by Scott Sacry, Sports Editor
Hamilton hosted the Western A Divisional Tennis Tournament on Tuesday, May 13 through Thursday, May 15. The tournament was scheduled for two days, but rainy conditions forced play to leak into Thursday.
The Stevensville boys won the Boys Divisional Team Championship, and the Hamilton girls won the Girls Divisional Team Championship. The top four finishers in girls and boys singles, and girls and boys doubles, moved on to the Class A State tournament in Billings on May 22-23.
Stevensville
The Stevensville boys took 1st place, while the Stevensville girls took 4th. Angus Trangmoe won the boys singles title by defeating Hamilton’s Carden Nelson 6-0, 6-0 in the championship match. Stevensville’s Jake Gavlak and Silas Seibert won the boys doubles title by defeating Corvallis’s Emmett Allsop and Brannon Fehr 6-2, 7-5 in the championship match. Stevensville’s Riccardo Stanzi took 4th place in boys singles.
The Stevensville boys tennis team won the Boys Western A Divisional Championship in Hamilton on Thursday, May 15. Photo by Wes Wells.
Hamilton
The Hamilton girls took 1st place, while the Hamilton boys took 2nd. The girls singles championship match was a rematch of last year’s divisional final between Hamilton’s top two players, Tallulah Pinjuv and Ciara Hanley. Hanley won last year, but this year Pinjuv was victorious, winning 6-4, 6-2. Hamilton’s Carden Nelson took 2nd in boys singles, Hamilton’s boys doubles team of Finn Dufresne and Jason Chaplin took 3rd, and Hamilton’s girls doubles team of Charlie Holmes and Tessa Lewanski took 4th.
The Hamilton girls tennis team won the Girls Western A Divisional Championship on Thursday, May 15 in Hamilton. Photo courtesy of Kelly Hanley.
Corvallis
The Corvallis girls took 2nd place, while the Corvallis boys took 4th. Corvallis’s boys doubles team of Emmett Allsop and Brannon Fehr took 2nd, Corvallis’s girls doubles team of Brooke Child and Clara Taracido took 2nd, and the Corvallis girls singles players Ava Wilcox and Sophie Jessop took 3rd and 4th, respectively.