Utica Eisenhower had a solid boys tennis season last fall.<\/p>\n
The Eagles were third in a competitive Macomb Area Conference Red Division and fifth at a deep regional in which the Eagles hosted last October.<\/p>\n
This year, Eisenhower would love nothing more than to take a leap forward.<\/p>\n
The Eagles showcased some depth Thursday at the Eisenhower Invitational, topping the eight-school field with 23 points and winning seven of the eight flights on the day. Eisenhower was in midseason form even though the season is less than two weeks old.<\/p>\n
Clinton Township Chippewa Valley was second with 16 points, while Utica Ford (14), Wyandotte (11), Fraser (11), Almont (8), Macomb Dakota (8) and Warren Mott (2) rounded out the field.<\/p>\n
Dakota\u2019s Zac Clouse defeated Wyandotte\u2019s Carson Haley in straight set (6-0, 6-0) to claim the No. 1 singles title. That was the only flight that Eisenhower didn\u2019t win on the day but had a competitor finish third.\n<\/p>\n
Eisenhower came back and had three champions in the singles flight and swept all four doubles flights to win the tournament by seven points over runner-up Chippewa Valley, which had four runner-up finishes on the day.<\/p>\n
Eisenhower\u2019s Eli Layson defeated Chippewa Valley\u2019s Zach Ulmer in three sets (6-4, 4-6, 6-3) to earn the No. 2 singles crown.<\/p>\n
The Eagles saw Angelo Restauri win the No. 3 singles flight as he swept Utica Ford\u2019s Nolan Cybulski (6-0, 6-1) in the finals, while Eisenhower teammate Achilles Coutinho swept Chippewa Valley\u2019s Nick Ivanov (6-1, 6-2) in the No. 4 singles flight finals.<\/p>\n
The doubles flights were all claimed by host Eisenhower.<\/p>\n
Samuel Palushaj and Michael Crandall teamed up at No. 1 doubles to go 3-0 on the day, including a 6-1, 6-1 sweep of Utica Ford\u2019s Austin Ruzzin and Riley Haysmer.<\/p>\n
At No 2 doubles, Noor Al-Bermani and Gio Kaktoma posted a 6-3, 6-2 decision over Chippewa Valley\u2019s Ryder Degraw and Evan Kler in the finale.<\/p>\n
Eisenhower\u2019s Jayden Yoo and Luka Bozhinovski posted a 6-3, 6-3 decision over Chippewa Valley\u2019s Nathan Boehlig and Adam Chrominski in the No. 3 doubles finals, while the Eagles\u2019 siblings duo of Colton Colburn and Mason Colburn took down Almont\u2019s Trevor Clark and Chanhee Lee by a 6-1, 6-1 count in the No. 4 doubles finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Utica Eisenhower had a solid boys tennis season last fall. The Eagles were third in a competitive Macomb…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[12724,12726,541,12728,12729,8593,12737,50,12738,28,12739,12740,209],"class_list":["post-55146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-clinton-township","tag-fraser","tag-high-school-sports","tag-macomb","tag-macomb-county","tag-michigan","tag-shelby-township","tag-sports","tag-sterling-heights","tag-tennis","tag-utica","tag-warren","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}