Grove grabs only Wolf win at bi-district / Tennis

None of the Coupeville High School entries in the Emerald City League/Bi-district Tennis Tournament survived the first day of action at Redmond Saturday, Oct. 19.

Mason Grove was the only Wolf to collect a win in the loser-out first round, coming back to take down Robert Jiang of Bear Creek 3-6, 6-3, 10-6.

That qualified the Coupeville senior for the double-elimination portion of the tournament, where he lost 6-0, 6-0 to University Prep’s Tyler Wurzer and 6-0, 6-1 to Seattle Academy’s Josh Davydov.

Coupeville’s other participants all lost in the first round and were eliminated.

Drake Borden won the first set over Bear Creek’s Bouke Spoelstra 6-1 but fell 6-3, 12-10 in the next two.

In doubles, James Wood and Zach Ginnings lost to University Prep’s Nicholas Arron and Mattias Keaunui 6-0, 6-0; and Andrew Aparicio and Thane Peterson lost to Overlake’s Sammy Yang and Declan Vail 6-0, 6-2.

The tournament completed the 2019 season for the Wolves.

Coupeville and South Whidbey are the only North Sound Conference schools that provide boys tennis, so the two teams compete in the tradition-rich Emerald City League. Teams from the ECL have finished either first or second in the state tournament nine of the past 10 years.