NCHSAA State 3-A Girl’s Tennis Championships – 1st Day

Mideast Regional Dominates Doubles In NCHSAA 3-A Women’s Tennis

BURLINGTON — The teams out of the Mideast Regional had a record showing on Friday in the North Carolina High School Athletic Association state 3-A women’s tennis championships at the Burlington Tennis Center.

The top three teams out of that one regional all advanced to Saturday’s semifinals, with the other survivor out of the East.

The 3-A doubles state final a year ago featured two Cardinal Gibbons teams, with Devin Knors and Lizzie Galush defeating teammates Natalie Freeman and Summer Jacobs, and the possibility exists again for an all-Gibbons final although Galush is playing in the singles draw. Devin Knors and Jenna Knors were the number-one duo from the Mideast and will face Rocky Mount’s Chandler Brice and Eliza Fike in one semifinal.

Freeman and Jacobs, who were second to the Knors team in the regional, takes on the Fayetteville Terry Sanford team of Huda McGraw and Emma Edge on Saturday morning in the other semi. The Terry Sanford pair ousted the Midwest champions from Ledford, Taylor Freeman and Elizabeth Stroup, in the quarterfinals.

Sarah Jiang of Concord Cox Mill, the singles runner-up for the past two years, earned her way into the semis with a pair of easy wins and will face Asheville’s Adrienne Hayes in the next round. Galush of Gibbons battles Wilson Hunt’s Taylor Love in the other semifinal.

Matches start at 9 am on Saturday.

NORTH CAROLINA HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION
STATE 3-A WOMEN’S TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS
Burlington Tennis Center

FRIDAY’S RESULTS
Singles—First Round
Taylor Love (Wilson Hunt) def. Julianne Hall (Cameron Union Pines) 6-2, 6-0; Taylor Fredrickson (Morganton Patton) def. Imani Fountain (Concord Cox Mill) 2-6, 6-4, 6-1; Lizzie Galush (Raleigh Cardinal Gibbons) def. Carmen Jordan (Hampstead Topsail) 6-2, 6-2; Savannah Smith (West Henderson) def. Sarah Parker (Waxhaw Cuthbertson) 7-6(4), 0-6, 6-4; Adrienne Haynes (Asheville) def. Rachel Zubrinsky (Waxhaw Marvin Ridge) 6-1, 6-1; Victoria Dixon (Cleveland) def. Mary Beth Jackson (Cameron Union Pines) 6-1, 7-6(5); Sarah Jiang (Concord Cox Mill) def. Lauren Scism (Shelby Crest) 6-1, 6-1; Ashton Walker (Pikeville Charles B. Aycock) def. Kate Freed (Raleigh Cardinal Gibbons) 6-3, 6-0.

Singles—Quarterfinals
Love (Wilson Hunt) def. Frederickson (Morganton Patton) 6-2, 6-0; Galush (Cardinal Gibbons) def. Smith (West Henderson) 6-2, 6-1; Hayes (Asheville) def. Dixon (Cleveland) 6-0, 6-2; Jiang (Cox Mill) def. Walker (Aycock) 6-0, 6-1.

Singles—Semifinals: Saturday at 9 am
Taylor Love (Wilson Hunt) vs. Lizzie Galush (Cardinal Gibbons)
Adrienne Hayes (Asheville) vs. Sarah Jiang (Cox Mill)

Doubles—First Round
Chandler Brice-Eliza Fike (Rocky Mount) def. Abby Maner-Kristen Marshall (Burlington Williams) 7-5, 6-2; Meredith Emery-Hannah Scott (Waxhaw Marvin Ridge) def. Mary Hamrick-Rosemary Mosher (Asheville) 2-6, 7-5, 6-1; Devin Knors-Jenna Knors (Raleigh Cardinal Gibbons) def. Nhi Pham-Caroline Provost (Swansboro) 6-0, 6-0; Madeline Finley-Julia Kessel (Hickory) def. Carly Landgraf-Shannon Farley (Waxhaw Marvin Ridge) 6-4, 7-5; Sena Mucklow-Kristie Kim (Asheville) def. Laura Isenhour-Sara Lentz (China Grove Jesse Carson) 6-3, 6-2; Natalie Freeman-Summer Jacobs (Raleigh Cardinal Gibbons) def. Liz Short-Elery Williams (Wilson Fike) 6-2, 6-2; Taylor Freeman-Elizabeth Stroup (Thomasville Ledford) def. Hannah Hill-Dakota Tittle (East Henderson)
6-0, 6-2; Huda McGraw-Emma Edge (Fayetteville Terry Sanford) def. Cassidy Coerver-Casey Belom (Pikeville Charles B. Aycock) 6-2, 6-0.

Doubles—Quarterfinals
Brice-Fike (Rocky Mount) def. Emery-Scott (Marvin Ridge) 6-3, 6-2; Knors-Knors (Cardinal Gibbons) def. Finley-Kessell (Hickory) 6-2, 6-0; Freeman-Jacobs (Cardinal Gibbons) def. Kim-Mucklow (Asheville) 6-3, 6-3; McGraw-Edge (Terry Sanford) def. Freeman-Stroup (Ledford) 7-5, 6-2.

Doubles—Semifinals: Saturday, 9 am
Chandler Brice-Eliza Fike (Rocky Mount) vs. Devin Knors-Jenna Knors (Raleigh Cardinal Gibbons)
Natalie Freeman-Summer Jacobs (Raleigh Cardinal Gibbons) vs. Huda McGraw-Emma Edge (Fayetteville Terry Sanford)