Jumping into another week of OHSL Liberty National division matches, the Skaneateles girls tennis team found complete success in last Monday’s match against Pulaski at Austin Park, putting together a 7-0 shutout of the Blue Devils.
Alex Ditch did not allow a game in her 6-0, 6-0 singles romp over Andrea Geer. It didn’t take much longer for Rachel Feeney to push past Delilah Mehallow 6-0, 6-1, while Erica Byrne worked through a tough first set, but beat Jennifer Lapp 6-3, 6-0.
The Lakers also rolled through each of the doubles matches in straight sets, starting with Angela Krause and Mary McNeil getting a 6-1, 6-1 win over Cerenity Geer and Alexis Bowen, and continuing with Hope Allyn and Lily Datz beating Matthews andSavannah Goodsell 6-0, 6-2.
Isabella Kroon, pairing with Hope Glowacki, rolled past Casey Lyne and Sarah McCray 6-0, 6-1, right ahead of Biver and Brinley Walawender putting up their own 6-1, 6-1 victory over Pulaski’s team of Carla Soules and Kiara Sperling.
Looking for its fifth win in a row, Skaneateles faced Phoenix on Wednesday and attained with a 6-1 romp over the Firebirds, Ditch needed three sets to get past Catherine Musumeci 7-5, 1-6, 6-3, and while Byrne lost to Gianna DeRoberts 6-4, 6-1, McNeil, playing singles, rolled past Brielle DeRoberts 6-0, 6-4.
None of the doubles matches posted any sort of problems. Feeney and Krause blanked Lauren Schmidt and Ashley Kenner-Carbonaro 6-0, 6-0, with Datz and Allyn handling Bryn Demong and Molly Thorn 6-3, 6-1. Isabella Kroon and Hope Glowacki got a 6-2, 6-0 win over Elissa Fordyce and Katelyn Carbonaro as Biver and Walawender won again, 6-2, 6-3, over Marissa Moore and Larissa Semanchuk-Enser.
To close this busy week, the first-place Lakers took on Chittenango Friday afternoon, and got close to another win, only to see the Bears claim a pair of three-set matches that made the difference in a 4-3 defeat.
McNeil got a singles point when she beat Jessie Gilbert 6-2, 6-4. Ditch trailed early, but rallied past Emma Bailey 4-6, 6-2, 6-2, and in a crucial singles match Byrne hung tough with Chittenango’s Kelly Gloo, but lost a 6-4, 4-6,6-4 verdict.
Moving to doubles, Biver and Walawender were successful, beating Meghan Pexton and Nadia Cannistra 6-3, but the Lakers never got that second point. Kroon and Glowacki lost, 6-1, 6-1, to Allie Choi and Coralee Everett, with Datz and Allyn unable to claim a long second-set tie-breaker against Rachel Cleary and Mya Streiff in a 6-2, 7-6 (11-9) decision.
So it all depended on first doubles, where Krause and Feeney won a first-set tie-breaker over Shannon Koegel and Anna Norman, yet could not follow up that effort as Koegel and Norman went on to take a 6-7 (7-4), 6-1, 6-4 decision.
The loss dropped Skaneateles to 7-2 overall, 6-1 in the OHSL Liberty division, still good for first place as it awaited a Wednesday rematch with Pulaski and hosts Jordan-Elbridge on Friday.
