-Staley-Chu (M) def. Nichols-Sweevey, 6-3, 6-3; Bettinghouse-McGinnis (M) def. Swanson-Sheraton, 6-2, 7-6(2); Knight-Knight (M) def. Barnett-McKee, 6-2, 6-0. Records-Everett 0-2 in league, 0-2 overall. Meadowdale 2-0, 2-0.
Shorecrest 5, Lynnwood 2: No. 1 singles player Niels Pedersen won in two sets to lead the Scots to the Wesco South Division victory.
Singles-Pedersen (SC) def. Wise, 6-1, 6-0; Auriemma (SC) def. Hjertstedt, 7-5, 3-6, 6-1; Geddes (SC) def. Thomson, 6-1, 6-1; Liu (SC) def. Z. Wachtveitl, 6-3, 6-1. Doubles-Crollard-Jang (L) def. Bae-Tu, 6-2, 6-3; Hildebrand-Frisk (SC) def. J. Wachtveitl-Neth, 6-7, 6-2, 6-3; Bautista-Peterson (L) def. Leigh-Peters, 6-1, 7-6. Records-Lynnwood 0-2 in league, 0-2 overall. Shorecrest 1-1, 1-1.
Edmonds-Woodway 7, Kamiak 0: Eli Shields won at No. 3 singles in three sets in Edmonds-Woodway’s Wesco South victory.
Singles-Yusi (EW) def. Rollins, 6-1, 6-3; Minaker (EW) def. Lee, 6-2, 6-2; Shields (EW) def. Busch, 4-6, 6-1, 6-1; Fenning (EW) def. Holzer, 6-2, 7-5. Doubles-Nelson-Heideman (EW) def. K. Yoon-A. Yoon, 6-2, 6-4; Kent-McLeary (EW) def. Gihm-Dang, 6-3, 6-1; Niles-Sinanan (EW) def. Baik-Ro, 6-2, 7-6 (7-3). Records-Kamiak 1-1 in league, 1-1 overall. Edmonds-Woodway 2-0, 2-0.
Stanwood 7, Arlington 0: Stanwood held Arlington scoreless in three separate matches in the Wesco North meet.
Singles-Beutler (S) def. Isreal, 6-3, 6-2; Paianiuk (S) def. Welch, 6-0, 6-0; Seckel (S) def. Issak, 7-5, 6-2; Hansen (S) def. Twitchell, 6-2, 6-3. Doubles-Carlson-Schitt (S) def. Boyce-Heath, 6-0, 6-0; Brokaw-Jones (S) def. Yunker-Bennett, 6-0, 6-0; Praseyta-Josephsen (S) def. Stadin-Backstrom, 6-0, 6-1. Records-Arlington 0-2 in league, 0-2 overall. Stanwood 2-0, 2-0.
Snohomish 6, Lake Stevens 1: Freshman Zach Gordon won his first career match at No. 2 singles in three sets to help lead Snohomish to the Wesco North victory.
Singles-Froman (LS) def. Christensen, 3-6, 6-3, 6-0; Gordon (S) def. Heinonen, 6-2, 5-7, 7-6 (7-4); Jackson (S) def. Ferrucci, 6-4, 6-4; Stocker (S) def. Kottsick, 6-2, 6-2. Doubles-Helms-Perron (S) def. Carbonatto-Kruse, 6-4, 5-7, 6-3; Mitchell-Sahlberg (S) def. Nguyen-Swain, 6-0, 6-1; Markey-Pratt (S) def. Dowd-Moylan, 6-3, 6-3. Records-Lake Stevens 1-1 in league, 1-1 overall. Snohomish 1-0, 1-0.
Oak Harbor 4, Marysville-Pilchuck 3: D.J. Dalire won at No. 4 singles to clinch the Wesco North victory for Oak Harbor.
Singles-Hinkley (OH) def. Parshall, 6-2, 6-4; Manning (OH) def. Belknap, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3; Donnell (OH) def. Weston, 2-6, 6-3, 7-5; Dalire (OH) def. Neyens, 6-2, 6-1. Doubles-McClure-Bezold (MP) def. Wall-Arteago, 6-0, 6-1; Gailo-Wolfgang (MP) def. Ballew-Famelos, 6-1, 6-2; Sumaway-Epilepsia (MP) def. Cox-Lominick, 6-2, 4-6, 6-2. Records-Oak Harbor 1-1 in league, 1-1 overall. Marysville-Pilchuck 0-2, 0-2.
Monroe 5, Mount Vernon 2: Monroe swept the doubles matches to win the Wesco North meet.
Singles-May (MV) def. G. Pickens, 6-1, 6-0; Walsh (M) def. Brown, 6-1, 6-4; Johnson (MV) def. Anderson, 7-5, 6-1; Goodwin (M) def. N. Holden, 6-4, 6-3. Doubles-Babin-Gragert (M) def. Rindal-Fredlund, 6-2, 6-4; M. Hammerquist-Pieroni (M) def. Caldwell-J. Holden, 6-1, 6-0; T. Pickens-E. Hammerquist (M) def. Campbell-VanDyken, 7-6 (7-2), 6-3. Records-Mount Vernon 1-1 in league, 1-1 overall. Monroe 1-1, 1-1.
