Though the high school boys tennis season proved as vulnerable as other spring sports to the lingering cold weather, Cicero-North Syracuse and Liverpool were able to get late last week, even after Thursday’s rainout of a head-to-head showdown.
The Northstars prevailed, 4-3, over Syracuse East in its first Salt City Athletic Conference Metro division match of the season, though it also took a 5-2 defeat to Oneida earlier that week.
C-NS was aided against Syracuse East by a singles sweep. James Coral had the closest match, topping Hanh Duong 6-3, 6-4, while Ryan Hill shut out Curran Shannon 6-0, 6-0 and Wyatt Dupell defeated Jack Le 6-2, 6-0.
Even though it struggled in doubles, the Northstars still pushed two of the matches to three sets. Ryan Gallagher and Joe Bowen fell to Matt Houck and Thomas Moore 6-3, 4-6, 7-5, while Josh Matyasik and Cody Barth saw an early lead get away in a 4-6, 6-0, 6-0 loss to Kyle Giardine and Chris Edmonds.
Back on Wednesday, C-NS got a singles point against Oneida when Hill routed Drew Hicks 6-1, 6-1. The doubles point came from Barth and Kyle Bulko, who paired up to beat Dylan Becraft and Braydon DiSalvo 6-1, 6-3. Evan Haberek lost in three sets to Seth O’Connell 6-2, 4-6, 10-4.
Liverpool returned to action on Friday, against Baldwinsville, and could not get on the board in a 7-0 defeat to the Bees.
Three different times, the Warriors pushed matches to three sets. Aaron Alejo led early in third singles, but still lost a 5-7, 6-3, 6-3 decision to Nick Licciardello.
Moving to doubles, Filipo Valenti and Ben White were one game from victory, only to get caught and overtaken by Sam Damato and Anthony Pompo in a 4-6,7-6, 6-2 defeat. Caleb Arnold and Aiden Barbour lost to Jeremy Rappard and Adam Van Apledoorn 6-3, 2-6, 6-2.
Owen Dann lost in singles to Antonio Marsello 6-1, 6-0 as Caleb Munski fell to Alex Shaban 6-2, 6-2. Andrew Johnson and Jeff Noll took a 6-0, 7-6 defeat to Diego Aguirre and Max Funicello as Brayden Cabrey and Jon Kline met Funicello and Hunter Dukat, taking a 6-0, 6-2 loss.
