Edwardsville relied on depth across the lineup to defend its title at the 41st Hilltopper Invitational on April 18 at Glenbard West.<\/p>\n
The Tigers won the No. 2 singles flight and swept all three doubles flights to finish with 27 points.<\/p>\n
Glenbard West (18) was second and Glenbard South (12) was third in the eight-team tournament that featured two flights of singles and three flights of doubles.<\/p>\n
The Tigers improved on last season\u2019s title performance, when they scored 21 points with a first-place finish at No. 1 doubles and a runner-up performance at No. 1 singles.<\/p>\n
Brandon Wong led the singles effort, going 3-0 to win the No. 2 flight.<\/p>\n
After finishing second a year ago, Wong defeated Wheaton Warrenville South\u2019s Michael Medanic 6-2, 6-1, Glenbard East\u2019s Arnav Mehta 6-2, 6-3 and Glenbard South\u2019s David Kiss 6-3, 6-1.<\/p>\n
At No. 1 singles, Jake Brinker went 2-1 to place third. He beat Wheaton Warrenville South\u2019s Michael Hauenstein 6-2, 6-1 and Palatine\u2019s Justin Chen 6-0, 6-0 with his lone loss to Glenbard East\u2019s Finn Talbot 6-0, 5-7, 10-5.<\/p>\n
Edwardsville controlled doubles.<\/p>\n
At No. 1 doubles, Isaac Chleboun and Schaefer Bates went 3-0 to win the flight. They defeated Downers Grove South\u2019s Koko Dimitrakakos and Ryan Roumenov 7-6 (5), 6-3, Wheaton Warrenville South\u2019s Jack Landin and Angel Salcido 6-0, 6-2 and Glenbard East\u2019s Evan Fine and Dean Piticavong 6-1, 6-0.<\/p>\n
Bates won his second straight Hilltopper title after capturing No. 1 doubles last season with Jesse Hattrup.<\/p>\n
At No. 2 doubles, John Almos and Lucas Rudd also went 3-0. They beat Glenbard West\u2019s Nick Harding and Duncan Rowley 6-2, 7-5, Downers Grove South\u2019s Kyle Surina and Sam Wootton 6-2, 6-2 and Sandburg\u2019s Joshua Carandang and Sujal Shah 6-1, 6-0.<\/p>\n
Eliot Riechmann and Evan Ousley completed the sweep at No. 3 doubles, going 3-0 with wins over Palatine\u2019s Jeremiah Zhang and Zaiyn Yousuf 6-0, 6-0, Downers Grove South\u2019s Max Tylka and Ethan Vanderlaan 6-3, 6-2 and Glenbard West\u2019s Adler Wanger and MJ Wargin 6-3, 6-2.<\/p>\n
Edwardsville returns to action when it hosts O’Fallon in Southwestern Conference play at 3:30 p.m. April 21 inside the EHS Tennis Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Edwardsville relied on depth across the lineup to defend its title at the 41st Hilltopper Invitational on April…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,44,157899,82,593],"class_list":["post-614709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news","tag-pubnow","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}