Waldron Jr-Sr High School

The young men traveled on Friday night to play in the 2 day Silver Creek Invite. A quality field of eight teams , most which were ranked, awaited the Mohawks to battle in the super hot conditions. The Mohawks had an awesome performance both days and came home with a 3rd place finish to champions Seymour and runner-up Evansville Memorial! The young men proved they belong with the best in the state, despite being the smallest school in the invite! The Mohawks won 2 out of 5 divisions for the weekend! #1 singles Charlie Fischer was crowned champion in his flight playing some of his best tennis of his career. In the first round , Charlie got to play a teammate in Tad Crosby. Tad was filling in for a team and did an awesome job in his three matches on the weekend. Charlie defeated Tad 6-0, 6-1 to reach the semifinals. In the semifinals, Charlie got to face Zach Woodyard of Evansville Memorial. Zach was a great player who gave Charlie all he could handle. Charlie won in straight sets 6-4, 6-2. In the championship match, Charlie met up with Ledger Cissell of Silver Creek. Ledger is a phenomial player and raced out to a 4-0 lead to start the match. Charlie made some adjustments and won 5 games in a row. They went back and forth in first set trading punches and finally Charlie got the first set 7-6 (7-5). Charlie got the second set 6-2 to win the #1 singles flight! Awesome job Charlie! #1 doubles Jackson Kuhn and Caige Sheaffer were also crowned champions in their flight! In their opening match they took on Emmett Graber and Gabe Walton from Loogootee. They defeated the Lions duo 6-3, 6-4 to reach the semifinals. They faced Graham Hubert and Ezra Toney from Evansville Christian. The Mohawk duo played one of its best matches together winning 6-0, 6-2. The finals set them up with their only loss of the season in the Seymour duo of David Lemming and Braylon Busby. Jackson and Caige got off to a slow start dropping first set 6-2. They flipped the switch in the set winning 6-3. In the third set tiebreak they roared out to a 9-0 lead to capture the title with 10-5 win! Great job Jackson and Caige. #3 singles Noah Leap got a big quarterfinal win 6-4, 6-1 over Logan Epkey of Silver Creek to reach the semifinal. In the semifinal, Noah had a tough opponent in Know Jeffers from Loogootee. Noah lost the first set 6-2, then came back to win second set 6-1. In the third set, Noah came up a little short 11-9 in the tiebreak. In the playback third match , Noah fell to Brock Hehmann of New Palestine 8-3. Great job Noah! #2 doubles Owen Hartman and Kevin Crouch also got a big quarterfinal win 6-3, 7-6 (7-5) over Connor Epkey and Waylan Flaherty of Silver Creek. In the semifinals , they played Brady Groce and Jack Hehmann for second time in a week. They fell 7-5, 6-2 to the talented Dragons duo. In the playback match , the boys were heated out with third match of the day and fell 8-0 . Great job Owen and Kevin. #2 singles Lincoln Fischer had a tough first round match with Dane Thompson of Seymour. Lincoln fell 6-3, 6-2 to talented Owl player. In the playbacks, Lincoln lost 8-3 to Grayson Kluesner of Loogootee . Lincoln was able to win his third match 8-3 so that all Mohawks got at least one win! Great job Lincoln!