Mt. Vernon completed back-to-back undefeated Hoosier Heritage Conference boys’ tennis championships on Monday evening with a 4-1 victory over Delta on the Marauder courts.
Delta (12-6 overall, 5-2 HHC) challenged the 29th-ranked Marauders but was unable to pull out two close doubles matches.
At No. 1 doubles, the teams were tied 4-4 in both sets but Mt. Vernon pulled away late to win 7-5, 6-4.
At No. 2 doubles, Delta won the opening set 6-2. The second set was tied at 5-5, but again Mt. Vernon came up big and won the match 2-6, 7-5, 6-3.
Delta got its point at No. 1 singles where Kody Vest won 6-1, 6-2 over Carter Harrington, who was subbing in for an injured Manny Downs.
Mt. Vernon won the No. 2 and No. 3 singles matches by identical scores of 6-3, 6-2.
The final conference standings:
7-0 Mt. Vernon
6-1 New Palestine
5-2 Delta
4-3 Greenfield-Central
3-4 New Castle
2-5 Pendleton Heights
1-6 Yorktown
0-7 Shelbyville
In the JV match, Delta gained an 8-6 victory on the strength of seven doubles victories. This completed an undefeated conference season for the JV Eagles, who finished their season with a 15-1 overall record. Delta’s middle school team recently won the conference title as well.
Individual records for our JV players:
Kam Swoboda 4-4 varsity 8-5 JV
Kaden Crist 2-2 varsity 15-4 JV
John Atkinson 1-1 varsity 16-5 JV
Colten Cruea 1-0 varsity 17-8 JV
James Root 1-1 varsity 14-6 JV
Roman Ashcraft 19-6 JV
Ayden Mitchell 20-5 JV
Bryce Carmichael 21-5 JV
Graham Sieber 20-4 JV
Alexander Smith 18-2 JV
Jacob Williams 15-6 JV
Daniel Tokar 19-2 JV
Andrew Alexander 11-13 JV
Grant Durkovich 8-7 JV
Maddox Weddle 16-5 JV
Rylan Oliver 13-9 JV
Denys Krushenytskyi 13-8 JV
Jason Ogle 14-4 JV
Owen Zacek 13-6 JV
Jensen Moody 9-9 JV
Reid Cardemon 12-8 JV
Kiptyn Berry 14-7 JV
Hunter Reed 2-7 JV
Next up for the Eagles will be a makeup match against Western for the championship of the Delta Invitational. This match will be 5:15 p.m. today (Tuesday) at Elwood HS courts. Western is 15-1, with its only loss to Culver Academies.
The Delta Sectional then begins Wednesday when the Eagles face Muncie Central in the opening round at 4:45 p.m.
Complete Results
DELTA 1 MOUNT VERNON 4
Varsity Singles
- Kody Vest won 6-1, 6-2
- Owen Cupp lost 3-6, 2-6
- Luke Atkinson lost 3-6, 2-6
Varsity Doubles
- Ben Miller/Brady Williams lost 5-7, 4-6
- Tyce Dishman/Aaron Elliott lost 6-2, 5-7, 3-6
JV Singles
- Colten Cruea lost 4-8
- Kam Swoboda lost 4-8
- James Root lost 5-8
- Roman Ashcraft lost 5-8
- Andrew Alexander won 8-4
- Hunter Reed lost 0-8
JV Doubles
- John Atkinson/Kaden Crist won 8-3
- Bryce Carmichael/Ayden Mitchell won 8-2
- Akex Smith/Graham Sieber won 8-2
- Daniel Tokar/Denys Krushenytskyi won 8-2
- Jacob Williams/Maddox Weddle won 8-3
- Jason Ogle/Reid Cardemon won 8-7 (2)
- Rylan Oliver/Owen Zacek won 8-1
- Kiptyn Berry/Grant Durkovich lost 6-8