Chattanooga Prep Tennis: May 11 - GPS, Soddy Daisy Girls, Ool Boys Win

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Prep Tennis: SD Girls, GPS, Ooltewah Boys Win

SD Girls vs East Hamilton Today For District 5 AAA Title

 

The Ooltewah boys are champions of District 5 AAA, GPS defeated Harpeth Hall to secure second place in D-II AAA Middle/East and Soddy Daisy and East Hamilton will meet today for the District 5-AAA girls title in local prep tennis action.

 

Showdown at Standifer Gap: Today (Wed. May 11) at 4 p.m. East Hamilton girls and Soddy Daisy will meet for the District 5-AAA tennis title … EH (15-0 in dual matches) won the regular season title, while defending district champ Soddy Daisy claimed the individual (singles/doubles) tournament yesterday.

 

The defending champion Trojans have the experience – winning district and region titles a year ago, advancing to the state Final Four and return three of the top five players from a year ago, while the Eagles have shown they have the better depth in dual matches.

 

The winner will play at Cookeville Thursday for the Region 3 championship.

 

This Week:

Today

 District 5-AAA Girls –

Standifer Gap 4 p.m. – Soddy Daisy vs. East Hamilton

 

Thursday

A-AA Girls Region

1 p.m. – Hixson at Collegedale

AAA Region 3 - East Hamilton-Soddy Daisy winner at Cookeville

 

Friday

A-AA Boys Region

1 p.m. at Racquet Club - Boyd Buchanan vs. Hixson

AAA Region 3 - Ooltewah at Cookeville

 

GPS 4, Harpeth Hall 0

The victorious Bruisers went on the road to claim the win and finish second in the D-II AA  Middle/East Region.

Doubles:
#2 Corinne Spann/Ellie Edwards def Margaret Gaw/Katherine Risner 8-3, 
#3 Ali West/Maggie Eslinger def Helen Griffith/ Grace Claybrook 8-4 

Singles:
#2 Jenna Thorstenson (GPS) def. Abbie Keeble 6-1,6-0
#3 Ellie Edwards (GPS)  def. Griffith 6-2,7-5
#6 Corinne Spann (GPS)  def. Kathryn Risner 6-1,6-2

 

State Quarters  D-II AA   HH at St. Benedict

GPS hosts Pope John Paul-Ensworth winner

 

District 5 –AAA Tournament

Boys

Team Champion – Ooltewah (District regular season and tourney champ)

Singles Final – Braden Lype (Ooltewah) def. Jared Elrod (Bradley Central), 6-4, 6-0

Doubles Final: V. Patel-J. Hughes (Cleveland) def. S. Tennant-T. Chipman (Ooltewah), 6-1, 6-4

District 5-AAA

 

Girls

Team Champion – Soddy Daisy

Singles Final – Olivia Crawley (Soddy Daisy) def, Hannah Dattilo (East Hamilton), 7-5, 6-3

Doubles Final: Katelynn Coyner-Shelby Noe (Soddy Daisy) def. M. Gallups-A. Langley (East Hamilton), 7-5, 4-6, 6-4 

 

contact B.B. Branton at william.branton@comcast.net

Edited May 11, 2016 by bbb