2016 State Champions!!

2016 State Champions!!
2016 STATE CHAMPIONS!

Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Lone Peaks Boys Finish as Region 4 Champs, Take 3rd @ State!

The Lone Peak Boys Tennis season finished this past week after another successful season. Having gone undefeated for the first half of the season, the Knights matched that by going undefeated for the second half of the season, with the highlight a 4-1 non-Region match win over 5A power Bingham in late April. The Knights finished with a 14-0 mark and prepared for the Region tournament on May 6th and 7th. At the Region Tournament Lone Peak swept the singles competition as Brocton Andrus, Brigham Andrus and Micah Heimuli won championships and set themselves up as #1 seeds for the State tournament. Both doubles teams, Bryan Gricius & Niles Cochran and Dallin Carrier & Josh Bearss clawed their way through tough matches over the two days, earning 2nd place and #2 seeds at State.
At the State tournament on May 14th and 16th, the Knights stayed focused as all 5 positions advanced with 1stround wins. In the 2nd round, the 1st doubles team of Gricius/Cochran ran into a tough Viewmont doubles team and lost while all of the singles players and 2nd doubles advanced to Saturdays semifinals.
In the semifinals, Brocton Andrus at 1st singles and Micah Heimuli at 3rd singles played well and advanced in straight sets to the finals. Brig Andrus at 2nd singles played part of his match outdoors and then indoors as the elements took over. Brig put up a valiant fight before losing 6-3 in the 3rd set. The 2nd doubles team of Carrier & Bearss also had their 3rd set moved indoors. Their rollercoaster match which went back and forth finally went to a 3rd set tiebreaker, with Lone Peak on the short end and taking the loss in what was the match of the tournament.
In the finals, Brocton Andrus was overpowered by 3 time State champion Jake Tullis and Micah Heimuli battled fearlessly for two hours against the defending State champion @ 3rd singles and came up just short 7-6,7-6.
When all the points were tallied, Lone Peak walked away with a 3rd place finish. With 4 freshmen and 3 juniors on Varsity this year, Lone Peak served notice that they will be a team to be reckoned with next year and years to come.