Only one opponent seems to have the Jamesville-DeWitt girls tennis team’s number this season.
Auburn, who defeated the Red Rams 5-2 on Aug. 27, did the same thing when the two sides met again two weeks later, the Maroons even repeating the 5-2 margin that had worked before.
Both of J-D’s points came in singles, where Tara Pollock turned back Celia Mattie 6-3, 6-0 as Inika Gajra rolled past Rosalia Bartolotta 6-1, 6-0. Anna Sofia Hege lost, 6-1, 7-5, to Makayla Huntley.
Auburn won all four doubles matches, including a three-set battle where J-D’s Olivia Frison DeAngelis and Lena Jones fell to Alexis Calkins and Daisy Townsend 6-1, 4-6, 7-5.
Shannon Beaudry and Sophie Proe went to a first-set tie-breaker, but lost to Katie Donovan and Nikolette Gray 7-6, 6-2. The teams of Olivia DeHoog-Margaret Frank and Lily Fleet-Riya Sharma also lost in two sets.
Despite this result, J-D still had the edge over its neighbors from East Syracuse Minoa, whom it beat Friday for the second time this season, the Rams topping the Spartans 7-0.
This was ESM’s third match in as many days, and still Caitlin Abbott pushed Fleet to three sets in singles before Fleet prevailed 7-5, 6-7, 10-5, though Pollock routed Christine Andrews 6-0, 6-1 and Hege blanked Lizzy Phillips 6-0, 6-0.
DeHoog and Gajra won in doubles 7-6, 6-2 over Alexis Stone and Alyssa Woodruff, with Frison DeAngelis and Jones handling Sophia Rogers and Megan Volz 6-2, 6-2. Proe and Sharma paired up to beat Kylie Bachman and Amina Kasumovic 6-0, 6-1, with Beaudry and Sydney Cline handling Sophia Corsello and Sadie Fero 6-0, 6-0.
ESM had met Fulton on Wednesday, and prevailed 5-2 over the Red Raiders, including a sweep by the Spartans of all three singles matches.
Stone overcame a first-set tie-breaker defeat to top Erin Waloven 6-7, 6-2, 6-3, while Julia Barnwell handled Kelsey Rosenbarker 6-3, 6-1. Also in straight sets, Woodruff beat Ana Snyder 6-2, 6-2.
In a split of the doubles matches, ESM had Shaina Brilbeck and Mary Louise Pontius beat Shaylee Cealie and Nora Kingsbury 6-1, 6-1, with Rogers and Volz topping Leah Kingsbury and Ana Marroquin-Aguilar 6-1, 6-3. In a third-set tie-breaker, Andrews and Erin Houghtaling fell to Abigail Cuyler and Katie Distin 6-2, 5-7, 7-6.
A day later, ESM won again over Syracuse West by that same 5-2 margin, this time by sweeping the doubles, the toughest match a comeback where Victoria Bodarenko and Dorie Karandy got past Khadijah McClain and Maddie Rioux 4-6, 6-3, 6-4.
Andrews and Houghtaling handled Kelly La and Amor Williams 6-3, 6-1, with Barnwell and Woodruff routing Kyra Caraballo and Ana McGough 6-1, 6-2.
Taylor Lynch and Lauren Postma won 6-3, 6-4 over Elizabeth Soe and Beyonce Wood. The only ESM singles point came from Abbott, who beat Rioux 6-4, 6-1 as Stone and Katie Schmidt both took defeats.
Bishop Grimes could not gain a point from Cazenovia in last Wednesday’s 7-0 defeat. Kate Mathewson played the closest match for the Cobras, getting to a first-set tie-breaker in a 7-6, 6-1 defeat to Emmie Dolbear.
In doubles, Sarah Falgiatano and Abby Fletcher ran into Abby Burrell and Charley Harris and took a 6-1, 6-4 defeat, with Lenora Cendrone and Abby Wilkinson losing to Kaitlyn Puffer and Nina Royer by those same scores.
