McCallie Netters Down Chattanooga Christian In Middle School Tennis Action

  • Wednesday, September 25, 2024
Pictured from Left to Right: Brantley Lockhart, Coach Grace Carruthers and Wylie Shumate of the McCallie Middle School tennis team.
Pictured from Left to Right: Brantley Lockhart, Coach Grace Carruthers and Wylie Shumate of the McCallie Middle School tennis team.
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Playing at Chattanooga Christian School, Sam Harris, Liam Tabibiazar, Calvin Caputo and Ayan Chakraborty gave McCallie a 4-2 lead after singles, and then the Blue Tornado swept all 3 doubles to defeat the CCS Chargers 7-2 in middle school tennis.  Clinching the match at number 3 doubles was Rhys Coleman and Ayan Chakraborty by an 8-5 score. 

Sam Harris and Liam Tabibiazar at number 1 doubles rallied from an 8-7 deficit to win in a tie-breaker at 9-8 (1), and the number 2 doubles team of Wylie Shumate and Brantley Lockhart found themselves down 5-1 and 7-4 before coming back to win 9-7.  With the win McCallie became the ISC regular season champion and improved their season record to 8-1.

The McCallie B team defeated the CCS B team 9-0.  Winners in singles and doubles were Vikranth Basava, AJ Gupta, Mason Rudder, Zoan von Schultz and Porter Oshaughnessy.  Rhys Coleman in singles and Calvin Caputo in doubles were also victorious.

The individual results of the match were as follows:

McCallie 7  Chattanooga Christian School 2

Singles:

  1. Sam Harris (M) defeated Ollie Lubbers (CCS) 8-4

  2. Wylie Shumate (M) lost to Sam Stoddard (CCS) 9-7

  3. Liam Tabibiazar (M) defeated Zeke Wharton (CCS) 8-3

  4.  Calvin Caputo (M) defeated James Osborn (CCS) 8-3

  5. Brantley Lockhart (M) lost to Charlie Witcher (CCS) 9-8 (7)

  6. Ayan Chakraborty (M) defeated Garrett Dowling (CCS) 8-2

Doubles:

  1. Sam Harris-Liam Tabibiazar (M) defeated Lubbers-Stoddard (CCS) 9-8 (1)

  2. Wylie Shumate-Brantley Lockhart (M) defeated Wharton-Osborn (CCS) 9-7

  3. Rhys Coleman-Ayan Chakaraborty (M) defeated Witcher-Dowling (CCS) 8-5

McCallie B Team 9  CCS B Team 0

Singles:

  1. Rhys Coleman (M) defeated Samuel Mizutani (CCS) 6-1

  2. Vikranth Basava (M) defeated Sammy Tolson (CCS) 6-2

  3. AJ Gupta (M) defeated Cole Eriksen (CCS) 6-3

  4.  Mason Rudder (M) defeated Cliff Algea (CCS) 6-0

  5.  Zoan von Schultz (M) defeated Joseph Cunningham (CCS) 6-1

  6.  Porter O'shaughnessy (M) defeated Ron Thomas (CCS) 6-0

Doubles:

  1. Calvin Caputo-AJ Gupta (M) defeated Mizutani-Tolson (CCS) 6-3

  2. Mason Rudder-Zoan von Schultz (M) defeated Eriksen-Algea (CCS) 6-3

  3. Vikranth Basava-Porter O’shaughnessy (M) defeated Cunningham-Thomas (CCS) 6-3

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