The son of the Carlisle School boys basketball coach will meet the son of the Carlisle girls tennis coach today in the semifinals of the Virginia State Junior Match Play Championship.

Maybe it's worth clarifying that Jack Adkins and Dylan Jensen will be meeting in golf.

Adkins and Jensen, both representing Chatmoss Country Club in Martinsville, combined to knock the Roanoke contingent out of the tournament in quarterfinal action at Roanoke Country Club on Friday.

Adkins defeated giant-killing Ben Firebaugh 4 and 3; then, Jensen birdied the first extra hole for a 1-up victory over Jack Wilkes, the runner-up in this tournament last year.

In the bottom half of the draw, Mikey Moyers from Stanardsville kept alive his bid for a third straight VSGA Junior Match Play title by winning the 18th hole for a 1-up victory over Jake Mondy from Blacksburg.

Moyers' semifinal opponent is Zach Hall, who is from the small town of Burgess on the Northern Neck. Hall dispatched Nicholas Shedd of Williamsburg by a 3-and-2 count.

The semifinal matches are set to go off at 7:30 and 7:38 a.m., followed by a noon start for the final.

Jensen, for one, knows he will be around for the final, win or lose. If he doesn't win in the morning, he will volunteer to caddie for Adkins in the afternoon.

"We've been going to the same school since pre-school," said Adkins, who was in the eighth grade when he teamed with Jensen on the first of four conference championship teams.

Adkins did not know when he finished that he would be meeting Jensen in the semis. The Jensen-Wilkes match was still going on and Jensen trailed most of the way before pulling even with a par at No. 16.

"It'll be interesting," Jensen said. "We've been playing golf together just about every day since the second grade. When we made it [through qualifying] we joked about the possibility that we might meet."

Jensen's mother, Lisa, is the girls tennis coach at Carlisle. Adkins' father, Jeff, is the boys basketball coach. Lisa Jensen followed her son around the course Thursday, but Jeff Adkins had a conflict, so mother Kim stepped in.

"It was the first time my mom had ever seen me play," Adkins said. "She didn't get in the way or anything. I was very impressed."

Adkins, who has committed to Elon for the class of 2010, won the first three holes of his morning match but needed 19 holes to beat Landon Weis from Charlottesville. Adkins then won four of the first five holes against Firebaugh.

Adkins couldn't have been any more fatigued than Firebaugh, who was in a eight-hole playoff Wednesday before claiming the final spot in a 16-player field. His reward was a first-round matchup with top-seeded Matthew Ball, the qualifying medalist.

Firebaugh was 2-under- par in knocking off Ball in the morning, 3 and 2, but he wasn't nearly as sharp in the afternoon. He had been at the course for 12 hours on Wednesday, having arrived at 7:30 a.m., only to learn that rain had delayed his tee time till 12:30 p.m.

The second day of qualifying was shortened from 18 holes to nine holes, reducing Firebaugh's chances of making the match-play after an opening-round 76, but he responded with a hard-earned 35 to make the playoff.

"I didn't feel tired," said Firebaugh after losing to Adkins. "I made a lot of putts in the morning. I had a lot of energy. Confidence, too. The putts just didn't drop in the afternoon, but I think the top eight here make the Virginia-West Virginia matches, so that's a bonus."

Wilkes was 2 up going to the 12th hole against Jensen but never could deliver a knockout blow. Wilkes battled his tee ball down the stretch while Jensen kept an even tempo, prompting a comparison to Ernie Els from VSGA board member Mike Wise.

Mondy knew he was in for a tough match against Moyers, who is headed to Virginia Tech on a golf scholarship, and was up to the challenge.

Moyers nearly holed out his second shot at the par-4 18th before Mondy finally conceded.

"We both played really well," said Moyers, who changed clubs at No. 18 on the advice of his former William Monroe teammate and first-time caddy, Bubba Knight. "[Mondy] was one of the ones I was worried about in this tournament."