ONONDAGA COUNTY –
Once more, the Cicero-North Syracuse and Liverpool boys tennis teams would meet one another Monday afternoon, a rematch of their April 28 battle won by the Northstars.
Prior to that, though, the Northstars and Warriors both would have matches rained out early last week – C-NS against first-place Fayetteville-Manlius, Liverpool against Baldwinsville.
When action resumed a day later, the Warriors found itself in a close battle with Auburn, but was able to edge the Maroons 4-3 to improve its overall record to 2-2.
Three points came from a singles sweep, where Justin Barrett handled Ryan Stechuckak 6-1, 6-2, Evan Miller won 6-4, 6-3 over Gabriel Volo and Cole Potrzeba worked past Brody Wagner 6-4, 6-1 as
Needing just one point in doubles, Liverpool got it from Aidan Hunter and Andrew Caimano, who in two sets worked past Tom Deming and Colby Wagner 6-2, 7-6 (7-5).
Rain also kept C-NS from facing East Syracuse Minoa on Wednesday – but it dried up by Friday, when the Northstars challenged Baldwinsville and lost, 6-1, to the Bees.
Preventing the shutout, Brady Petranchuk endured a first-set tie-breaker to beat Logan Bolton 7-6 (9-7), 6-0 in third singles, while Matt Jordan and Brandon Nguyen both lost in straight sets.
In doubles, Andrew George and Mike DeGroat lost, 6-4, 6-3, to Cameron Dougherty and Tyler Blum, with DeGroat also pairing with Timothy Mai during a 6-3, 6-2 defeat to Connor Tutor and Andrew Jung.
Liverpool faced ESM on Friday and handled the Spartans 6-1. Sweeping the doubles, the Warriors had Billy Balduf and James Welch handle Ari Oviedo and Noah Satterlee 6-1, 6-0, with John Ioannidis and Mason Pinchin beating Dan Krusse and Ayush Patel 6-3, 6-0.
Anthony Ranieri and Brad Ritter won 6-4, 6-4 over Jayce Domres and Joe Leveroni as Hunter and Caimano won 7-5, 6-1 over Jacob Harman and Donovan Randall.
Bryce Blanch lost in singles 6-0, 6-0 to ESM’s Josh Spilka, but Miller made up for it, beating Krish Patel 7-5, 6-1 as Potrzeba pushed past Luke Tumulty 6-0, 6-1.
C-NS made up the match with ESM on Saturday and also prevailed 6-1, with Jordan’s 6-4, 4-6, 6-0 win over Domres preserving a singles sweep started by straight-set wins from Dupell and Nguyen.
Pete Gill and Ryan Keil handled Jacob Harmon and Jacob McGuigan 6-1, 6-1, with Joe DeGroat and Tim Mai beating Oviedo and Luke Tumulty 6-3, 6-0 as George and Jackson Dufort won 6-0, 6-0 over Patel and Donovan Rndall.
