Page 16 - 2011-12 Girls Tennis State Finals Program

2011 Tournament in Review

Carmel Outlasts Evansville Memorial for School’s 100th
IHSAA State Championship
Carmel’s Mikaela Carlson outlasted Evansville Memo-
rial’s Jasmine Lee at No. 2 singles in the deciding match
of the day as the Greyhounds claimed a 3-2 decision and
the girls tennis state championship at North Central High
School.
Carlson, a sophomore, rallied from a set down to beat
the freshman Lee, 4-6, 7-5, 6-2. The match lasted 2 hours
and 45 minutes with temperatures climbing to the mid-90s
and gave Carmel an undefeated season (21-0) and its
second state championship in three years in the sport. The
Greyhound boys team also won the team title in the fall.
The title was also the school’s 100th IHSAA state
championship, a state best, since winning its first in
boys golf during the 1969-70 school year. Carmel coach
Sharon Rosenburgh (1989, 1990, 2003, 2009, 2011) also
celebrated as the winning coach for the fifth time moving
her into a tie for second place for most girls tennis state
championship by a coach in state history.
With the score tied at 1 match a piece, Memorial’s
Rachael Swartwood took a three-set decision from Olivia
Trancik at No. 3 singles, 6-1, 2-6, 6-4, to put the Tigers Carmel shutout Fairfield, 5-0, on Friday and topped
ahead. Carmel knotted it up at 2-2 just a few minutes later Floyd Central, 4-1, in Saturday’s semifinal round.
as Alyson Bundy and Hannah Elliot outlasted Liz Wilm and Memorial (21-2), coached by Ray Trapp, had
Brenna Wu at No. 1 doubles, 2-6, 6-4, 7-5, setting up the defeated Fort Wayne Bishop Dwenger, 4-1, in Friday’s
showdown at No. 2 singles. quarterfinals and then knocked off defending state cham-
Both teams captured a victory just a minute a part in pion South Bend St. Joseph’s, 3-2, in the other Saturday
the early going. Alaina Finkelmeier and Michelle Li of Car- semifinal. It was the Tigers’ fifth runner-up finish, first since
mel bested Alexa Cox and Bailey Klipsch, 6-2, 6-3 at No. 2005, and second time to Carmel (1990). The school has
2 doubles and were quickly followed by Memorial’s Macie five championships to its credit and was looking for its first
Elliott’s 6-2, 6-4 win over Bailey Padgett at No. 1 singles. since 1996.

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