Unseeded doubles teams conquer Jason Isaacs Memorial tourney

Upsets eventually hit the Jason Isaacs Memorial Junior Doubles Championship hard over the weekend.

In both the boys’ and girls’ 18-year-old divisions, an unseeded team knocked off the top three seeds in successive matches to win the tournament title at Blairwood Tennis and Fitness Club.

Unseeded Floyd Central High School teammates Joseph Boesing and Craig Kirchgessner - who are veterans of two Indiana state finals - finished their run to the boys’ title with a 6-3, 4-6, 1-0 (7) win over the No. 1 tandem of South Oldham’s Eric Quigley and Trinity’s Robert Stedman on Sunday.

Quigley is both the defending Kentucky high school state champion in singles and the reigning USTA Kentucky Junior Player of the Year.

No less impressive were Shannon Hartmann and Brooke Helms, an unseeded pair that downed No. 1-seeded Christian Academy stars Lindsey and Emily Mallory 2-6, 7-6 (3), 7-6 (12) on Sunday. The Mallory sisters reached the Kentucky high school doubles final last year.

Order prevailed elsewhere, as all but one of the top seeds in the other six divisions won: Maks Gold and Daniel Mark (boys’ 16s); Brett Johnson and Grant Roberts (boys’ 14s); Paul Eager and Hunter Mills (boys’ 12s); Kelsey Fulkerson and Caroline Kerrick (girls’ 16s); Lauren Doll and Samantha Maddox (girls’ 14s); and Mackenzie Eichengreen and Hannah Newstadt (girls’ 12s).

Full results for the tournament, which drew 232 participants, can be found here.