A single point in one singles match was all the Cazenovia boys tennis team needed to turn things around against Skaneateles.
By doing this in last Thursday’s OHSL Liberty division showdown, Cazenovia claimed the latest Laker showdown with Skaneateles, prevailing by the same 3-2 margin by which it lost when the two sides first met this season on April 13.
As he usually does, Nate Romig set the tone in first singles, sweeping Ethan Weldon 6-0, 6-0. Mason Stehle locked up another point with a 6-4, 6-1 win over Dan Judge, while Fabian Grimm was pushed to a second-set tie-breaker, but still finished off Matt Benson 6-2, 7-6 (8-6).
Skaneateles still claimed both of the doubles points, with Connor Jones and Anthony Panasci rallying from a terrible start to beat Nick Bama and Orson Sproule 1-6, 6-4, 6-3. In the other doubles match, Ryan Bailey and Malcolom Lombardi paired up to beat Brady Flannery and Tim Kempton 6-1, 6-4.
Cazenovia was supposed to play again on Friday against Marcellus, but afternoon rains forced yet another postponement.
When Chittenango returned to action last Tuesday afternoon, it had to do so against unbeaten Jamesville-DeWitt, who did not show much mercy while dismissing the Bears by a 7-0 margin.
Of the four singles matches, Aaron Norman and Zed Weigand did not earn a game, with Sean Austin falling to Tyler Glowaki 6-1, 6-0 and Chase Gordon falling to Harshal Nanavati 6-0, 6-1. In doubles, the teams of Keoni Saturnie-Zach Falkenburg, Matt Lanphear-Holden Lalor and Trevor Crystal-Devin Hodges were all shut out.
It all turned around on Thursday, when the Bears rolled past East Syracuse Minoa 6-1 on the strength of a singles sweep that Hodges preserved with a 6-2, 6-7 (7-5), 6-4 victory over the Spartans’ Brandon Jones.
Elsewhere in singles, Norman routed Ben Houseman 6-1, 6-0, while Mike Ackerman defeated Nan Nguyen 6-1, 6-2 and Falkenburg gained a 6-3, 7-5 victory over John Kipping. Chittenango kept it up in doubles, too, with Saturnie and Sean Austin beating Kelvin Cheng and Bryant Pham 6-1, 7-6 (7-5) as Gordon and Lalor handled Jack Callahan and David Demazure 6-0, 6-2.
