Just before August ended, the Christian Brothers Academy girls tennis team played its neighbors from Manlius-Pebble Hill and earned every point in a 7-0 sweep of the Trojans.
Gieselle Vlassis, handling Parmees Fazeli 6-1, 6-0 in first singles, got it rolling for the Brothers. One singles match was forfeited to Calista Albring, but Grace Glowaki played and got past Genevieve Morrow 6-3, 6-3.
Three different CBA doubles teams – Grace Coyne-Grace DelPino, Grace Catalano-Aubrey Mills and Annie Kilmartin-Maddie Tallman – did not drop a game in any of their six sets. Mary Kilmartin and Isabella Mead won, 6-1, 6-1, over Emma Gross and Grace Zhang.
Then, on Thursday, the Brothers rolled past Skaneateles 6-1, only stumbling in a long doubles match decided by a third-set tie-breaker where Coyne and DelPino lost, 5-7, 6-4, 7-6 to the Lakers’ tandem of Ella Danforth and Emma Miller.
Otherwise, it was all CBA as Vlassis and Glowaki each won 6-0, 6-1 decisions over, respectively, Hope Allyn and Riley Fouts, with Albring beating Marin Doyle 6-1, 6-0. The teams of Catalano-Mills, Mead-Mary Kilmartin and Tallman-Annie Kilmartin earned straight-set decisions.
Jamesville-DeWitt proceeded on Aug. 31 with its own 7-0 shutout, this one over Cortland, with no games dropped by Tara Pollock (against Lexi Zacek) or Anna Sofia Hege (against Lindsey Bush) as Olivia DeHoog got past Jennifer Baker 6-0, 6-1.
It was much the same in doubles, the Red Rams rolling past the Purple Tigers, though it took Shannon Beaudry and Libby Blair a while to turn back Julia Guest and Sadie Urtz 6-1, 6-7, 11-9.
Lily Fleet and Sophie Proe won, 6-1, 7-5, over Reilly Record and Merrill Stroch, with Lena Jones and Riya Sharma pairing up to beat Malena Darling and Lily Devlen 7-5, 6-0. Margaret Frank and Olivia Frison DeAngelis handled McKenna Morris and Kayci Olson in straight sets 6-1, 6-2.
The shutouts were just starting. J-D handled Central Square 7-0 as Gajra, Pollock and Hege each won 6-1, 6-0 matches over, respectively, Boyko, Victoria Tyrrell and Nicole Connors, while in doubles the teams of DeHoog-Frank, Frison DeAngelis-Jones, Fleet-Sharma and Beaudry-Proe dropped just three games in eight combined sets.
J-D got another 7-0 shutout over Syracuse West on Thursday afternoon, not dropping a set. Gajra was pushed in singles, but still won, 6-1, 6-4 over Carol Saovelo as Fleet and Jones paired up in doubles to hold back Ana McGough and Ailani Pierce 7-5, 6-4.
Yet another 7-0 win came on Friday, J-D ripping past Oswego without surrendering a set.
Gajra had the biggest test in singles, yet beat Abbey Yurkon 6-3, 6-2 as Frison DeAngelis and Jones got through the toughest of the doubles matches, handling Abigail McPherson and Mattie Wallace 6-4, 6-1.
East Syracuse Minoa broke through in its own way on Aug. 31 when it beat Central Square 5-2, sweeping all four of the doubles matches from the Redhawks.
Sophia Rogers and Megan Volz rallied past Savannah Gunther and Aleah Stoutenger 2-6, 6-3, 10-7. Lizzy Phelps and Jessica Vollmer prevailed over Maiya Fiumara and Alaina Godici 6-3, 6-4.
It proved even more lopsided when Christine Andrews and Erin Houghtaling handled Lauren Foland and Katilyn Meigel 6-2, 6-3, with Shaina Brilbeck and MaryLouise Pontius handling Megan Goodwin and Maddie Notaro 6-1, 6-1.
Moving to singles play, Julia Barnwell lost in straight sets and Alexis Stone fell to Victoria Tyrrell 6-2, 1-6, 6-2, but Alyssa Woodruff snared another ESM point when she defeated Claudia Boyko 6-2, 7-6.
In last Tuesday’s 7-0 defeat to Auburn, ESM could not earn a set in any of the seven matches. In doubles, Christine Andrews and Julie Barnwell battled in a 6-3, 6-4 loss to Erin Calkins and Daisy Townsend, while Caitiln Abbott and Ann Bradley lost, 6-4, 6-1, to Katie Donovan and Nikolette Gray.
ESM then fell to Oswego 4-3, with Stone getting close to the clinching point in first singles, but dropping a third-set tie-breaker in a 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 defeat to Alyssa Adner.
Barnwell won in singles over Kelly Lizotte 6-3, 6-3, while Brilbeck and Pontius handled Victoria Crisafulli and Gabby Pacheco 6-2, 6-1. Also in doubles, Rogers and Volz rolled past Laura Cummings and Sophie Griffiths 6-1, 6-1.
This long, busy week ended for ESM with a 6-1 loss to Cortland Friday. Stone won in singles 3-6, 6-0, 6-3 over Lexi Zacek, but Barnwell could not hold on, falling to Lindsey Bush 4-6, 6-1, 6-1 as Woodruff had a 6-4, 5-7, 6-4 loss to Jennifer Baker.
