Sanders and Glanville win state doubles crown, Wolfpack boys tie for 2nd
Glacier's Harrison Sanders, left, and Timmy Glanville celebrate after winning the State AA boys doubles championship over Gallatin's Brody Smith and Braeden Butler at Flathead Valley Community College on Friday, May 26. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Glacier's Sarah Downs hits a return in the State AA girls doubles championship match with teammate Haven Speer against Missoula Hellgate's Laine Banziger and Brooke Best at Flathead Valley Community College on Friday, May 26. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Glacier's Harrison Sanders hits a backhand return in the State AA boys doubles championship match with teammate Timmy Glanville against Gallatin's Brody Smith and Braeden Butler at Flathead Valley Community College on Friday, May 26. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Glacier's Timmy Glanville hits a backhand return in the State AA boys doubles championship match with teammate Harrison Sanders against Gallatin's Brody Smith and Braeden Butler at Flathead Valley Community College on Friday, May 26. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Glacier's Timmy Glanville serves in the State AA boys doubles championship match with teammate Harrison Sanders against Gallatin's Brody Smith and Braeden Butler at Flathead Valley Community College on Friday, May 26. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Glacier's Haven Speer hits a backhand return in the State AA girls doubles championship match with teammate Sarah Downs against Missoula Hellgate's Laine Banziger and Brooke Best at Flathead Valley Community College on Friday, May 26. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Glacier's Sarah Downs serves in the State AA girls doubles championship match with teammate Haven Speer against Missoula Hellgate's Laine Banziger and Brooke Best at Flathead Valley Community College on Friday, May 26. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Glacier's Timmy Glanville scores a point with an overhead smash in the State AA boys doubles championship match with teammate Harrison Sanders against Gallatin's Brody Smith and Braeden Butler at Flathead Valley Community College on Friday, May 26. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Glacier's Haven Speer hits a return in the State AA girls doubles championship match with teammate Sarah Downs against Missoula Hellgate's Laine Banziger and Brooke Best at Flathead Valley Community College on Friday, May 26. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Glacier's Timmy Glanville and Harrison Sanders talk between sets during the State AA boys doubles championship against Gallatin's Brody Smith and Braeden Butler at Flathead Valley Community College on Friday, May 26. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Glacier's Harrison Sanders serves in the State AA boys doubles championship match with teammate Timmy Glanville against Gallatin's Brody Smith and Braeden Butler at Flathead Valley Community College on Friday, May 26. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Glacier got a boys doubles state champion to help the Wolfpack tie for second and the Missoula Hellgate Knights ended Bozeman’s decade-long run as girls champion Friday at the Class AA State Tennis Tournament at FVCC.
Harrison Sanders and Timmy Glanville bested Gallatin’s Brody Smith and Braeden Butler in the final, 6-3, 6-4.
Gallatin scored 29 points for the boys title, and Glacier and C.M. Russell tied for second with 23. Helena Capital was fourth with 13 points.
Hellgate’s girls were unbeatable Friday, scoring 32 points to Billings Skyview’s 16. Gallatin was third with 15 and Glacier was next with 14.
Freshman Elliotte Banzinger won the girls singles title for the Knights, beating Helena’s Qayl Kujala and her sister Laine, won the girls doubles title with partner Brooke Best.
Best and Banzinger upended Glacier’s previously unbeaten pair Haven Speer and Sarah Downs 6-3, 6-0, in the championship match.
Flathead’s Alexis Kersten ended up fifth, beating Billings Senior’s Bella Rogge 6-0, 6-1, in consolation.
Will Rudbach was fifth for Glacier after topping teammate Sam Engellant earlier in the day and defeating Sebastian Silverstein of Hellgate in consolation rounds.
Class AA State Tennis Tournament
Friday
Kalispell
BOYS
Team scores — Gallatin 29, Glacier 23, C.M. Russell 23, Helena Capital 13, Missoula Sentinel 8, Billings Skyview 7, Missoula Hellgate 7, Billings Senior 3, Billings West 2.
Singles
Semifinals
Ryan Ashley (Cap) def. Oliver Ward (Boz) 6-3, 6-3; Mason McCarty (Gal) def. Sebastian Silverstein (Helg) 6-3, 6-3.
Championship
McCarty def. Ashley 6-2, 6-3.
Consolation
Round 5
Will Rudbach (Gla) def. Sam Engellant (Gla) 7-6(5), 4-6, 6-3; Carson Rich (CMR) def. Eli Crist (CMR) 6-2, 6-2.
Round 7
Rich def. Silverstein, 6-3, 4-6, 6-3; Ward def. Rudbach 6-3, 7-5.
Third place
Ward def. Rich 6-4, 6-4.
Fifth place
Rudbach def. Silverstein 7-5, 4-6, 6-4.
Doubles
Semifinal
Brody Smith/Braeden Butler (Gal) def. Josh Stimac/Brady Pike (CMR) 6-4, 6-7(2), 7-5; Harrison Sanders/Timmy Glanville (Gla) 6-4, 6-1.
Championship
Sanders/Glanville def. Smith/Butler 6-3, 6-4.
Consolation
Round 5
Keaton Miller/Chris Piccioni (Sky) def. Cyrus Kiely/Ryosuke Murata (Helg) 6-4, 3-6, 6-2; Josh Ebel/Ridge Wohler (Sky) def. Nate Brooks/Colin Gross (Boz) 4-6, 6-3, 6-3.
Round 7
Noah Nelson/Jamie Navarro (Sent) def. Miller/Piccioni 6-7(6),7-5, 6-4; Stimac/Pike def. Ebel/Wohler 6-4, 6-4.
Third place
Stimac/Pike der. Nelson/Navarro 6-3, 6-4.
Fifth place
Ebel/Wohler def. Miller/Piccioni 7-5, 6-7(3), 7-5.
GIRLS
Team scores — Missoula Hellgate 32, Billings Skyview 16, Gallatin 15, Glacier 14, Helena High 13, C.M. Russell 9, Great Falls 8, Billings Senior 7, Flathead 6, Bozeman 5, Missoula Big Sky 4.
Singles
Semifinals
Qayl Kujala (Hel) def. Hazel Demaray (Sky) 2-6, 7-6(3), 6-2; Elliotte Banzinger (Helg) def. Lilly Langbein (GF) 6-4, 6-4.
Championship
Banzinger def. Kujala 6-0, 6-1.
Consolation
Round 5
Alexis Kersten (Fla) def. Landon Roberts (BS) 6-3, 6-0; Bella Rogge (Sen) def. Izabel Barr (Boz) 3-6, 6-4, 6-4.
Round 7
Langbein def. Kersten 7-5, 6-4; Demaray def. Rogge 6-0, 6-3.
Third place
Demaray def. Langbein 7-5, 6-4.
Fifth place
Kersten def. Rogge 6-0, 6-1.
Doubles
Haven Speer/Sarah Downs (Gla) def. Ava Roe/Brooklyn Helmer (Sky) 6-2, 6-0; Brooke Best/Laine Banzinger (Helg) def. Olivia Mansour/Sophia Mansour (Gal) 6-1, 6-0.
Championship
Best/Banzinger def. Speer/Downs 6-3, 6-0.
Consolation
Round 5
Alex Mansour/Averi Smith (Gal) def. Kendall Adler/Mae Michaelson (Helg) 6-0, 6-0; Becca Sherman/Olivia Martello (CMR) def. Hannah Kidd/Marin Meyer 7-5, 6-3.
Round 7
Mansour/Mansour def. Mansour/Smith 6-2, 6-1; Sherman/Martello def. Rose/Helmer 6-4, 6-3.
Third place
Mansour/Mansour def. Sherman/Martello 6-3, 6-2.
Fifth place
Mansour/Smith def. Roe/Helmer 6-7(3), 6-3, 6-2.
