Midland Dow capped a remarkable season, taking their fourth straight high school state title, scoring 35 points over runner-up Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central with 23, and placing six flights in the finals, winning five.

Individual winners included Austin Woody at # 2 singles, which set a state record of 80 straight victories, 41 this year. Woody, accompanied by one of the biggest forehands in high school tennis, dominated  Rob Stevens, Portage Central 6-2, 6-3 to win the state championship.

Woody’s streak eclipses the previous standard of 60 set by former Grosse Pointe University Liggett standout and ATP professional Aaron Krickstein from 1981-82. It was Woody’s second individual state championship, having won at # 3 singles as a junior.

Top seeded Mark Gorte and Patrick Eschbach took the # 3 doubles title, stopping Amey Vrudula and Nico Finelli of Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central, 6-3,6-1. It was Gorte and Eshbach’s first individual state championship.

In other results, Dow’s David Goslin and Colin Angell at # 2 doubles lost the championship match, 6-4,6-4 to Zach Tayler and Griffin Neel, Birmingham Seaholm, while Dow’s #1 singles player, John Templeman went out in the semis to Davis Crocker, Kalamazoo, LoyNorrix, 6-3,6-4.

David Reed and Andrew Camp lost in a hard fought battle against Joey McClure and Matt Gebhardt, Grand Rapids Forest Hills, 4-6, 7-6(5), 7-6(6) in the semi finals of the #4 doubles flight.