For the week of  September 5 - 11, 2001

Tennis players enjoy Labor Day tourney

Perry, Haggstrom capture men’s doubles

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By LAURA CORDES
Express Correspondent

This year’s entries doubled in size for the Labor Day tennis tournament at the Warm Spring Tennis Club.

Tournament director Mark Scribner said that the nearly 100 entries made for an exciting three-day tournament.

"The numbers this year gave more depth to the draw," Scribner said. "It made the competition tougher."

David Perry, the Fourth of July winner, added another men’s Open singles crown. Warm Spring pro Perry defeated Jared Burnham 6-3, 6-3 in the championship match.

Another Warm Springs pro, Kurt Haggstrom, and Ketchum local Kiril Sokoloff won the men’s Open doubles crown.

Haggstrom and Sokoloff beat Bryant Jones and David Perry 6-7 (4), 6-3, 7-6 (5) in the finals.

In the 4.5 mixed doubles finale, Ryan Drew and sister Lauren Drew defeated Eric and Gwen Thornfeldt 6-2, 6-3.

Ryan and Lauren Drew both won singles state championships for The Community School last spring.

Here are top results from last weekend’s tournament:

 

Singles

• Men’s Open final—Perry 6-3, 6-3 over Burnham.
  
  Semi-finals—Perry 6-0, 6-3 over Mark Scribner and Burnham 6-4, 7-6 (6) over Mark Ohlman (8 players).
  
  
  

• Men’s 4.5 final: Brian Johnson of Boise 6-0, 6-2 over Eric Thornfeldt.
  
  Semi-finals—Johnson 6-4, 6-3 over Stephen Sundra and Thornfeldt 6-2, 6-2 over Mark Pynn (12 players).
  
  
  

• Men’s 4.0 final—Lon McDonald of Jerome 3-6, 6-4, 6-2 over Phil Ellis.
  
  Semi-finals—McDonald 6-4, 6-4 over Joel Evans and Ellis 6-2, 6-0 over Rex Chandler (11 players).
  
  
  

• Men’s 3.5 final—Alan Frankle of Boise 6-1, 2-6, 6-1 over Scooter Sabel.
  
  Semi-finals—Frankle over Bob Kyle and Sabel 6-0, 6-0 over Ira Shephard (9 players).
  
  
  

• Women’s 4.0 RR—First place, Kelle Weston; second place, Julie Lynn.
  
  Weston 7-5, 6-3 over Lynn; Weston 6-0, 6-2 over Ashley Lakey and Lynn 6-3, 7-5 over Lakey (3 players).
  
  
  

• Women’s 3.5 final—Gwen Thornfeldt of Boise over Ellen Yip-Cornwell.
  
  Semi-finals—Thornfeldt 6-1, 6-1 over Chelsea Cutler and Yip-Cornwell 6-1, 6-3 over Charlotte Alexander (8 players).
  
  
  

• Women’s 3.0 final—Helena Goodwin of Hailey 6-0, 7-6 (8) over Tracy Jolley.
  
  Semi-finals—Goodwin 6-0, 6-0 over Diane Thain and Tracy Jolley 6-4, 4-6, 7-5 over Hadley DeBree (6 players).

 

Doubles

• Men’s Open final—Kiril Sokoloff and Haggstrom 6-7 (4), 6-3, 7-6 (5) over Bryant Jones and David Perry.
  
  Semi-finals—Sokoloff and Haggstrom 6-7, 6-4, 6-2 over Mark Scribner and Ryan Drew; Jones and Perry 3-6, 6-4, 6-2 over Dick Svedman and Mark Ohlman (4 teams).
  
  
  

• Men’s 4.5 final—Johnson and Thornfeldt 7-5, 6-4 over Dick Svedman and Scott Martindale.
  
  Semi-finals—Johnson and Thornfeldt 6-0, 7-6 (6) over Josh Charlat and D.J. Hart; Svedman and Martindale 4-6, 6-3, 6-1 over Bob Reeder and Mark Pynn (5 teams).
  
  
  

• Men’s 4.0 RR—First place, Phil Ellis and Lon McDonald, second place, Aaron and T.J. Merzlock.
  
  Ellis and McDonald 6-3, 6-2 over Merzlocks; Ellis and McDonald 6-3, 6-2 over Dan Hunt and Jim Britt; Merzlocks 7-5, 7-5 over Hunt and Britt (3 teams).
  
  
  

• Men’s 3.5 final—Alan Frankle and Herb Alexander 6-3, 6-1 over Joe Marshall and John Jablonski.
  
  Semis—Frankle and Alexander 6-2, 6-2 over Tom Nelson and Harmon Prine; Marshall and Jablonski 6-4, 6-4 over Ira Shephard and Dick Wetherall (8 teams).
  
  
  

• Women’s 4.0 final—Juli Webb and Debbie Gomulka 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 over Katie Pratt and Chiyo Parten.
  
  Semis—Webb and Debbie Gomulka 6-3, 2-6, 6-4 over Sibyl Hansen and Jackie Thomas; Pratt and Parten 6-3, 6-2 over Alma Mills and Beth Elroy (5 teams).
  
  
  

• Women’s 3.5 final—Channing Yip and Ellen Yip-Cornwell 6-3, 6-4 over Joyce Burrell and Charlotte Alexander.
  
  Semis—Channing Yip and Ellen Yip-Cornwell 4-6, 6-1, 6-0 over Jill Brennan and Conlee Copeland; Burrell and Alexander 7-6 (5), 6-2 over Sandy Killian and Dina Stevenson (5 teams).
  
  
  

• Women’s 3.0 final—Edith Iler and Jessica Dunn 6-2, 6-0 over Marline Rennels and Bev McLean.
  
  Semis—Iler and Dunn 6-3, 6-1 over Shannon Webb and Wendy Hall; Rennels and McLean 6-2, 7-6 (0) over Hadley DeBree and Mandy Alexander (4 teams).
  
  
  

• Mixed 4.5 RR—First place, Ryan Drew and Lauren Drew; second place, Eric and Gwen Thornfeldt.
  
  Drews 6-2, 6-3 over Thornfeldts; Drews 6-3, 1-6, 6-3 over Mark Pynn and Heidi Mickelson; Thornfeldts 1-6, 6-2, 6-4 over Pynn and Heidi Mickelson (3 teams).
  
  
  

• Mixed 4.0 RR—First place, John Parten and Chiyo Parten; second place, Dan Hunt and Jody Hunt.
  
  Partens 7-6 (8), 3-6, 6-4 over Hunts; Partens 6-1, 6-0 over Patrick Brennan and Ashley Lakey; Hunts 6-0, 6-2 over Brennan and Ashley Lakey (3 teams).
  
  
  

• Mixed 3.5 final—Herb Alexander and Arlene Herich 6-2, 6-2 over Dick Wetherall and Jean Mannino.
  
  Semis—Alexander and Herich over Bing Copeland and Conlee Copeland; Wetherall and Mannino over Bob Kyle and Nita Kyle (6 teams).

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