Sports
Jackson Murray wins tennis title

BURLINGTON/ESSEX — In finals played on Saturday at The Edge club in Essex, Middlebury Union High School senior Jackson Murray won the individual boys’ tennis state championship, but the top-seeded Tiger doubles team of sophomore Nate Cook Yoder and Baker Nelson came up short.
Murray defeated Oscar Andersson of Champlain Valley, 6-2, 6-3, in the singles final to claim his crown.
In their final, Cook Yoder and Nelson were defeated by the Burlington High team of Quinn Moore and Sam Wick, 6-3, 6-2.
Most of the earlier rounds were played on Thursday and Friday in Burlington’s Leddy Park, although later rounds on Friday, as well as all play on Saturday, were moved to The Edge.
Tiger sophomore singles player Charles Young reached the quarterfinal round, as did the second Tiger doubles team of juniors Spencer Copeland and Adrien Malhotra before falling to the championship-bound Burlington team.
MUHS boys’ tennis will play in the Vermont team tournament on Thursday as the No. 7 seed.
The full scores of the Tiger players this past weekend were:
SINGLES
FIRST ROUND (Thursday)
Young, MUHS, defeated Milo Vinson, Mount Mansfield, 6-0, 6-0.
ROUND OF 16 (Friday)
Murray, MUHS, defeated Eli Welch, Brattleboro, 6-1, 6-0.
Young, MUHS, defeated Parker Guffey, Stowe, 2-6, 6-4, 1-0 (9).
Quarter-finals (Friday)
Murray, MUHS, defeated Oscar Crainich, Burlington, 3-6, 6-1, 1-0 (7).
Derin Suren, Essex, defeated Young, Middlebury, 2-6, 6-2, 1-0 (3).
SEMI-FINAL (Saturday)
Murray, MUHS, defeated Max Biedermann, Stowe, 6-3, 6-1.
FINAL (Saturday)
Murray, MUHS, defeated Oscar Andersson, CVU, 6-2, 6-3.
DOUBLES
ROUND OF 16 (Friday)
Cook Yoder/Nelson, MUHS, defeated Henry Farrell/Deven Shedd, Essex, 6-1, 7-5.
Copeland/Malhotra, MUHS, defeated Declan Coggins/Drew Zimmermann, Stowe, 6-4, 7-5.
QUARTER-FINALS (Friday)
Cook Yoder/Nelson, MUHS, defeated Semin Dervic/Tobey Bernabe, Burlington, 6-2, 3-6, 1-0 (5).
Moore/Wick, Burlington, defeated Copeland/Malhotra, MUHS, 6-2, 6-2.
SEMI-FINAL (Saturday)
Cook Yoder/Nelson, MUHS, defeated Miles Kenny/Oliver Crainich, Burlington 5-7, 7-6 (4), 1-0 (5).
FINAL (Saturday)
Moore/Wick, Burlington, defeated Cook Yoder/Nelson, MUHS, 6-3, 6-2.
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