Greencastle boys' tennis team win sectional round

Thursday, October 2, 2014

The first IHSAA sectional tennis tournament win of the season came from the red-hot Tiger Cub team who performed at Northview n Wednesday. Greencastle (9-2) beat Owen Valley 4-1 in an emotional rematch of last year's sectional.

The Double's team cleaned up nicely with both sets picking up quick wins. Adam Gerald and Nathan Gobert simply dominated at the No. 2 doubles position as did Jake Mangrum and Kaleb Fleming.

"We just wanted to play well together," Fleming said. "We knew they were a pretty good team and they won sectional last year. So it was nice knocking them out."

Christian Ritchey took a loss to a tough No. 1 singles opponent in Kendal Norman who hasn't lost a match all year.

The Tiger Cubs team didn't settle and Jed Fajt took it to his opponent winning in two sets.

Then the most emotional and longest match of the night finally concluded with Jason Ummel showing supreme endurance nd and knocking out Owen Vallee's Eric Kong after a 7-6 (2) concluded.

Ummel said he plays and wins matches like that for his teammates.

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