Bears Take Second in State!
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2006 Minnesota State High School League
Championship Match, June 7, 2006
Northwest Athletic Club, Burnsville, MN
Mounds Park Academy 6, The Blake School 1
The Bears fell to the Mounds Park Academy for the second straight year in the MSHSL Championship match.
The Bears topped Thief River Falls (6-1) in the first round and Waseca High School (6-1) in the semifinals to reach the finals.
The Panthers earned their way to the championship match by defeating Saint Paul Academy and Summit School 5-2 in the opening round and Litchfield High School 6-1 in the semifinals.
Defending singles champion senior Nick Lebedoff got The Blake School on the scoreboard first with a 6-3, 6-1 win at the #1 singles spot and it ended up as the only Bear victory of the day.
The Bears lost some very close matches. Seventh grader Ford Traff lost a three setter at #4 singles as did the #3 doubles team of Trent Palmberg (10)/Charlie Velie (7).
The toughest loss of the day may have been at #1 doubles when the team of Merritt Jackley (11)/Will Hancock (11) dropped a third-set tie-breaker ), 6-3, 2-6, 7-6 (7-4).
Singles
#1 - Nick Lebedoff (TBS) def. David Croonquist (MPA), 6-3, 6-1
#2 - Bryan Kelly (MPA) def. Phillip Jackley (TBS), 6-2, 6-0
#3 - Dan Melum (MPA) def. Frederick Zhang (TBS), 6-0, 6-4
#4 - Connor Hart (MPA) def. Ford Traff (TBS), 0-6, 6-1, 6-2
Doubles
#1 - Connor Brown/Nate Eigenfeld (MPA) def. Merritt Jackley/Will Hancock (TBS), 6-3, 2-6, 7-6 (7-4)
#2 - Ian Roliwitz/Karl Berget (MPA) def. Zach Kgin/Marc Massie (TBS), 6-1, 6-2
#3 - Brendan Byrne/Ben Yates (MPA) def. Trent Palmberg/Charlie Velie (TBS), 7-6 (7-3), 1-6, 6-1
Individual Tournament results
Blake juniors Will Hancock & Merritt Jackley fell to eventual champions seniors, Justin Peterson & Jean Francois David in the State Class A semi's. This loss foiled Hancock's chance for a repeat. Hancock and Jackley disposed of Crookston seniors Kirby Johnson and Derek Kaiser by a score of~6-3, 6-3 to capture third place at the 2006 Individual tournament held at Northwest Athletic Club, Burnsville.
Bear's senior Nick Lebedoff earned his trip to the finals with a 6-0, 6-0 win over sophomore Ian Hansen of Lac Qui Parle/Dawson-Boyd~in the opening round of the 2006 Individual tournament. In the quarter-finals Lebedoff ran into a real buzz-saw and had to survive a tie-break set to defeat senior Justin Pyle of Thief River Falls 6-0, 7-6 (7-1) and again with sophomore David Croonquist of Mounds Park Academy 7-6 (7-5), 6-4 in the semifinals. Ultimately, Lebedoff defended his 2005 Minnesota State High School League individual title with a 6-4, 6-4 win over senior Max Busch of the Marshall School, of Duluth.
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