In the midst of their busiest regular-season stretches, area high school boys tennis teams each strove for victories, sometimes at each other’s expense.
One example of this was Baldwinsville taking on Liverpool last Monday, with the Bees able to claim every single point in a 7-0 shutout of the Warriors.
Each of the three singles matches was a Bees romp as Antonio Marsallo handled Aiden Barbour 6-0, 6-0, with Eric Smith beating Austin Huntress-Kennedy 6-1, 6-1 and Christian Treichler topping Matt Kane 6-1, 6-2.
To get the doubles teams going, B’ville’s Max Funicello and Nick Licciardello beat Aaron Alejo and Eli Barbour 6-3, 6-2, while Hunter Dukat and Leonardo Vona won, 7-5, 6-2, over Caleb Arnold and Brayden Cabrey.
Phil Fiorentino and Connor Tutor got their own 6-1, 6-1 victory over Austin Mai and Adam Ritter, just as Colin Savage and Clayton Speach blanked Ty Carlson and Jonathan Kline 6-0, 6-0.
From there, B’ville went on to a rematch Wednesday with the same West Genesee team it beat 4-3 a week earlier, and by that same margin the Bees prevailed again over the Wildcats, helped by a sweep in singles.
Marsallo rolled past Stefan Atanasov 6-1, 6-1, with Smith beating Noah Ruston 6-4, 6-1 and Vona taking a turn in singles, earning a 6-4, 6-3 victory over Ty Lisi.
With the teams of Funicello-Licciardello, Fiorentino-Tutor and Diego Aguirre-Colin Savage all taking straight-set defeats, B’ville needed a point in doubles from Treichler and Dukat, and they came through, beating WG’s David Puma and Michael White 6-3, 6-4.
As that went on, Liverpool got overwhelmed by Fayetteville-Manlius in a 7-0 defeat. Aiden Barbour played the closest of the seven matches, dropping a 6-1, 6-2 singles decision to the Hornets’ David Fernando.
As if that wasn’t enough for the Warriors, it had to face Cicero-North Syracuse on Friday, and just like in their first meeting, the Northstars got the best of it, handling Liverpool 7-0.
In first singles, C-NS’s James Corl got past Aiden Barbour 6-3, 6-2, with Ryan Hill taking a bit longer to beat Adam Ritter 6-4, 6-3 as Wyatt Dupell won, 6-0, 6-3, over Huntress-Kennedy.
Moving to doubles, Jonathan Corl and Brandon Millias won, 6-2, 6-2, over Alejo and Eli Barbour, with Ryan Gallagher and Edwin Hirsh getting through a tough first set, but beating Arnold and Cabrey 7-5, 6-2.
The other matches weren’t as close, Ethan Dupell and William Janusz handling Kane and Owen Dann 6-1, 6-0, just as Josh Matyasik and Holden Sarosy worked past Kline and Shohbit Sharma 6-0, 6-3.
Before this, C-NS visited West Genesee last Monday afternoon, and found some success in singles, but no headway in doubles as it lost 5-2 to the Wildcats.
In first singles, James Corl turned back Stefan Atanasov 6-0, 6-3, with Gallagher beating Ty Lisi 6-4, 6-2. However, WG packed its best players in doubles and won all four of those matches, the closest one where Dupell and Hill lost, 6-3, 6-4, to Ryan Joyce and Max Mekker.
Turning that around, C-NS won over Syracuse East by that same 5-2 margin on Wednesday as Dupell, Hill and James Corl swept the singles, none of them dropping a game in six sets.
Millias and Jonathan Corl prevailed in doubles, as did Jamie Courtright and Pete Gill in a 6-3, 6-3 decision over Yasin Hassan and Salimo Musa. Ricky Reilly and Nate Wagner lost a 6-7, 6-3, 6-0 decision to Chris Edmunds and Curran Shannon.
