Phone: 317-846-6601 Fax: 317-575-4244 Website: www.ihsaa.org
Blake Ress, Commissioner
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June 7, 2008
GIRLS TENNIS PLAYERS
ACHIEVE PERFECT SEASONS
Columbus
North’s Caroline Hedrick and the North Central doubles team of Maggie
Ashby and Alena Perez-Majul
completed perfect campaigns and were crowned IHSAA state champions at Five
Seasons Sports Club on Saturday in Indianapolis.
Hedrick,
just a sophomore, returned to the championship match she lost a year ago and battled
back from a set down to defeat Carmel freshman Courtney Wild in three sets,
3-6, 6-4, 6-1. Hedrick won eight straight tournament
matches to finish 25-0 in 2008. As a freshman last year, she went unbeaten the
entire season before falling in straight sets in the final match. She is the
first Columbus North student to win a tennis state title.
Ashby and
Perez-Majul, both seniors, won their ninth
post-season match with a 1-6, 6-2, 6-4 championship match victory over Elizabeth
Emhardt and Heather Rogers of Park Tudor. Ashby and
Perez-Majul (23-0) became the sixth North Central
doubles team to capture the title. The pair had lost in last year’s
semifinal round to the eventual state champions. Emhardt
and Rogers were fresh off helping Park Tudor capture its fourth consecutive
state championship in team tennis last Saturday.
In Saturday
morning’s semifinals, Hedrick outlasted Munster junior Mary Hill in a
marathon three-setter. The match lasted 3 hours and 25 minutes before Hedrick
took a 6-3, 6-7 (7-4), 6-4 decision. It was Hill’s first loss of her high
school career in 79 matches. Wild also won a three-set match beating Avon
junior Christina Riley, 7-6 (7-3), 2-6, 7-6 (7-5) in a match that went 2 hours
and 42 minutes. It was also the first setback of the year in 24 matches for
Riley.
In the doubles semis, Ashby and
Perez-Majul put away Concord seniors Amy Kline and
Andrea Moore, 6-0, 6-1, while Emhardt and Rogers, both seniors, defeated
West Lafayette juniors Elizabeth Bremer and Madison Leslie, 6-3, 6-1.
Due to
rain, Saturday’s semifinal and championship rounds were moved from North
Central High School to Five Seasons Sports Club.
IHSAA
Individual Tennis State Finals
June
6-7, 2008
Five
Seasons Sports Club, Indianapolis
Singles
Championship Match
Caroline Hedrick, 10, Columbus
North (17-0, 8-0) def. Courtney Wild, 9, Carmel (16-3, 9-1), 3-6,
6-4, 6-1.
Consolation Match
Mary
Hill, 11, Munster (17-0, 10-1) def.
Christina Riley, 11, Avon (15-0,
8-2), 6-1, 7-6
(8-6).
Doubles
Championship Match, Sat, TBA
Maggie
Ashby, 12 | Alena Perez-Majul,
12, North Central (Indianapolis)
(14-0, 9-0) def. Elizabeth Emhardt, 12 | Heather
Rogers, 12, Park Tudor (10-3, 10-1),
1-6, 6-2, 6-4.
Consolation Match, Sat, TBA
Elizabeth
Bremer, 11 | Madison Leslie, 11, West
Lafayette (12-2, 10-1) def. Amy Kline, 12 | Andrea Moore, 12, Concord (12-7, 4-2), 6-2, 2-6, 10-8 (10-8).