Ashland doubles partners Rox Rogers and Kai Weston will shoot for a tennis state championship today after winning their semifinal match Friday at Portland Tennis Center.

The top-seeded pairing topped Summit's Peter Rutherford and Javier Camino, 7-6 (5), 6-2, to reach the final stage.

In the quarterfinals, the Ashland sophomore and senior defeated Bend's Aaron Banquer-Glenn and Nicolas Campbell, 7-5, 6-3.

Rogers and Weston will take on La Salle Prep's unseeded Thomas Foy and Nicolas Hey in the final at Tualatin Hills Tennis Center in Beaverton.

In singles, Dallas' Thomas Gniadecki beat Ashland's Mischa Kirby, 6-2, 7-5, in the quarterfinals.

On the girls side, Summit's Sonja Kinney and Sabryna Adrianson downed Ashland's Lilli Patton and Hanna Barchet, 8-4, in the consolation quarterfinals.

Prep Baseball

Peyton Fuller tossed a two-hit shutout to lead Ashland past Lebanon 4-0 in a Class 5A play-in game Friday at North Mountain Park.

Fuller struck out nine and walked three in seven innings for the Grizzlies (18-8), who will host a first-round game on Wednesday.

Matt O’Donnell’s run-scoring triple in the second inning was all the Grizzlies needed. O’Donnell drove in another run on a fielder's choice grounder in the sixth and Jesse Carroll had an RBI single in the fifth.

The Grizzlies’ Kellar Edwards went 2-for-2 and scored a run.

Lebanon pitcher Dylan Williams took the loss after surrendering four runs, two earned, on six hits in six innings. He struck out six and walked one.

The visiting Warriors (8-19) had runners on second and third with two outs in the third, but Fuller escaped unscathed by striking out No. 2 hitter Issac Garber on three pitches.

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Williams and Harrison; Fuller and Hamik. W — Fuller. L — Williams. 3B — A: O’Donnell.

Prep Track & Field

At Eugene, Ashland senior thrower Dominic Meads placed sixth in the discus and 12th in the shot put to lead the Grizzlies in the first day of the OSAA Class 5A state meet Friday at Hayward Field.

Also for Ashland, senior Mel Elshalom placed ninth in the boys’ long jump, junior Myla Norvell was 11th in the girls’ javelin and freshman Hazel Richards 11th in the girls’ 3,000.

Meads hit 158 feet, 1 inch on his first throw. Sebastian Barajas, a senior from Hood River Valley, won the event with a throw of 199-10.

Elshalom leaped 20-11 ½ , Norvell threw the javelin 105-00 and Richards crossed the finish line in the 3,000 in 11 minutes, 12.13 seconds.