Lees and Ringstad both went 4-0 in round-robin play and didn’t lose a set on the way to titles in the boys age 14 and boys 18 singles, respectively.
Runner-up honors were closely contested in both age groups with Jordon Friend edging Phillip Martinez 6-1, 7-6 (3) to finish 3-1 and claim second place in the boys 18 division.
In the boys 14 division, James Kardash defeated Teryl Lemay 6-1, 6-4 to take the second spot with a 3-1 record.
The annual tournament is named for Sam Woodke, in appreciation for his many years of support through Fairbanks Youth Sports.
The Fairbanks Tennis Associations Kids Free Tennis clinics and other youth tennis programs flourished due to Woodke’s support.
Complete tournament results were published in Tuesday’s Daily News-Miner.
Special Olympics
Alaska teams coached by Mary Bunten of Fairbanks dominated the 2010 Special Olympics National Summer Games unified bocce competition July 18-23 in Lincoln, Neb.
The team of Athena Gabor and Kathy Williams of Ketchikan earned the gold medal in the doubles event, while Alex Cain and Woody Woodland of Fairbanks nabbed the silver medal.
Cain, Woodland, Gabor and Williams also teamed up to claim silver in the team competition.
“Unified sports brings together people together and provides the public direct opportunities to experience first-hand the capabilities and courage of Special Olympics athletes,” Jim Balamaci, Special Olympics Alaska president/CEO, said in a press release.
Joe Pratt and Rob Enderson of Wasilla earned a bronze medal in unified golf event. The team is coached by Todd Weaver.
Run for Relief
A new 5-kilometer running race has been added to the Running Club North calendar in August.
The Run for Relief, a fundraiser for the non-porofit agency Partners, a global organization helping Burma refugees on the Thailand-Burma border, is scheduled for
2 p.m. Aug. 8 at Pioneer Park.
Runners and walkers can register on the day of the race or they can register early at Beaver Sports.
For more information, call Kathy Petersen at 388-6830.
Flight eliminated
The Alaska Flight basketball teams competing in the Double Pump Best of the Summer Tournament in Anaheim, Calif., were eliminated Thursday afternoon.
The age 17 and under team suffered a tough 53-50 loss to the Las Vegas Prospects. The Alaska all-star team had two chances to tie the game in the final 30 seconds, but couldn’t get 3-pointers to fall through the hoop, according to coach Keenan Hollister.
Jesse Ward of North Pole and Ryden Hines of Dimond had 12 points apiece for the Flight. Hines also pulled down 10 rebounds.
The 16U squad lost its final pool play game 63-45 a against Aim High. Lathrop’s Everett Green led the offense with 10 points and North Pole’s Michael Hale grabbed 10 rebounds.
Juneau’s Tony Yadao had six points and five assists.
The 16U Flight were knocked out in the first game of bracket play, suffering a 68-43 loss to the I Can All-Stars. Yadao had 12 points, while Hale contributed eight points and eight rebounds. Cordova’s Keith Nolan added eight points.
“Even though we didn’t win many games, we accomplished our goals,” Hollister said. “We got to play against some great competition and the kids were exposed to a lot of different college coaches.”
Midnight Sun Martial Arts
Academy
The United States brought home 52 medals from the 2010 International TaeKwon-Do Federation World Championships held in Cheongju, South Korea July 4-8. The Alaskan representatives of Team USA, from the Midnight Sun Martial Arts Academy in Fairbanks, were responsible for 24 of those medals.
Brianna Hernandez and Amanda Hurben in the junior female division won a total of seven medals. Hernandez finished with bronze in power breaking and gold in team power breaking. Hurben won silver medals in patterns, sparring and power breaking. She also brought home the bronze medal in specialty breaking and the gold power breaking medal.
Three members of the junior male division, Nicholas Woolf, Johnnie Norton and Brandon Fears placed in competition. Woolf won bronze in patterns, team sparring and power breaking; silver in sparring and team patterns; and gold in team specialty breaking.
Norton won a medal of every kind, gold in team specialty breaking, silver in team patterns and bronze in team power breaking.
Fears brought home the most gold medals for the group from Fairbanks. He received gold in patterns, specialty breaking and team specialty breaking. He also brought home the silver team patterns medal and a bronze in team power breaking. In addition, Fears was named the Overall Junior Male Competitor of the championships.
Bianca Zuckerman and Tim Hasbrouck were amongst the adult female and male competitors. Zuckerman brought home the silver medal in patterns, and Hasbrouck received gold in men’s team power breaking and gold in men’s team specialty breaking.
Heidi Hurben, Jo Zuckerman and Jeff Hurben competed in the senior female and senior male categories. HeidHurben brought home bronze in patterns and power breaking and gold in women’s team power breaking. Jo Zuckerman finished with a bronze medal in patterns. Jeff Hurben won silver in sparring and bronze in patterns.
World Tang Soo Do Karate Master Larry Wick of the Fairbanks World Tang Soo Do Karate School took 13 of his students to Greensborough, N.C.’ July 15-17 for The World Tang Soo Do Association Bi-annual World Championships.
More than 1,600 athletes attended this year’s competition in three different divisions: forms, sparring and weapons.
Among the adult women second and third-degree black belts, Kelcie Meeks brought home two bronze medals, one in forms and one in sparring. Danielle Meeks finished with a bronze medal in weapons.
In the teen male second and third-degree black belts, Quinn Evenson and Jacob Williams brought home bronze and gold medals in forms, respectively. Williams also received the bronze in weapons.
Sunnie Gebhardt and Dolma Ombadykow won medals in the teen female second and third-degree black belt division. Gebhardt brought home a medal of every kind: gold in sparring, silver in forms, bronze in weapons. Ombadykow received the bronze medal in forms.
Ashland Williams, a first-degree black belt in the teen female division, won bronze in forms.
Jaren Beckley and Ceili Brown placed in the youth male and female green belts divisions. Beckley won bronze in forms, as did Brown.
In the Tiny Tigers division, Jacob Beckley got a competition medal for forms, and he won his sparring match.
Contact the News-Miner sports department at 459-7581.
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