The Tanque Verde boys pulled out a 5-4 victory over Salpointe in a cross-divisional match held at the Reffkin Tennis Center located in central Tucson. Tanque Verde (3-2) started the day ranked No. 16 in Division III and Salpointe (1-2) was ranked No. 26 in Division II.  Rankings will be released Tuesday through Friday throughout the Tennis season at noon.

The deciding individual match was a 6-7, 6-2, 10-8 victory by Tanque Verde sophomore Tanner Larson over Salpointe senior Ian Vasquez on the fourth court.

As a team, Tanque Verde made it to the semifinal round last year where the Hawks lost to eventual D-III state champion Thatcher 5-2 and Salpointe finished runner-up to AZ College Prep 5-0 in the D-II final.

Salpointe junior Eli Hanna is the only singles or doubles qualifier remaining from last year. Tanque Verde junior Karl Gajda made it to the quarterfinal round last year as did the doubles team of Jiang Lin and Jon Hetland.

Eli hanna. (Andy Morales/AZPreps365)

 

TANQUE VERDE 5, SALPOINTE 4

 

SINGLES

1: TV Karl Gajda, Jr. over Eli Hanna, Jr. 6-3, 6-4

2: TV Jiang Lin, Sr. over Michael Starr, So. 6-1, 6-4

3: SC Grant Miller, Sr. over Jon Hetland, So. 7-5, 6-3

4: TV Tanner Larson, So. over Ian Vasquez, Sr. 6-7, 6-2, 10-8

5: SC Jackson Muller, Fr. over Wyatt Fagergren, So. 6-1, 6-3

6: SC Roman Weber, So. over Bowan Thé, Fr. 6-1, 6-2

DOUBLES

1: TV Lin/Hetland over Hanna/Starr (8-6)

2: TV Larson/Gajda over Muller/Miller (8-6)

3: SC Vasquez/Sherman Duran over Carter Portewig/Jude Donelson (8-5)