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Admire Mushonga and Oliver Anderson |
Chloe Murphy |
In men's singles, three players made it all the way to the quarterfinals: Admire Mushonga, Oliver Andersen, and Edgar Vitkovski. Andersen and Mushonga continued their winning into the semi-finals, where they both won their respective matches and met in the Championship. Mushonga would defeat teammate Oliver Andersen 6-4, 4-6, and 6-3 to win the USTA/ITA Central Region Singles crown. "Oliver and Admire had a great tournament. Oliver really got a huge win in the semis over Cowley County Community College's #1 player, Zac Evenden, who beat Oliver only two weeks earlier at the OKC Collegiate Open. "It was really nice to see two Seminole State men playing each other for the Singles Championship," said SSC Head Coach Brian Nelson.
In doubles action, the Trojans entered two teams into the field of eight. Edgar Vitkovski & Evgeniy Kim went down in the first round to Seward CC in a close one 6-4 and 6-3. The story was different though for the other Seminole State duo, as #1 seed Oliver Andersen and Admire Mushonga made it all the way to the Championship and took the title over Cowley County by a score of 7-5 and 6-4.
In women's singles, two out of four SSC ladies were able to win their round of sixteen matches, sending them into the quarterfinals. Those ladies are freshmen Taylor Spradlin from Duncan, Oklahoma and Chloe Murphy from Liverpool, England. Spradlin would go down in the quarterfinals to Johnson County's Shannon Beckett, but Murphy could not be held down and made it all the way to the Championship match. In that final match, Murphy battled and fought her way to a third set, where she ended up winning it and the women's singles trophy by a score of 6-4, 5-7, and 6-3 over Cowley County's Diana Davitia. "I saw something new out of Chloe this weekend. Her final match was really the first time all semester that she had been down in a match and had been pushed. She was down 2-0 in the third set in the finals, and fought back to win that game and the set 6-3. I'm very proud of her and the way she came back. She is one of the toughest ladies I've ever coached, and she will go far. She is currently 10-0 in singles for the fall season," said Nelson.
In doubles action, both teams representing SSC won their first round quarterfinal match, sending them to the semi-finals. The pairs were Trevine Sellier and Ashley Coleman, and Taylor Spradlin and Chloe Murphy. In the semi-finals, Coleman/Sellier fell to the #1 seed Biro/Davitaia from Cowley but the duo of Spradlin/Murphy would not have the same result. They won their semi-final match sending them to the Championship.