Oregonlive.com 5A top 10 preseason football poll:
1 Sherwood
2 West Albany
3 Marist
4 Jefferson
5 Crescent Valley
6 Mountain View
7 Bend
8 Churchill
9 Hermiston
10 Corvallis

SINGLES
Alex Rovello, Cleveland – 4-time state singles title. The face and name of Oregon state tennis for the past four years.
Chris Wiechert, Churchill – Two-time singles runner-up, two-time 3rd place finisher, led his team to two team titles.
Stuart Tierney, Glencoe – In three years, two runner-ups and a 3rd.
Paxton Deuel, Summit – In one year of playing singles finished fourth, losing to Wiechert and Tierney in the most loaded singles draw in years.

ALSO: Michael Baumgartner, West Albany; Matt Baumgartner, West Albany; Chase Thomet, Churchill.

DOUBLES
Alex Walentin/Cody Kohlmoos, Summit – The original 5A doubles champions. Didn’t lose their serve in the entire state tournament.
Adam Krull/Paxton Deuel, Summit – The only known all-freshman team to win a state doubles championship in Oregon history. Beat their teammates Guyer/Walsh in the state finals.
Josh Guyer/Tyler Walsh, Summit – 2008 state champions and 2009 state runner-ups. The only 5A team to reach two state finals.
Connor Horne/Matt Walker, Summit – Dominated the 2010 state tournament.

ALSO: Robbie Edwards/Dexter Hoang, Century; Carl Brehm/Chase Thomet, Churchill; Riley Tronson/Ryan Coe, Mountain View; Dustin Borst/Alex Ordeman, West Albany;

Here are a few of the singles players to watch in the upcoming weeks of districts and state:

6A
THREE RIVERS
Zhenya Pereverzin 12 Clackamas – 3-time defending state singles champion
Ian Risenhoover West Linn
Scott Goldner 10 Lake Oswego

PIL
Brent Chin 10 Grant – Consolation champion @ 2009 6A state to tournament.

CVC
Brent Wheeler Sprague

METRO
Chad Chaiyabutr 11 Southridge
Alen Suklje 12 Beaverton
Nick Biggi 10 Jesuit
Peder Gram 11 Jesuit

5A
INTERMOUNTAIN CONFERENCE
Paxton Deuel 10 Summit
Jeff Windsor 11 Bend
Trevor Brown 11 Crook County

SD5
Chris Wiechert 12 Churchill
Jon Massie 11 Marshfield

PIL
Alex Rovello 12 Cleveland
Mason Browning 10 Cleveland

SD2
Stuart Tierney 11 Glencoe

Summit is playing in the North Medford Boys Tennis Tournament this Friday and Saturday @ North Medford High School. The 10-team tournament is the biggest boys touney in the state of Oregon. Competing are:
Ashland (5A)
Barlow (6A)
Churchill (5A)
Corvallis (5A)
Marshfield (5A)
Newberg (6A)
North Medford (6A)
South Eugene (6A)
South Medford (6A)
Summit (5A)

Check back for updates on the tournament.

Summit had its dual match win streak snapped @ 24 matches, when the Storm lost to Hermiston and Churchill this past weekend @ the Athletic Club of Bend.

1st – Hermiston 4-0
2nd – Churchill 2-2
2nd – Summit 2-2
2nd – Bend 2-2
5th – Mountain View 0-4

The Athletic Club of Bend is hosting the Summit boys tennis Invitational Tournament this Friday and Saturday. Jason Quigley and all at the ACB are huge supporters of junior tennis in Central Oregon and are very generous to allow Bend, Mountain View and Summit to use the facilities for this fun and very competitive event. It’s a 5-team tournament featuring defending Class 5A state champion Summit and the 2007/2008 Class 5A state champions Churchill of Eugene.

Here is the schedule of play:
Friday
1 pm – Bend vs Hermiston
1 pm – Mountain View vs Churchill
3:30 pm – Summit vs Mountain View
3:30 pm – Bend vs Churchill
6 pm – Summit vs Hermiston

Saturday
9 am – Mountain View vs Bend
9 am – Churchill vs Hermiston
11:30 am – Bend vs Summit
11:30 am – Mountain View vs Hermiston
2 pm – Summit vs Churchill

The Tournament features some of the top Class 5A boys tennis players in the state:
• Chris Wiechert, 12, Churchill (2nd place state 2009 singles)
• Paxton Deuel, 10, Summit (1st place state 2009 doubles)
• Conor Hegewald, 12, Summit (state singles qualifier)
• Jeff Windsor, 11, Bend (state singles qualifier)
• Matt Walker, 12, Churchill (consolation state champion 2009 doubles)
• Connor Horne, 10, Churchill (state singles qualifier)