With just two points dropped all season, the Fayetteville-Manlius girls tennis team was inching closer to yet another undefeated run through the CNY Counties League.
The Hornets met Liverpool last Monday and claimed another 7-0 verdict, though it took Maggie Bonomo rallying in first singles to erase Katelyn Nguyen’s early lead and claim a 4-6, 6-1, 6-3 decision.
By contrast, Katerina Atallah, normally Bonomo’s doubles partner, blanked Julie Schewe 6-0, 6-0, with Anna Manta getting a 6-1, 7-5 win over Erin Chambrone. Meanwhile, singles players Kristina Liu and Patrice Calancie took a doubles turn and got their own 6-0, 6-0 win over Megan Blake and Julie Nguyen as the teams of Diana Polovick-Keara Polovick, Gretchen Ayoub-Martha Welker and RachelLiu-Abby Charlamb also won in two sets.
A day later, F-M met West Genesee, the first of two matches against the Wildcats in a seven-day span, and won a 7-0 shutout as Bonomo again played singles and routed Anastasia Mello 6-0, 6-0 as Keara Polovick beat Abigail Thurston 6-0, 6-2 and Manta topped Thi Tran 6-0, 6-1.
To preserve that shutout, Ayoub and Welker needed to rally in doubles for a 2-6, 6-4, 6-2 victory over Danielle Bertelli and Phoebe Nelson. Atallah and Calancie paired up to beat Meghan Mello and Katie Viau 6-3, 6-3 as Liu and Diane Polovick beat Lauren Ferris and Andrea Wierbinski 6-2, 6-0. Charlamb and Rachel Liu had a 6-0, 6-2 win over Angelina Llanos and Andrea Andreeva.
F-M then blanked Cicero-North Syracuse 7-0 on Wednesday for its third win in as many days. Manta won, 6-2, 6-2, over Karrah Savage as part of a singles sweep where Calancie beat Breanna Melfi 6-2, 6-0 and Kristina Liu beat Ava Breitbeck 6-1, 6-0.
The Polovick sisters trailed early in doubles, but turned it around to beat Brenna Duffy and Megan Tryniski 4-6, 6-1, 6-4, as Atallah and Bonomo were back together to handle Hannah Costello and Madison Murphy 6-1, 6-0. The teams of Ayoub-Welker and Rachel Liu-Cassie Wojtasiewicz both won in two sets.
In Friday’s 7-0 shutout of Syracuse West, F-M featured Rachel Liu taking a singles turn and handling Kyaw Kyaw 6-0, 6-1 as Kristina Liu won 6-0, 6-0 over Kayla Pagano, plus Keara Polovick beat Kelsey Lent-Moore 6-1, 6-0. The doubles teams of Atallah-Bonomo, Ayoub-Welker and Noni Unobagha-Erin Wiggins did not lose a game in any of their three matches as Mimi Liu and Uri Choi earned a point and also won in straight sets.
Christian Brothers Academy kept its mark perfect, too, starting with last Monday afternoon’s 7-0 shutout of the Mexico Tigers, its eighth straight win. Grace DelPino had a 6-0, 6-0 win over Skylar Holt to start singles play as Mikayla Santulli handled Kim Haegerty 6-0, 6-0 and Anna Sasser also won in two sets.
In doubles, Alison Croucher and Rena Steele survived a 6-7, 7-5, 6-0 battle with Mexico’s Emily Blunt and Kim Myers, but the teams of Grace Coyne-Aubrey Mills and Sloane Nicoletti Watson-Karen Simone won in two sets, with Analisa DeRoberts and Mary Kilmartin claiming a forfeit.
Handling East Syracuse Minoa a day later, CBA’s 7-0 shutout included DelPino beating Kim Phan 6-2, 7-5 as Calista Albring topped Amber Unislawski 6-2, 6-3. Nicoletti-Watson and Strott beat Noelle Zesky and Natalie Binion 6-3, 6-3 in the closest doubles match as Simone and Isabella Mead beat Robin Walters and Emily Moziak 6-0, 6-4.
CBA handled Homer 6-1 on Thursday, for though Rati Saini lost, 7-5, 6-4, to Catarina Kurman, Santulli handled Rachel Crompton 6-2, 7-5, and DelPino blanked Brook White 6-0, 6-0. The Brothers did not drop a set in doubles against the Trojans, though Nicoletti-Watson and Strott had to work hard to beat Tessa Brown and Aliza Willsey 6-3, 7-5.
Later in the week, ESM took a 5-2 defeat to Central Square. Zesky won, 6-1, 3-6, 10-8, over Victoria Tyrrell in singles, while Walters and Moziak prevailed in doubles over Maddie Haley and Savannah Todd 6-2, 6-4 as Pham lost a 6-1, 6-1 singles match to Erin McCarthy.
Jamesville-DeWitt won a 6-1 decision over Fulton last Tuesday, led by a singles sweep. Anna Sofia Hege beat Katie Distin 6-2, 6-3, while Margaret Frank routed Hailey Smith 6-1, 6-0 as Olivia DeHoog blanked Megan Guernsey 6-0, 6-0.
Three more points came from doubles, where Maya Pollock and Jungyun Kim paired up to stop Dierdre Murphy and Kaitlynn Ryan 6-0, 6-1. Katie Tzizanis and Natalie Alweis roared past Caitlyn McAfee and Gabriella Bailey 6-1, 6-0 as Sara Gow and Inka Gajri had a 6-1, 6-2 victory over Ariel Stacy and Janeda Vasquez.
Two days later, the Red Rams beat ESM 6-1, for though Pham routed Hege 6-1, 6-0, J-D took care of the rest of the matches as DeHoog shut out Woodson Maddy 6-0, 6-0 and Frank topped Amber Unislawski 6-3, 6-0. In the closets doubles match, Alweis and Tzizanis beat Walters and Shejia Hujdur 6-3, 6-2.
Manlius-Pebble Hill returned last Monday from a week’s rest (it had lost 4-3 to Marcellus on Sept. 12) and blanked Jordan-Elbridge 7-0, with Grace Morrow setting the pace in singles as she topped Marissa Malvaso 6-1, 6-0.
Annie Weiss handled Kayla Corgnell 6-0, 6-0 as Parmees Fazeli tore past Toni Malvaso 6-2, 6-0. The doubles teams of Lily Grenis-Genevieve Morrow, Hannah Ebner-Amina Kilpatrick and Halle Erwin-Meg Curtis all earned their own straight-set victories, too.
Far bigger, though, was the Trojans’ 5-2 win over Bishop Grimes on Friday, which featured some tremendous singles matches. Louisa Morrow lost, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4, to the Cobras’ Liz Wolaver, but Fazeli won a long third-set tie-breaker to get past Katie Knittel 7-5, 0-6, 7-6 (10-8) as Walsh routed Rachel Christie 6-0, 6-3.
MPH got helped by the fact that Grimes had to forfeit two of the four doubles matches, but it still had Grenis and Grace Morrow beat Mary Castricone and Gina Martin 6-2 6-2, with Grimes having Olivia Minor and Michela Martruano beat Eva Englich and Marianna Cousins 6-3, 6-1.
Grimes had lost, 6-1, to Cazenovia the day before, with Knittel preventing a Lakers shutout by rallying in singles to beat Julie Silverman 2-6, 6-2, 6-2. Wolaver fell to Lucy Langan in a 6-4, 6-4 decision.
