The Edwardsville boys tennis team is closing in on another Southwestern Conference championship.<\/p>\n
The Tigers swept all three doubles flights Thursday at O\u2019Fallon High School to finish the first day of the SWC Tournament with 18 points. Edwardsville is chasing its 25th straight conference title.<\/p>\n
O\u2019Fallon is second with 13 points, followed by Belleville West with 12 and Belleville East with 11.<\/p>\n
The tournament concludes May 15 with six singles flights at O\u2019Fallon and Belleville East.<\/p>\n
At No. 1 doubles, Edwardsville\u2019s Schaefer Bates and Isaac Chleboun went 2-0 after receiving a first-round bye. Bates and Chleboun defeated Belleville West\u2019s Landon Kinder and Jay Naylor 6-3, 6-2 in the championship match.<\/p>\n
At No. 2 doubles, Edwardsville\u2019s Jake Brinker and Brandon Wong also received a first-round bye before winning twice, including a victory over O\u2019Fallon\u2019s Dylan Carter and Derek Guetterman in the championship match.<\/p>\n
At No. 3 doubles, John Almos and Lucas Rudd completed the sweep for the Tigers. After a first-round bye, Almos and Rudd won two matches, capped by a 6-4, 6-2 victory over O\u2019Fallon\u2019s Cole Gallagher and Cooper Baskett in the final.<\/p>\n
Edwardsville went 5-0 in SWC play during the regular season, while O\u2019Fallon finished second at 4-1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Edwardsville boys tennis team is closing in on another Southwestern Conference championship. The Tigers swept all three…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,44,157899,82,593],"class_list":["post-670700","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\/670700","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=670700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}