Friday’s championship match at the Bluffton tennis sectional will feature what always figured to be the top two teams in the five-team field – Norwell and Adams Central.
The Jets wrapped up their spot in the championship with a 4-1 defeat of South Adams, dropping only the No. 2 singles match.
Ava Kinsey’s junior season came to an end with a 7-5, 6-1 win for the Stars, leaving her with a 12-5 record. Kinsey will likely be the new No. 1 next year after Chloe Summersett graduates in a few weeks. Summersett finished her senior season with a 9-9 record.
Kinsey’s win was especially impressive considering the 6-1, 6-1 loss she suffered to Melanie Bertsch in Berne in April.
Each team boasted four seniors in the seven-man lineup.
Hillary Tobias, AC’s No. 1, had little trouble with Summersett with a very similar scoreline to the meeting earlier in the season.
Macy McClure needed a long, third-set tiebreak to dispatch Abby Claghorn, winning 14-12.
The two Jet wins in doubles play came expectedly in straight sets.
Along with expecting a tough victory for Hillary Tobias at No. 1 singles against Norwell Friday, the Jets will rest their sectional title hopes on a pair of victories at doubles, where the two AC teams have swapped places since they played Norwell back in mid-April.
A win by Tobias Friday would continue her season, regardless of whether or not the Jets win as a team.
Play will begin Friday at 4:30 p.m.
Adams Central 4 South Adams 1
No. 1-Hillary Tobias (AC) d. Chloe Summersett, 6-1, 6-2
No. 2-Ava Kinsey (SA) d. Melanie Bertsch, 7-5, 6-1
No. 3-Macy McClure (AC) d. Abby Claghorn, 7-5, 4-6, 7-6 (14-12)
No. 1-Anna Leyse/Alexa Brotherton (AC) d. Grace Barkley/Sam Weigel, 6-1, 6-3
No. 2-Alaina Bertsch/Alayna McCullough (AC) d. Ayla Loshe/Malina Mawhorr, 6-1, 6-2
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