The 2024 AIA Badminton State Championships are underway, with singles and doubles competition taking place this past weekend and the team tournament beginning Monday in Division I and II and concluding on Nov. 2 Here are first-round matches for the team tournament, along with team seedings and regular season records. All opening-round matches take place Monday at 4 p.m., at the higher-seed’s home court. Winners advance to the quarterfinals on Tuesday. Also listed are singles and doubles champions.
DIVISION 1 TEAMS
No. 16 Liberty (6-8) at No. 1 Hamilton (14-0)
No. 9 Pinnacle (9-5) at No. 8 Basha (8-5)
No. 12 Highland (10-4) at No. 5 Perry (10-4)
No. 13 Mesa Mountain View (Mesa) (12-2) at No. 4 Xavier Prep (11-3)
No. 14 Westwood (8-6) at No. 3 Desert Vista (13-1)
No. 11 Sandra Day O’Connor (9-5) at No. 6 Mountain Ridge (9-4)
No. 10 Red Mountain (8-6) at No. 7 Chandler (9-5)
No. 15 Mesa (7-7) at No. 2 Sunnyslope (13-1)
DIVISION 2 TEAMS
No. 16 Shadow Mountain (8-6) at No. 1 Chaparral (13-1)
No. 9 Raymond S. Kellis (10-4) at No. 8 Paradise Valley (9-5)
No. 12 Greenway (10-4) at No. 5 Sunrise Mountain (11-3)
No. 13 Combs (9-4) at No. 4 Prescott (13-1) at Prescott Preparatory.
No. 14 Horizon (7-7) at No. 3 AZ College Prep (12-1)
No. 11b Thunderbird (9-5) at No. 6 Verrado (12-2)
No. 10 Campo Verde (9-4) at No. 7 Mesquite (10-4)
No. 15 Deer Valley (7-7) at No. 2 Ironwood (12-2)
DIVISION I SINGLES/DOUBLES FINALS
Singles championship match: No. 1 seed Lekha Shrivastava of Desert Vista defeated No. 2 seed Nihira Sane of Hamilton 21-6, 19-21, 21-16.
Doubles championship match: No. 3 seeds Payton Crank and Paige Kroening of Pinnacle defeated No. 1 seeds Shreya Deshpande and Katheryn Yi of Hamilton 15-21, 21-19, 21-18.
DIVISION II SINGLES/DOUBLES FINALS
Singles championship match: No. 1 seed Hadley Huffman of Chaparral defeated No. 2 Madison Nguyen of Ironwood 21-11, 21-19.
Doubles championship match: No. 1 seeds Sasha Tijore and Alyssa Ridgley of Ironwood defeated unseeded Sophia Tijore and Mariyah Peru-Ray of Ironwood 19-21, 21-14, 21-11.
UNIFIED FINAL
Mesa High’s Carlos Otero and Manuel Ortiz def. Sunrise Mountain’s Payton Sweeny and Trevor Collette in three games.
(Results are from the Arizona Interscholastic Association).
This article originally appeared on Arizona Republic: AZ HS Badminton State Championship begins this weekend
