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Jason Schmitt is the editor of MIPrepZone.com, the high school sports website for The Oakland Press. He has served as the sports editor for a number of newspapers, including the Daily Tribune in Royal Oak and the Macomb Daily in Mount Clemens. In his time in the industry, he has covered every high school sport and has served a a beat writer for boys and girls soccer, boys and girls tennis, hockey, wrestling, bowling and cross country.

Friday, June 21, 2013

County's best getting set for Midwest Closed

Within three weeks of the high school season finishing up, a slew of the county's best girls (and boys) will be competing in their second big USTA tournament this weekend in Indianapolis.
Area players garnered some solid seeds for the tournament, which opens up tomorrow morning. Below are the Oakland County players competing (in seeded, then alphabetical order) in the Girls and Boys 18- and 16-singles draws:

Girls 18
#13 Lexi Baylis (Clarkston) - won first match 6-0, 7-5
#21 Alex Najarian (Cranbrook) - won first match 6-1, 6-4
#31 Mollie Fox (Bloomfield Hills) - won first match 6-4, 6-1
Alex D'Ascenzo (Jewish Academy) - won first match 6-1, 6-0
Kerry Hu (Bloomfield Hills) - won first match 6-0, 6-4
Tiffany Huber (of West Bloomfield) - lost first match 1-6, 0-6
Christina Jordan (of West Bloomfield) - won first match 6-4, 3-6, 6-4
Dana Olsen (Clarkston) - lost first match 0-6, 0-6
Labina Petrovska (Seaholm) - lost first match 0-6, 1-6

Girls 16
#3 Dominique Vasile (of Oakland Twp.) - won first match 6-1, 6-2
#4 Marybeth Hurley (of Novi) - won first match 6-1, 6-1
#18 Sophia Abelson (of West Bloomfield) - won first match 6-1, 6-1
#23 Anna Short (Cranbrook) - won first match 6-2, 6-1
Eliza Brown (Jewish Academy) - won first match 6-0, 6-2
Hannah Cimpeanu (of West Bloomfield) - lost first match 2-6, 5-7
Halle Hyman (Adams) - won first match 6-1, 6-2
Claire Markley (Seaholm) - lost first match 6-7 (1), 1-6
Allison Motea (Cranbrook) - won first match 6-3, 6-2
Haley Mullins (Country Day) - lost first match 1-6, 6-3, 1-6
Marina Selenica (Country Day) -  won first match 6-1, 6-0
Isabella Spindler (Clarkston) - lost first match 3-6, 1-6
Alex Whall (Clarkston) - lost first match 0-6, 0-6

Boys 18
#2 Jack Murray (of Beverly Hills/Roeper) - won first match 6-0, 6-1
#15 Max Fliegner (Country Day) - won first match 6-1, 6-2
#20 Brett Forman (Troy) - won first match 6-1, 6-0
#24 Michael Dube' (Catholic Central) - won first match 6-1, 6-2
Alex Kim (Lakeland) - won first match 7-6 (10), 6-4
Tucker Massie (of Bloomfield Hills) - lost first match 1-6, 0-6
Rishi Patel (Country Day) - lost first match 1-6, 3-6
Gunnar Peery (Brother Rice) - won first match 6-7 (3), 6-3, 7-5
Max Shanbrom (Country Day) - lost first match 2-6, 5-7
Richard Zhang (Troy Athens) -  won first match 6-1, 6-2

Boys 16
#3 Connor Johnston (from Novi-Northville HS) - won first match 6-0, 6-1
#5 Tim Wang (Novi) - won first match 6-1, 6-1
#17 Kevin Rothstein (West Bloomfield) - won first match 6-1, 6-1
Justin Hyman (Adams) - won first match 6-1, 6-0
Noah Karoub (Country Day) - lost first match 3-6, 1-6
Koushik Kondapi (Novi) - lost first match 4-6, 2-6
Andre Liu (Novi) - lost first match 6-3, 5-7, 1-6
Chase Peery (Brother Rice) - lost first match 2-6, 2-6
Vinai Reddy (Troy) - lost to Sable in first match 2-6, 6-2, 3-6
Marc Sable (Cranbrook) - beat Reddy in first match 6-2, 2-6, 6-3

If you want to follow the action over the next several days, CLICK HERE, scroll down to the Draws tab and then when you see the "Choose and Event," select your division. Good luck players.

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