Portland Tennis splits with Ionia
On Wednesday, September 24th, the Portland High School boys tennis team faced Ionia.
Portland - 4, Ionia - 4,
Singles:
No. 1 - Tejan Virk, Portland def. Harper Duell, Ionia, 6-0 , 6-1
No. 2 - Cole Petersen, Ionia def. Gavin Beckett, Portland, 3-6 , 6-1 , 6-2
No. 3 - Jude Gregory, Ionia def. Tyler Clark, Portland, 6-2 , 3-6 , 7-6 (4)
No. 4 - Jake Whitney, Ionia def. Joshua Seavey, Portland, 6-4 , 6-1
Doubles:
No. 1 - Max Weller, Portland - Camden Calkins, Portland def. Riley Yokom, Ionia - Mason Clark, Ionia, 6-2 , 6-0
No. 2 - Keaton Bayless, Portland - Sam Nobis, Portland def. Jackson Fuller, Ionia - Steven Flohr, Ionia, 6-0 , 6-0
No. 3 - Gage Larson, Portland - Vander Nye, Portland def. Bruno Belleza, Ionia - Lucas McCoy, Ionia, 6-2 , 6-1
No. 4 - Owen Yokum, Ionia - Sam Montgomery, Ionia def. Jacob Heinicke, Portland - Tanner Brownell, Portland, 6-3 , 2-6 , 7-6 (4)
A split match between two rival tennis teams is exactly the kind of small-town sports story that never makes it past local coverage, which is precisely why papers like this matter so much. Confirming whether a specific recap had actually run meant calling the pantagraph phone number directly, since searching their site alone didn't turn up the archived piece. Stories this local only survive if a paper is actually committed to documenting them, recaps and all.