(LEFT) Westfield’s No. 3 singles Ajay Prasanna won his match for the Shamrocks during their regional semifinal competition with Delta Tuesday. (RIGHT) The Noblesville doubles team of Dustin Turpin (left) and Parker Stallings won the individual sectional, beating Frankton 6-2, 6-0. (Richie Hall)
Turpin & Stallings claim individual sectional
The REPORTER
The Carmel boys tennis team advanced to its own regional championship Tuesday with a semifinal win over Brebeuf Jesuit.
The No. 1-ranked Greyhounds beat the No. 3 Braves 4-1 at the Todd Witsken Tennis Center, reversing the result of last year’s regional encounter between the two teams. Carmel will host the championship this afternoon, taking on Parke Heritage at 5:15 p.m.
The ‘Hounds started with a sweep of the two doubles matches. No. 1 David Liu and Jude Sangar won their match 6-2, 6-2, while No. 2 Rajeev Singh and Drew Hall were victorious 6-1, 6-3. No. 1 singles Wes Worobel won his match 7-6, 6-2.
The other two singles matches were hard-fought three setters. No. 2 Andrew Kim outlasted Owen Birge 6-3, 4-6, 7-5 for Carmel’s fourth point, while the Braves’ Harry Stutler got past Vishal Shankar in three sets. Stutler won the first set 6-4, then Shankar won the second set 6-4. With the team result already decided, they played a third-set super tiebreak, with Stutler winning 10-7.
Parke Heritage advanced to the final by beating Crawfordsville 3-2 in the other semifinal.
Royals sweep Centerville
Hamilton Southeastern earned a spot in the Mt. Vernon regional championship with a 5-0 victory over Centerville on Tuesday.
The No. 9-ranked Royals won all five matches in straight sets. Southeastern will play Greenfield-Central in today’s championship, which begins at 5 p.m.
Rocks fall to Delta
Westfield was edged out by Delta 3-2 Tuesday in the semifinals of the Noblesville regional.
The No. 11 Shamrocks won the first two matches, with No. 3 singles Ajay Prasanna getting a 6-4, 6-1 victory and No. 2 singles Luke Stoecker winning his match 6-4, 6-0. The No. 13 Eagles got their first point by when No. 1 doubles Tyce Dishman and Aaron Elliott beat Westfield’s Leyton Steill and Payton Paramoure 6-4, 7-6 (6).
The No. 2 doubles match between the Rocks’ Charlie Juleen and Ben Soukup and Delta’s Brandon Grubbs and Brady Williams was a back-and-forth bout, with both teams breaking each other’s serve multiple times in the third set. The Eagles eventually won 7-5, 3-6, 7-6 (4) to tie the match. That left No. 1 singles, where Delta’s Jackson Darby outlasted Westfield’s Parker Paramoure 4-6, 6-2, 6-4 to clinch the meet.
“We knew going into it, it was going to be a tough match and it certainly was,” said Westfield coach Tony Peters. “Up and down, all three singles, both doubles, it was fantastic tennis. I think everybody played some of their best tennis of the year, and so that was exciting.”
The Shamrocks were coming off their first-ever sectional championship in school history, which took place last week at Noblesville.
“Very proud of our team,” said Peters. “We accomplished somethings we never have and I do think that this is one of our better matches.”
Millers win doubles sectional
The Noblesville doubles team of Dustin Turpin and Parker Stallings won the individual doubles sectional on Tuesday at the Millers’ tennis center.
Turpin and Stallings defeated Frankton’s Eli Birch and Braxton Mort 6-2, 6-0. The Millers team will play in the IHSAA regional, which takes place Oct. 18 at North Central.
