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Five tournaments into their season, the HHS Badminton team is hitting their stride under the direction of coaches Ben Van der Staay and Dan Barnett
Five tournaments into their season, the HHS Badminton team is hitting their stride under the direction of coaches Ben Van der Staay and Dan Barnett

HHS Badminton teams poised for strong finish at MPS

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The Huntsville High School badminton schedule is well underway and is once again shaping up to be an exciting season on the courts. Consistent with previous years, HHS looks to field competitive boys, girls and doubles teams at the junior and senior levels. The first senior exhibition tournament came the week before March break, with the first junior tournament held the following Wednesday at HHS.

Results for the Huntsville contingent from the junior exhibition tournament were as follows:

Boys Singles
Tennyson Roberts 2-6
Joey Walsh 4-4

Girls Singles
Riko Katsuyama 6-1
Alicia McLinden 6-1

Boys Doubles
Matt Schmanda/Tyler Blair 8-0
Josh Trask/Tyler Arnott 6-2

Mixed Doubles
Josh Martin/Abby Fawcett 3-4

The tournament ran from 9am – 2:30pm, with Almaguin, St. Dominic’s, Bracebridge, Gravenhurst and Parry Sound all sending teams to compete with Huntsville. Play was competitive and fair with no issues or problems that came up regarding rules or sportsmanship, and a total of 42 “teams” present (a team would be either a double pairing or a singles player). All players took part in 6-8 games.

BACK ROW: Dan Barnett (Community Coach), Joey Walsh (Singles), Tyler Blair (Doubles), Tennyson Roberts (Singles), Tyler Arnott (Doubles), Matt Schmanda (Doubles, Josh Trask (Doubles), Josh Martin (Mixed Doubles), Ben van der Staay (Coach) FRONT ROW: Riko Katsuyama (Singles), Alicia McLinden (Singles), Abby Fawcett (Mixed Doubles)

Back from left: Dan Barnett (Community Coach), Joey Walsh (Singles), Tyler Blair (Doubles), Tennyson Roberts (Singles), Tyler Arnott (Doubles), Matt Schmanda (Doubles), Josh Trask (Doubles), Josh Martin (Mixed Doubles), Ben van der Staay (Coach); Front from left: Riko Katsuyama (Singles), Alicia McLinden (Singles), Abby Fawcett (Mixed Doubles)

HHS also competed in several doubles tournaments this past week, earning competitive seeding for the upcoming MPS Championships at St. Dominic’s.

Tommy Glibin & Brenna Shisko will advance as the second seed of nine teams for Senior Mixed Doubles, with Josh Martin & Abby Fawcett right behind as the third seed for Junior Mixed Doubles (out of eight teams). Kyra Merideth & Rebecca Westergaard are also in favourable positioning as the third seed of eight teams for Ladies Doubles.

The championship tournaments will take place starting next week in Bracebridge:

Senior MPS – Tuesday, April 12 at St. Dominic’s
Junior MPS – Thursday, April 14 at St. Dominic’s
Senior GBSSA – Tuesday, April 19 at JOA
Junior GBSSA – Thursday, April 21 at St. Dominic’s/Bracebridge

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One Comment

  1. Kevin Farthing says:
    April 8, 2016 at 7:38 am

    Go Matt! Go Tyler! Go team! Good luck!