Reeths-Puffer won its first ever GMAA championship in boys tennis
Saturday, taking the top spot in four of the eight flights. The Rockets
scored 21 points, with Whitehall earning 17 points to take second.
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played in the finals in all eight flights, with four runners-up joining
the four flight champions. The Rockets' top three doubles pairs - Cade
Paugh/Holden Earnest, Trent VanDam/Leo Kretschmar and Jackson
Baldus/Adam Schrumpf - all won their championships, and Adam Miller
added a title at No. 4 singles.
Two doubles finals pitted
Reeths-Puffer and Whitehall pairs against one another. At No. 2 doubles,
VanDam/Kretschmar edged Whitehall's Jon
Hall/Myles Welch in an excellent match, 7-6(6), 2-6, 10-8. Whitehall's
Elijah Roberge/Evan
Thomas were runners-up to Baldus/Schrumpf at No. 3 doubles, with a 7-5,
6-1 final.
Paugh/Earnest's No. 1 doubles title match was
one of the best of the day, as they fought back from a first-set defeat
to edge Carter Mieler/Logan Stack of North Muskegon, 4-6, 6-2, 10-8.
Miller's No. 4 singles title was a bit easier to win, as he dispatched all three of his opponents in straight sets.
Rocket
runners-up were their top three singles players - Ethan Frang, Quinn
Alderink and Cory Judd - and No. 4 doubles pair Erik Trulsen/Preston
Singleton.
Evan Schuitema provided the Vikings' lone flight
championship, defeating Judd in the No. 3 singles final by a 6-1, 6-0
score. Schuitema was dominant all day, only surrendering one game apiece
in the three matches he played.
William Burger, Brady Tate
and Ryne Nicholas each won a pair of matches for the Vikings in singles
play to help propel them to second place in the team standings. Patrick
Cole/Ian Sampson and Adam Sikkenga/Remington Whelpley also won a pair of
matches each in the doubles flights.
