Titles for Three at UP Tennis Finals
October 4, 2012
One of this season’s MHSAA Upper Peninsula Division 1 girls tennis champions is used to finishing at the top. The other found itself in that favorable spot Wednesday for the first time in 25 years.
Kingsford and Negaunee split this season’s title, each scoring 14 points at Marquette High School. The Finals win was the first for Kingsford since the end of a four-year championship run in 2009. Negaunee celebrated its first championship since winning Class C-D in 1987, and after just missing with a runner-up finish in 2010.
Kingsford advanced players into all four singles and two doubles championship matches, with No. 4 singles Santina Bianco and No. 2 doubles Janay Walters and Ali VanRemortel claiming their flights. Negaunee advanced to five championship matches and had three winners – Allison Carlson at No. 2 singles, Kayla Hakala at No. 3 and Kylee Taavola and Jordyn LaFreniere at No. 3 doubles.
Escanaba senior Codi Jenshak won her second-straight championship at No. 1 singles, and third MHSAA singles title overall, with a 6-1, 6-2 victory over Kingsford’s Sam Fleming. Jenshak also defeated Fleming in the 2011 championship match.
Her Escanaba teammates Braedyn Bosilovatz and Cathryn Wood won the No. 1 doubles championship.
Click for full championship match results and semifinalists.
Division 2 at Ishpeming Westwood
Westwood won its fourth straight MHSAA championship and fifth in six seasons, scoring 16 points to edge runner-up Iron Mountain by two.
The Patriots won four flights, led at No. 1 doubles by Kara Harrington and Alexis Forchini, who won at No. 3 in 2011. Taryn Moyle and Katie Rankinen won at No. 2 and Rachel Anderson and Shana Caliguri won at No. 4. Courtney Beauchamp won the team’s lone singles championship, at No. 4.
Iron River West Iron County’s Kylee Erickson repeated as the No. 1 singles champion, beating Westwood’s Sarah Massie in the final for the second straight season.
Performance of the Week: Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood's Chloe Qin
May 30, 2025
Chloe Qin ♦ Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood
Senior ♦ Tennis
The Cranes No. 1 singles player received the top seed in her flight for this weekend's Lower Peninsula Division 3 Finals, coming off a Regional championship she clinched by defeating last season's Division 3 No. 1 singles champion Sophia Grzesiak of Detroit Country Day 6-3, 6-2. Qin entered Friday's first round with an 18-1 record this season.
Qin returned to high school tennis this spring after previously playing as a freshman, when she teamed up with then-senior Gaby Levine to finish Division 3 Finals runner-up at No. 1 doubles. Cranbrook entered this weekend ranked No. 1 in Division 3 as a team and seeking its third Finals championship over the last four seasons after finishing runner-up to Country Day last year. Qin will continue her academic and tennis careers at Brown University in Rhode Island and is interested in studying cognitive neuroscience on a pre-medical track.
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