Prep Report: Waldron, Triton Central advance to tennis sectional championship match

For Waldron to repeat as sectional champions, the Mohawks will have to defeat a Triton Central squad it has lost to twice this season.

At the Shelbyville Tennis Sectional Thursday, Waldron eliminated Morristown, 5-0, and Triton Central outlasted a pesky Shelbyville team, 3-2, in a match where four of the five matches went three sets.

That sets up today’s sectional championship match between Waldron (13-4) and Triton Central (18-2). The Tigers defeated Waldron, 4-1, in the semifinal round of the Shelby County Tournament on Sept. 14 and two days later in a regular-season match, 3-2.

Waldron had little trouble reaching the sectional final, dropping just four games against Morristown.

At No. 1 singles, Charlie Fischer defeated Dalton McMichael, 6-1, 6-0. And Jack Fischer netted a 6-0, 6-2 win over Eli Graves.

Morristown forfeited the No. 3 singles match.

At No. 1 doubles, Lucas Shaw and Cash Young remained unbeaten this season (12-0) with a 6-0, 6-1 victory over Michael Ballinger and Ruston Kleine.

Matthew Thomas and Jackson Kuhn blanked Gage Frey and Ethan Tryon at No. 2 doubles, 6-0, 6-0.

The only match not to go three sets in the semifinal battle between Triton Central and Shelbyville came at No. 2 singles, where Janssen Capps defeated Kashton Laycock, 6-2, 6-1.

Shelbyville’s Reece Prickett rallied from a set down to defeat Tucker Hutchinson at No. 1 singles, 3-6, 7-6 (4), 6-1.

Triton Central’s Bradyn Robinson topped Kody Sellers at No. 3 singles, 6-3, 0-6, 6-0.

In a battle of highly-successful No. 1 doubles pairings, Shelbyville’s Aiden Smith and Wyatt Armstrong won the final two sets for a 2-6, 6-4, 7-5 victory.

Shelbyville’s Aiden Alton and Jack VanWye won the first set at No. 2 doubles but Triton Central’s Brayden Hoover and Caleb McGuire rallied for a 6-7 (4), 7-5, 6-1 win.

With their match wins, Reece Prickett (11-11) and the doubles team of Smith and Armstrong (19-2) advance into the state singles and doubles tournament which starts next week.

In other prep events Thursday:

Girls soccer

Greenwood 1, Shelbyville 0

At Shelbyville, Lillian Rollings’ first-half goal stood up to get the Woodmen the victory.

With the win, Greenwood improved to 9-5-1.

Shelbyville fell to 5-9-1 and will travel to Yorktown (7-6-2) Saturday.

Volleyball

Southwestern def. Brown County, 25-16, 15-25, 25-20, 25-18

At Southwestern, Tanna Tatlock had 27 kills and 31 digs to lead the Spartans to the victory.

Ruby Garner finished with 10 kills, three service aces and 25 digs for Southwestern (14-12).

Aubree Denton led Brown County (5-11) with nine kills, two service aces and 17 digs.

Mt. Vernon def. Shelbyville, 25-10, 25-7, 25-20

At Shelbyville, Olivia Johnson, Jaycee Jones and Alivia Morgan each had eight kills to lead the Marauders to the Hoosier Heritage Conference win at Garrett Gymnasium.

Avery Delello had a team-high 18 digs and setter Ava Whitmore finished with 34 assists for Mt. Vernon (17-6, 4-2 HHC).

The Golden Bears dropped to 5-18 (0-6 HHC).

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