Donoho boys follow suit
- Updated: April 16, 2019
Tuesday roundup: Falcons boys tennis team joins girls as sectional champions; Alexandria, Donoho score baseball wins
By East Alabama Sports Today
JACKSONVILLE – The Donoho boys tennis team, like its girls counterpart, won the Class 1A-2A-3A Section 4 championship for the fourth straight year.
The Falcons won three of the six singles divisions and two of the three doubles draws Tuesday at Jacksonville State to finish with 50 points. Sylvania was second with 37 points.
Donoho junior Cooper Montgomery was the top player in the section for the third straight year. He defeated Sylvania’s Jared Higgins, 6-1, 6-1, to win No. 1 Singles. Montgomery teamed with Gray Hanley to claim the No. 1 Doubles title, winning 6-0, 6-1 over Sylvania’s Higgins and Mason Sanders in the finals.
Donoho’s Harrison Han and Hanley and Sylvania’s Wilks also were dual champions.
“I have worked hard this year and it is cool to win sectionals and for both our teams to win sectionals and go to state,” said Han, unbeaten at No. 2 singles this season. “It was very tiring out there. I played like 10 sets out there today and doubles and singles. I had a bye in singles and did not start playing until the afternoon so it all happened back-to-back.”
The Falcons and Sylvania will play in the state tournament April 22-23 in Montgomery.
Class 1A-2A-3A Section 4 Boys
Team scores: Donoho 50, Sylvania 37, Faith Christian 21, Victory Christian 16, Westbrook Christian 11, Pleasant Valley 5.
Individual results
No. 1 Singles: Walker Tomlin (V) d. Trent Findley (PV), 10-3; Jared Higgins (S) d. Forrest McClinton (W), 10-3; Cooper Montgomery (D) d. Tomlin (V), 10-1; Higgins (S) d. Jac Myrick (F), 10-5; Finals – Montgomery (D) d. Higgins (S), 6-1, 6-1.
No. 2 Singles: Joe Wong (V) d. Dakota Parr (PV), 10-3; Kenyon Stover (S) d. Brady Hall (W), 10-3; Harrison Han (D) d. Wong (V), 10-1; Josh Goode (F) d. Stover (S), 11-9; Finals – Han (D) d. Goode (F), 6-1, 7-5.
No. 3 Singles: Gray Hanley (D) d. Reed Fulmer (PV), 10-3; Nathan Le (V) d. Caleb Barden (W), 10-4; Hanley (D) d. Brodie Yarbrough (F), 10-8; Mason Sanders (S) d. Le (V), 10-8; Finals –Hanley (D) d. Sanders (S), 6-1, 6-3.
No. 4 Singles: Hayden Burch (V) d. Joseph Johnson (PV), 10-5; Jordan Johnson (S) d. Evan Miller (F), 10-4; Rhett Rigsby (D) d. Burch (V), 10-4; Jon Cannon Cook (W) d. Johnson (S), 10-7; Finals – Cook (W) d. Rigsby (D), 6-2, 6-0.
No. 5 Singles: Billy Davenport (V) d. Christopher Wimpee (W), 10-4; Jacob Teal (PV) d. Jack Ballard (D), 11-10 (7-4); Drake Justus (S) d. Davenport (V), 11-10 (7-4); Eli Mitchell (F) d. Teal (PV), 10-7; Finals – Mitchell (F) d. Justus (S), 6-1, 6-4.
No. 6 Singles: Luke Person (W) d. Christian Friedman (PV), 10-8; Gavin Randall (F) d. Willam Wilson-Heute (V), 10-7; Clayton Wilks (S) d. Person (W), 10-3; Reese McWhorter (D) d. Randall (F), 10-2; Finals – Wilks (S) d. McWhorter (D), 7-6 (7-1), 6-1.
No. 1 Doubles: Myrick/Mitchell (F) d. Tomlin/Wong (V), 10-8; McClinton/Hall (W) d. Parr/Fulmer (PV), 10-1; Montgomery/Hanley (D) d. Myrick/Mitchell (F), 10-4; Higgins/Sanders (S) d. McClinton/Hall (W), 10-6; Finals – Montgomery/Hanley (D) d. Higgins/Sanders (S), 6-0, 6-1.
No. 2 Doubles: Le/Davenport (V) d. Findley/Teal (PV), 11-9; Goode/Yarbrough (F) d. Barden/Cook (W), 10-4; Han/Rigsby (D) d. Le/Davenport (V), 10-2; Goode/Yarbrough (F) d. Stover/Justus (S), 10-7; Finals – Han/Rigsby (D) d. Goode/Yarbrough (F), 6-4, 6-1.
No. 3 Doubles: Burch/Wilson-Heute (V) d. Wimpee/Person (W), 10-8; Johnson/Johnson (PV) d. Miller/Branden Stacks (F), 11-9; Wilks/Logan McCullough (S) d. Burch/Wilson-Heute (V), 11-9; Ballard/McWhorter (D) d. Johnson/Johnson (PV), 10-5; Finals – Wilks/McCullough (S) d. Ballard/McWhorter (D), 6-3, 6-3.
BASEBALL
Tuesday’s scores
Alexandria 11, Ohatchee 1
Donoho 16, Saks 7
Donoho 16, Saks 7: The Falcons tuned up for their Class 1A playoff opener Friday by pounding 14 hits and pulling away with a pair of five-run innings. Hall Billings drove in five runs, Payne Golden four and Reid Willamon three; Ty Mclean went 4-for-4. The game went back and forth for four innings until the Falcons broke it open with five runs in the fifth. Billings’ bases-loaded walk tied the game 6-6 and two go-ahead runs scored when the Wildcats misplayed Seth Ford’s hard grounder to third. Jaylen Childs’ two-run homer gave Saks a 5-3 lead in the third.
Alexandria 11, Ohatchee 1: Noah Primm, Jacob McCulley, Mitch Welch and Ryan Taylor all homered for the Valley Cubs.
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