MOULTRIE — The Colquitt County Tennis Association’s 18U Intermediate Gold team has won four straight matches in the USTA Team Tennis State Championships in Macon and will play semifinal match at 8 this morning.
On Friday, Colquitt County defeated Atlanta 4-1 and endured two rain delays to defeat Bleckley County 4-1.
The scoring was short set, two of three sets, match tiebreaker four games.
Against Atlanta, Blake Jenkins fell at boys singles 1-4 to Benjamin Hirsch; Carli Hester won at girls singles over Sushmitha Radhakrishnan 4-3, 4-2; Bo Blalock and Brandon Oaks won over Brock Beisel and David Wang 4-2, 4-1; Constance Terrell and Rachel Funderburk won over Laura Sipe and Marie Bradford 4-0, 4-1 at girls doubles; and Hester and Jacob Tompkins won over Jack Ridderhof and Sayaka Ishidawaa 4-1, 4-2.
Colquitt County won at boys singles against Bleckley County with Tompkins winning over Frank Massicotte 4-2, 4-3; Funderburk lost to Erin McLure 2-4, 1-4 at girls singles; Blalock and Oaks defeated Andrew Davis Bloser and Stanley Simmons 4-0,, 3-4, 1-0 at boys doubles; Hester and Terrell won 4-0, 4-1 over Chelsea Hodges and Anna Dominey 4-0, 4-1 at girls doubles; and Jenkins and Funderburk defeated John Akridge and Caroline Harrington 4-1, 1-4, 1-0 in mixed doubles.
On Saturday, Colquitt County defeated Columbus 4-1 and Athens 5-0.
In the match against Columbus, Blalock fell at boys singles to Benjamin Shiver 1-4, 2-4; Terrell won at girls singles 4-0, 4-2 over McKenzie Jo Harrison; Oaks and Tompkins won over Trip Michael John Medders and Jimmie Deion Crimes 4-2, 4-1 in boys doubles; Hester and Funderburk defeated Rebecca Levy and Hendley Badcock 4-3, 4-3 in girls doubles; and Jenkins and Terrell defeated Wait Trussell and Rebecca Levy 4-2, 4-0 in mixed doubles.
Colquitt breezed past Athens.
Oaks defeated Jeffrey Branson 4-3, 4-2 at boys singles; Hester won over Jenny Ortman 4-1, 4-0 at girls singles; Tompkins and Jenkins won over Christopher Dove and Joshua Dooley at boys doubles; Terrell and Funderburk defeated Savannah Bartel and Alexia Supakorndej 4-0, 4-2 in girls doubles; and Hester and Blalock won over Bronson and Supakorndez 4-2, 4-1 in mixed doubles.
In the four matches, Colquitt County is 17-3 in individual matches has won 34 sets and has lost only eight and is 142-76 in games.
The team is coached by Chip Blalock.
David Oaks is the team’s captain.
