Just before the rains returned on Thursday afternoon, the Cicero-North Syracuse boys tennis team hosted Liverpool, and the match went mostly in the Northstars’ favor as it defeated the Warriors 6-1.
During a doubles sweep, C-NS had one forfeit, but claimed all of the contested matches, too. That included Trey Nordin-Abbey and John Barraco defeating Alex Alejo and Ben White 6-1, 6-3 and the team of Evan Harberek and James Coral beating Jeff Noll and Andrew Johnson 6-3, 6-4.
Liverpool did snare a point in singles, where Brandon Davis won a tough 6-4, 6-4 battle with Justin Kegebein. But the Northstars answered with Connor Millias claiming his first singles match over Evan Maestri 6-3, 7-6 and Edwin Hirsh reversing those numbers to beat Anthony Puma 7-6, 6-3.
When it was C-NS’s turn to take the measure of mighty Fayetteville-Manlius, the Northstars, like so many opponents before them, could not get on the board in a 7-0 defeat to the Hornets.
Kegebein tried to change that dynamic, pushing F-M”s Tom Miro to a first-set tie-breaker, but still taking a 7-6 (7-2), 6-1 defeat. Millias ran into Riley Ma and lost, 6-0, 6-0, with Hirsh handled by David Fernando 6-1, 6-2.
Moving to the doubles side, it proved just as challenging. C-NS’s teams of Nordin-Abbey-Barraco, Joe Bowen-Evan Habarek and Houser-Jarrod Stranger only won two total games in their six sets of work.
Liverpool took its own defeat that same day, 4-3, to Syracuse East. In singles competition, Maestri beat Samir Subba 6-0, 6-2, while Davis had a 6-4, 6-1 victory over Hahn Duong. But the Warriors defaulted the other singles match and struggled in doubles, too.
Right after beating Liverpool, C-NS faced Auburn on Friday and excelled in doubles, only to see the singles players unable to earn a point in a 4-3 defeat to the Maroons.
Millias and Kegebein, teammates on championship boys volleyball teams at C-NS, paired up here and routed Matt McGlire and Shahil Patel 6-1, 6-0. Houser and Stranger handled Matthias Ballard and Andrew Giannettino 6-2, 6-1, with Gehrig Sarosey and Josh Matyasik beating Jack Boyd and Zach Moore 6-4, 6-3.
However, Nordin-Abbey and Barraco took a 7-6 (7-3), 6-4 defeat to Connor Davia and Michael Morrissey. Meanwhile, in singles, Harberek played a solid second set, but lost to Luke Parker 6-1, 7-5 as Hirsh fell to Scott Minnoe 6-0, 6-0 and Zach Matyasik fell to Trevor Bohannon by those same scores.
