22nd Annual SMASH BASH BADMINTON DOUBLES TOURNAMENT

Sep 6, AZBC, Mesa...

The 22nd Annual SMASH BASH BADMINTON DOUBLES TOURNAMENT included exciting matches in Women's Doubles, Men's Doubles and Mixed Doubles, and a special presentation of the "Hank Anderssohn Memorial Eagle Award" to long time high school badminton coaches Nancy Funari and Lois Emshoff.

Coach Funari (on the left in the photo above) of Carl Hayden High School coached from 1965 - 2001 until she retired! Coach Lois Emshoff could not make the presentation at the last minute, but she continues to coach into her 50th year at Chandler High School!!! Both coaches have made invaluable contributions to the badminton community in Arizona through all these years-- Thank you Nancy and Lois! The Women's Doubles featured champions Theo and Kiyoko Hashimoto and the Men's Doubles champions Steve and Seigo Hashimoto. Kiyoko also teamed with Art Solo for the Mixed Doubles championship!

There were some amazingly exciting matches in each event, including two consecutive 3-game match wins for WD finalists Chandler Begay and Nga Le; a 3rd game, 23-21 win for Art Solo and Kiyoko Hashimoto over the #1 seeded team of Avi Manidanna and Priya Nair in the Mixed Doubles semis; and a 3-game thriller in the MD finals, with Steve and Seigo Hashimoto prevailing over Naren Koka and Doug Towne, 21-19, 20-22, 26-24 in one of the closest matches in recent AZ tournament history.

FINAL RESULTS: WD-1: Hashimoto/Hashimoto def. Begay/Le, 21-15, 21-14; WD-2: Nair/Nam def. Mee/Singarajah, 21-16, 21-16; WD-3: Nieves/Weldon def. Coria/Valdez, 21-13, 21-12; WD-4: Chaisson/Qindeel def. Bracken/Bracken, 23-21, 15-21, 21-15. MD-1: Hashimoto/Hashimoto def. Koka/Towne, 21-19, 20-22, 26-24; MD-2: Lim/Pariva def. Ashani/Hartojo, 21-16, 18-21, 21-15; MD-3: Goettl/Kommasandra def. Glazeski/Singarajah, 18-21, 21-14, 21-16. MX-1: Solo/Hashimoto def. Hashimoto/Hashimoto, 21-17, 21-18; MX-2: Hashimoto/Yuan def. Hartojo/Nam, 21-17, 21-15; MX-3: Singarajah/Mee def. Mee/Singarajah, 21-2, 14-21, 21-16; MX-4: Shrikant/Shrikant def. Kommasandra/Scheeland, 21-19, 22-20.