![]() In the quarterfinals, Dahlsten and Deutschendorf downed Dylan Duff and Dante Franco of Scott Community 6-1, 6-1. That’s not the way you want to end it.”ĭahlsten and Deutschendorf opened the tournament with a first-round bye, followed by a win over Rahul Madhaven and Robby Rasberry of Wichita Collegiate 6-0, 6-1. We left some points on the court in the first set. Micah and Asher played exceptionally well, especially in the last two weeks. “It’s a little anticlimactic on the state championship match,” Hesston coach Mark Dahlsten said. Classical School of Wichita was fourth at 18 and Wichita Trinity Academy was fifth at 17. Kansas City Christian won the team title with 41 points, followed by three-time defending champion Wichita Collegiate at 36 and Hesston in third at 22. Hesston finished third as a team for the third straight year. But I think I’ll have a better chance in singles.” “If I play doubles, I’ll have a pretty good partner. “I think I’m probably go to singles,” Deutschendorf said. Micah Dahlsten said he’ll be attending John Brown University and studying digital cinema, but won’t play sports there.ĭeutschendorf said he’s not sure what the next two years in tennis will bring. “We might be able to do it in golf too,” Deutschendorf said. “To win it in basketball and tennis, that’s super exciting.” “That helped with our energy.”īoth Micah Dahlsten and Deutschendorf were members of the Hesston basketball team, which won the state title back in March. “I started feeling a little more confident on our serves,” Deutschendorf said. “But we came out firing in that first set.” The only thing that went against the Hesston pair was 12 double faults, 10 in the first set. We started to click the week before regionals.” The first year, and even at the beginning of this year, we were working out some kinks, but we’ve been playing our best tennis at the end. “It’s been so fun to have a partner for two years. “It’s been a two-year thing,” Micah Dahlsten said. Micah Dahlsten was third in doubles as a sophomore paired with Cole Deutschendorf, Asher’s brother. It was the first state title for the Hesston pair, who finished third last season. “I needed to serve it out pretty quick, so we went right at them.” “I started to feel the bloody nose towards the end of the first set at like 4-3,” Deutschendorf said. Then we just started to click.”ĭeutschendorf had to take a short break in the first set because of a bloody nose and was forced to resume play wearing gauze in his nose to stop the bleeding. “I would have rather played out the whole thing,” Deutschendorf said. At the very end of the match, Vander Ark was covering the entire court.” “They had the momentum (in the second set). We knew we had the ability to play them and beat them. We lost to them once in a tie-breaker and we lost to them at the (Wichita Collegiate) Tournament of Champions. “We lost to them earlier in the year, so we were pumped to play them,” Micah Dahlsten said. With the ninth game of the second set tied at deuce, Newman collapsed and couldn’t continue, forcing the KCC team to retire. The Swather duo won the next two games as Newman continues to struggle. Vander Ark was one half of last year’s state doubles team. In the finals against James Vander Ark and Jackson Newman of Kansas City Christian, Micah Dahsten and Deutschendorf won the first set 6-3, but fell behind 4-2 in the second set when Newman had a lengthy delay because of apparent muscle cramps. HESSTON - Hesston High School senior Micah Dahlsten and sophomore Asher Deutschendorf got the state doubles title they were aiming for, but not in the way they were hoping. Hesston finishes third in coach’s final season Hesston High School senior Micah Dahlsten competes in doubles play Friday at the Class 3-2-1A state tournament at the Wulz Riverside Tennis Center in Wichita. ![]()
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