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05/21/13 - Three Ada High School seniors — Josh Ellis, John Stout and Margo Martin — earned Oklahoma Coaches Association All-State Tennis honors and will compete in the all-state matches on July 30 at Tulsa Union High School.
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05/13/13 -

Cougars Win Class 4A State Tennis Championship!

The Ada Cougar Tennis Team went "Back to Back" in winning consecutive State Championships!  The margin of victory was much larger this year.  In fact, the Cougars clinched the championship before the final round of matches were even played.

Ada scored 29 points while Byng and Riverfield Academy, of Tulsa, tied for second place with 20.

It was the 10th boys state crown for the Cougars, and it marked the first time since 1980 and 1981 that they captured back-to-back state titles. Ada also has six girls state championships.

For Ada, the No. 1 Doubles team of Andrew Leach and Josh Ellis, both seniors, closed out their careers with a 6-4, 6-2 decision over Hayden Black and Jacob Day from Henryetta. The victory capped off a perfect 4-0 run for the Leach-Ellis tandem, which finished the season at 22-7.

The Cougars’ No. 2 Doubles combination of Zack Whelchel and Charlie Hansen won their title match in three sets over Sam Albert-Jeremy Atkinson from Elk City by a 6-0, 0-6, 6-4 count. Whelchel and Hansen were also 4-0 for the tournament and improved to 19-6 for the year.

In singles play, the Cougars’ only other senior, John Stout, took third place at the No. 1 spot while Jamie Earle settled for fourth place at No. 2. Stout went 3-1 for the tournament and won his final match by injury default over Mount Saint Mary athlete Blake Crawford. Earle dropped a tough three-set decision in the third-place match to Tyler Dang of Classen to go 2-2 for the tournament.

Stout finished the season with a 12-10 overall record, and Earle went 21-12 for the year.

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05/08/13 - The Ada High School boys’ tennis team claimed three championships and one runner-up finish to run away with the team title at the Class 4A Regional Tournament on Monday at LaFortune Park in Tulsa.

Ada posted a team score of 46 in dominating the 12-team event while runner-up Okmulgee had 37.

Jamie Earle claimed a No. 2 Singles crown for the Cougars while the doubles’ teams of Josh Ellis and Andrew Leach, at the No. 1 spot, and Charlie Hansen and Zack Whelchel, at No. 2, also picked up regional titles. John Stout finished second at No. 1 Singles for Ada.

Earle earned the No. 2 Singles title with an easy 6-0, 6-0 win over Oklahoma Bible Academy’s Logan Jantz in the finals. Earle posted a perfect 3-0 record for the tournament.

At No. 1 Doubles, Ellis and Leach combined for a 6-1, 6-2 victory over the duo from Seminole while Hansen and Whelchel were 6-1, 6-0 winners over the pair from Oologah.

Ellis and Leach teamed up for a 3-0 record in the regional while Hansen and Whelchel ended up with a 2-0 mark for the event.

At No. 1 singles, Okmulgee’s Russell Gehring topped Stout in three sets, 5-7, 6-4, 6-4. Stout finished with a 2-1 record in the regional.

“We handled business, played well and are looking forward to state,” said Ada head coach Skip Griese.

The state tournament is set for Friday and Saturday at the Oklahoma City Tennis Center.

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Cougar Tennis
05/16/12 -

State Champs!

Ada’s boys tennis team was as good as the sum of its parts at this year’s Class 4A State Tournament.

The Cougars were a perfect 8-for-8 on the rain-delayed opening day of the tournament Saturday and key wins Monday enabled the Cougars to claim the State Championship.

“We came up here for the team championship,” Ada coach Skip Griese said.

“Sometimes you don’t have to win individual championships to win a team championship.  You can’t win the state tournament on the first day, but you can definitely lose it.

With the third-place matchs in No. 1 and No. 2 Doubles remaining, Ada had clinched at least a share of the team title but had to win one of those matches to avoid a tie for the top spot.  

Ada’s No. 1 Doubles team of Andrew Leach and Josh Ellis finished as Runner-ups in the final match of the tournament.  But before the No. 1 Doubles match was final, Ada’s No. 2 Doubles team of Zack Whelchel and Charlie Hansen had rallied from a 4-1 deficit in the third set to win a thriller, 6-4, 2-6, 7-5, over Sam Albertson and Jeremy Atkinson of Elk City in their third-place match to clinch the team championship.

In No. 2 Singles, Ryan Burkhart also earned a Runner-up finish after eliminating Classen's Tyler Dang in the semi-finals. 

Ada’s John Stout entered the final day of the tournament as the defacto No. 1 seed in No. 1 Singles, after the top two seeds — Shawn Selvidge of Sperry and Payne Veazy of Clinton — suffered early-round losses.  Stout beat Okmulgee’s Russ Gehring (who had beaten Veazy in the first round) in the semifinals, breaking his serve five times en route to winning the first set, 6-3, before dominating the second, 6-2.  

In the finals, Stout took a 3-1 lead in the first set and a 2-1 lead in the second, but he battled leg cramps from the middle of the first set on and lost to No. 4 seed Vivek Patel of Henryette, 6-4, 6-3.  The 10th and final game of the first set was a marthon by itself, with Stout (who was serving) and Patel going to deuce nine times.  Stout dodged five break points but also missed on three chances of his own to win the game at deuce before he was a wide on a return to give Patel the game and the set.

In Ada’s all-important No. 2 Doubles third-place match, Hansen held serve in the 10th game to tie the third set at 5-5, then with the Cougars down 40-15 in the 11th game, he hit three winners — an overhand at the net to make it 40-30, a nice drop shot at the net for deuce, and an overhand smash at the net — to fuel a service break.  Whelchel then held his serve to complete the comeback and clinch the team title for Ada. 

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05/09/12 -

The Ada Tennis Center has been quite a home court advantage for the Ada High tennis squads over the past week.

Seven days after the Ada girls lost just one set in sweeping their regional tournament on their way to a runner-up finish Saturday at the Class 4A State Tournament, the AHS boys were even more dominant Monday at their regional, winning every set while easily outdistancing the rest of the nine-team field.

“Our goal every year is to win our regional — this year our goal was to sweep our regional,” veteran Ada tennis coach Skip Griese said after watching the Cougars stamp themselves as contenders for their program’s first state title since 1998. “The last few years, we needed somebody to beat somebody to help us. This year, if we go up there and play well we have a chance to win it, but so do Byng, Henryetta and Anadarko.”

Although the boys squad didn’t lose a set Monday, there were a few anxious moments.

Ada’s No. 1 Doubles tandem of Andrew Leach and Josh Ellis made short work of Joe Barboza and Chris Rettman of Harrah, 6-1, 6-2, but the No. 2 Doubles team of Zack Whelchel and Charlie Hansen had to survive a dogfight before disposing of Colton O’Neal and Christian Martin of Seminole, 6-3, 6-4.  

Junior John Stout also had a battle on his hands with freshman Blake Crawford of Mount St. Mary in the No. 1 Singles championship match before Crawford defaulted with an apparent calf injury while trailing 1-0 in the second set. Stout had to rally to win the first set, 6-4.

Crawford broke Stout’s serve in the first game of the match and had a break point at 30-40 in the ninth game with the set tied at 4-4. Stout held his serve, however, and he broke Crawford’s serve in the 10th game without losing a point.  

No. 2 Singles player Drew Burkhart — Ada’s best hope for a No. 1 seed in what shapes up as a wide open 4A State Tournament — beat Dalton McCall of Okmulgee, 6-1 in the first set of their championship match and built a 4-0 lead in the second set with some impressive work at the net before unforced errors enabled McCall to win two straight games and close to with 4-2.

But Burkhart took a 30-15 lead in the seventh game with a nice forehand winner at the net and won the game with a passing shot to take a 5-2 lead in the set.  He then hit several nice shots in the eighth game — including a backhand winner on the first point, a passing shot at the net at deuce and another backhand winner to take the lead for good.  McCall was wide on a return on the next point to wrap up the win.

“We did what we needed to do in the context of what we need to do this weekend,” Griese said.

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