The Shelbyville Tennis Sectional championship came down to one final set at No. 3 singles.

Shelbyville won both doubles matches. Waldron took the first two singles matches bringing the sectional title down to a No. 3 singles match between Waldron’s Jack Fischer and Shelbyville’s Barni Kovacs.

The pair did not face each other in the regular-season match.

Kovacs won the first set but Fischer secured the second set. Fischer raced out to a 5-2 advantage in the third set and finished off Kovacs, 6-3, to set off the championship celebration.

Waldron (19-4), with its first sectional title since 2019, will face the winner of the Connersville Sectional Tuesday in a semifinal match at the Center Grove Regional. Center Grove will face the winner of the Perry Meridian Sectional in the other regional semifinal.

Shelbyville’s No. 1 doubles pairing of Karson Schaf (photo, right) and Aiden Smith (photo, left), now 20-4 this season, advanced into the state doubles tournament with their win Friday over the Mohawks.

They could face Triton Central’s Connor Evans and Eli Sego in the sectional doubles tournament that starts next week at Center Grove. Evans and Sego won their sectional semifinal match Thursday to qualify for the state doubles tournament.

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