Newport, Interlake, Bellevue all with multiple state entries | Golf and Tennis State Tournaments
Published 12:54 pm Monday, May 23, 2011
The Knights qualified a trio of golfers to the state tournament on the girls side in Isabel Chien, Nicole Lomax and Jessica Kent while Maddie Dietz will be the first alternate. That tournament takes place on May 24 and 25 at Downriver Golf Course in Spokane.
Chien was the Medalist at the 4A KingCo championship tournament, shooting a two-day total of 155 to beat out Redmond’s Kelly Kennewick by a single stroke. Lomax finished in fifth and Kent sixth at the KingCo finals to earn their spots in the state field.
Newport will be represented on the boys’ side by Kevin Chien, who will be in action at Creek at Qualchan Golf Course in Spokane also on May 24 and 25. Chien qualified with in 12th place at the KingCo match, shooting a 153 over two rounds.
In 3A, Bellevue’s Arden Phillips will be at Liberty Lake Golf Course in Spokane while Connor Hood will take on MeadowWood golf course in the 3A boys golf state championships, also on May 24 and 25.
Interlake’s Aleana Groenhout (pictured below) will be at Lake Spanaway Golf Course for her first round of the 2A state tournament and Kristen Lawler, Carolyn Langdon and Mackenzie Findlay will represent Bellevue Christian in the 1A state tournament, which is set to begin at The Home Course in DuPont.
Angela Chen (below) and Amy Vo (top) of Newport are both in the 4A girls state tennis championship bracket after meeting in the finals of the district tournament, which Chen won to take the top seed to state.
Chen will meet Lauren Thomquist of Auburn in her first match while Vo will square off against Jelena Vidovic of Union. The 4A tennis tournament takes place on May 27 and 28 at Vancouver Tennis Center.
The Knights won the girls team title in 4A tennis last season and hope Chen or Vo will add an individual title to their mantle in 2011.
Alec Tsutsumoto and Andrew Choi will also be in Vancouver representing the Knights and will face Spencer Herron and Keenan Dolan of Bellarmine Prep in their first match.
Sammamish’s duo of Benny Tran and Andrew Nguyen (below, photo credit: Chad Coleman Bellevue Reporter) will meet the Wilson duo of Peter Koessler and Josiah Thomas for a spot in the quarterfinals.
The Bellevue Wolverines will send two to the Tri-Cities for the 3A tennis tournament as London Lee, who beat-out teammate Sabrian Tu for the final spot from the District 2 tournament, and Zach Kosanke (below, photo credit: Chad Coleman, Bellevue Reporter) will both look to bring a state title back to Wolverine Way.
Lee opens against Alise McCoy of Bonney Lake while Kosanke will duel with Anthony Litchfield of Capital High School.
Interlake has the deepest field to state from any of the area schools, with eight total headed to the Nordstrom Tennis Center on the campus of the University of Washington for the 2A state finals.
Chelsea Bucklin and Amy Yasutake (below, in black) begin the doubles tournament against Alyssa Dorr and Bryce Combs of East Valley of Spokane and the Saints have a trio of opportunities in the singles bracket as well.
Isabelle Long (above, front) will see Haily Larson of Prosser in her opener while Alysha Dhami (above, in white) meets Melissa Vollmur from Pullman High School. The third qualifier for the Saints is Maggie Locke, who will get acquainted with Abigail Pellett of Elensburg.
Dhami and Locke cannot meet until the semi-finals, while Long is on the other side of the bracket from the two and would only meet a teammate in the winners bracket if both reached the state title match on May 28.
Kirk Morrison and Joe Motto are in the doubles bracket for the Saints as well and will face Nishant Dwivedi and Hyun Kyoo Han from Pullman in the first round. Luet Le rounds out the Saints who will be in attendance, playing Michael Bosnar from Ephrata in his opening round match.
