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Prep Report: Triton Central tennis advances past Waldron at Shelbyville Sectional

Triton Central advanced to the semifinal round of the Shelbyville tennis sectional tournament Wednesday with a 5-0 victory over Waldron.

The Tigers (15-4) dominated the singles matches, losing just four games total in three matches.

At No. 1 singles, Tucker Hutchinson defeated Lucas Shaw, 6-0, 6-0.

Avram Rund topped Sam Jones, 6-0, 6-2 at No. 2 singles.

Cole Thomas lost just two games at No. 3 singles, 6-1, 6-1 over Caiden Young.

At No. 1 doubles, Griffin Sego and Ben Toth bested Josh Kellems and Jacob Lindsey, 6-3, 7-5.

Oliver Gearlds and Joey Brosnan closed out the sweep with a 6-1, 6-1 victory over Connor Hinchman and Matthew Thomas at No. 2 doubles.

Waldron ended its tennis season with a 10-9 record.

Triton Central will face Southwestern today at 5 p.m. at Shelbyville High School.

In the other semifinal round match, the host Golden Bears will take on Morristown.

The sectional championship match is scheduled for 5 p.m. Friday.

In other prep events Wednesday:

Boys Soccer

Southwestern 3, Greenwood 1

At Southwestern, Garreth Stringer collected the hat trick on Senior Night to lead Class A, No. 17 Southwestern to its 10th win of the season.

Stringer started the scoring midway through the first half when he converted a penalty kick. His second goal came off an assist from Josh Karr with just under 10 minutes left in the half to make it 2-0.

Jake Callow cut Southwestern’s lead in half with a goal off an assist by Nick Mullins late in the half.

Stringer got his third goal, a Shelby County leading 14th of the season, near the midpoint of the second half from a Tucker Simmons assist to make it 3-1.

Goalkeeper Matthew Clements was credited with 16 saves for the Spartans (10-2-2).

Greenwood dropped to 7-8 this season.

Southwestern caps off its regular-season schedule today at Bethesda Christian (8-5-1).

Girls Soccer

Triton Central 2, University 1

At University, Lizzie Graham scored a pair of second-half goals less than two minutes apart to help the Tigers (6-9) steal the road victory from the Trailblazers (5-7-1).

University led 1-0 at the end of the first half.

Graham tallied her 15th and 16th goals of the season off assists from Emma Firebaugh and Olivia Reedy.

Triton Central wrap up its regular-season schedule Saturday at Greensburg (5-7).

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