ASHEBORO — Wheatmore sophomore Silas Jessup won the Piedmont Athletic Conference championship in boys’ tennis for the second year in a row in singles.
He topped Southwestern Randolph’s Rodolfo Fiscal by 6-1, 6-0 in the final earlier this week at Asheboro Memorial Park.
Jessup earlier defeated Randleman’s Malaqui Swift 6-0, 6-0 and handled Providence Grove’s Micah Oates 6-0, 6-0.
Fiscal, who moved up from a third-place spot last year, advanced to the final by ousting two teammates. There was a 6-0, 6-0 triumph against Jonathan Spivey in the quarterfinals and a 6-4, 1-6 (11-9) defeat of Braydon Tyl in the semifinals.
Wheatmore’s doubles tandem of Matthew Davis and Avery Plummer won the title by defeating Trinity’s Trey Groves and Kwame Mathole by 6-3, 6-2 in the final. Mathole was part of a runner-up pairing for the second year in a row.
Davis / Plummer beat Randleman’s Ramiro Vences and Dylan Diaz 8-2 in the semifinal.
