Storm vs. Storm: Summit rolls
Published 12:00 am Sunday, May 17, 2015
- Ryan Brennecke / The BulletinSummit’s Chandler Oliveira returns a shot against Carter Quigley on Saturday in Sunriver. Oliveira lost to Quigley in the finals.
SUNRIVER — This weekend featured some of the best tennis played by the Summit boys all season. And it all came at the right time on the schedule.
Carter Quigley defeated teammate Chandler Oliveira 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 in the singles championship, the tandem of Logan Hausler/Daniel Pino defeated teammates Thomas Wimberly/Hudson Mickel 6-3, 6-4 in the doubles final, and the Storm finished with a district-record 56 team points Saturday at the Class 5A Special District 1 tennis championships.
“We were hoping for six (state qualifiers),” said Summit coach Josh Cordell, whose team accomplished that feat when three singles players and three doubles teams advanced to the semifinals on Friday. “That was our early goal. To get it was pretty awesome. … It was all we were hoping for.”
Josh Maitre and Peter Rutherford defeated Bend’s Zach Hite and Aaron Banquer-Glenn in the doubles third-place match for Summit, which tied for the Class 5A state team title last season. The Storm’s Cole Younger fell to Hood River Valley’s Scott Zeigner in straight sets, 6-0, 6-0, of the singles third-place match, but by reaching the semifinal round he gave Summit six state qualifiers for next week’s state tournament, where the Storm will shoot for their fourth outright team state championship in the last seven years.
“The boys are really excited,” Cordell said. “They have been looking forward to state since last state tournament. We’ve made everything revolve around those goals. We knew that if we could be playing our best tennis at this point we could be in really good shape, and we think we are.”
Bend finished second in the seven-team standings with 22 points, and Mountain View — highlighted by the doubles team of Adi Wolfenden and Austin Pfiefer, who went on to win the consolation bracket 6-3, 6-2 — was fifth with eight points.