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SALT LAKE CITY — It's been a long time and for Dixie High's boys tennis team, it may as well have been the first time.
Austin Beckstrom and Ari Fackrell took the first doubles title, and the Flyers snapped a 22-year championship drought with their first 4A boys tennis title since 2001 Saturday at Liberty Park.
Beckstrom and Fackrell defeated Snow Canyon's Braden Koch and Bryce Jensen, 7-5, 6-2, and Dixie used the depth of five semifinal bids and a runner-up finish by Gavin Bishop in third singles to hold off second-place Crimson Cliffs by two points.
The Mustangs finished with 40 points, one point better than third-place Ridgeline. Desert Hills and Green Canyon rounded out the top five.
6A boys tennis championships
Liberty Park, Salt Lake City
Team scoring
- Dixie, 42
- Crimson Cliffs, 40
- Ridgeline, 39
- Desert Hills, 22
- Green Canyon, 22
- Snow Canyon, 16
- Logan, 8
- Bear River, 4
- Pine View, 4
- Sky View, 4
- Cedar, 2
- Mountain Crest, 2
First singles
- Semifinals — Maxwell Miner, Crimson Cliffs, d. Luke Jolley, Dixie, 6-1, 6-3; Dillon Johnson, Ridgeline, d. Jaden Wittwer, Desert Hills, 6-0, 6-0.
- Championship — Miner, Crimson Cliffs, d. Johnson, Ridgeline, 0-6, 6-2, 6-0.
Second singles
- Semifinals — Adam Miner, Crimson Cliffs, d. Jackson Holman, Desert Hills, 6-2, 6-1; Thatcher Ellis, Ridgeline, d. Caleb Kroll, Dixie, 6-2, 6-1.
- Championship — Miner, Crimson Cliffs, d. Ellis, Ridgeline, 5-7, 6-2, 6-1.
Third singles
- Semifinals — Gavin Bishop, Dixie, d. Nathan Bentley, Crimson Cliffs, 6-1, 5-7, 6-0; Davis Low, Ridgeline, d. Brexan Wittwer, Desert Hills, 6-0, 6-0.
- Championship — Low, Ridgeline, d. Bishop, Dixie, 6-0, 6-1.
First doubles
- Semifinals — Austin Beckstrom and Ari Fackrell, Dixie, d. Taggart McCullough and Kayson Reeder, Ridgeline, 6-0, 6-1; Braden Koch and Bryce Jensen, Snow Canyon, d. Jeffrey Purcell and William Gardner, Desert Hills, 6-4, 6-2.
- Championship — Beckstrom and Fackrell, Dixie, d. Koch and Jensen, Snow Canyon, 7-5, 6-2.
Second doubles
- Semifinals — Zach Crane and Carson Shakespear, Green Canyon, d. Bryce Christiansen and Andrew Ord, Snow Canyon, 6-3, 6-2; Garrett Bishop and Michael Winward, Dixie, d. Ty Durst and Chase Faldmo, Crimson Cliffs, 3-1 withdraw.
- Championship — Crane and Shakespear, Green Canyon, d. Bishop and Winward, Dixie, 1-6, 6-2, 7-6 (2).
