SHS TENNIS: Doubles teams do double time

Published 2:37 pm Monday, September 20, 2010

Sumner High’s boys tennis team suffered a 3-2 South Puget Sound League 2A loss to Fife Friday, their second loss to the Trojans in the week.

In singles, Jacob Heuett won 6-3, 6-1, while the doubles team of Charlie Oxborrow and Jeff Bidiniy picked up the doubles victory 6-0, 6-2.

Sumner beat Clover Park 5-0 in league play Sept. 13.

In singles, Grant Fulton won 6-1, 6-2 and Trey Brooks won by default.

In doubles, Will Mortell and Hunter Bleha won 7-5, 6-3. Heuett and Scott Brown teamed for a 6-0, 6-1 victory and Delbert and Charlie Oxborrow also picked up a default victory.

The Spartans suffered their first league loss of the season, 3-2 to Fife, Sept. 14

Sumner picked up its pair of victories in doubles play. In the No. 2 position, Scott Brown and John Fordice sandwich winning sets, 6-3 and 6-4, around a 7-5 loss, while No. 3 doubles Delbert Oxborrow and Bidiniy won in straight sets 6-4, 6-3.

The Spartans were scheduled to host Franklin Pierce Monday, results came too late to be published here but can be found at www.blscmg-northwest2.go-vip.net/courierherald. The team is at Franklin Pierce today, Wednesday, and at Eatonville Friday. Match time for all three events is 3:30 p.m.