Tom Daviau has spent decades as the boys tennis coach at Christian Brothers Academy, his players accumulating a long series of accolades.
And when the Brothers defeated Cazenovia 3-2 last Monday afternoon, it gave Daviau his 450th career victory, achieved here through a sweep of all three singles matches.
Dean Vlassis handled Aiden Kalteski 6-0, 6-1, while neither Ben Vlassis nor Shivam Nanavati dropped games in their 6-0, 6-0 wins over, respectively, C.J. Monroe and Andrew Peterson.
In doubles, Hunter Burton and Max Lewis took a 6-1, 5-7, 6-2 defeat to Dan Gavilondo and Teddy Williams, while Michael Hill and Ayo Oguntola lost to Teddy Coughlin and Liam Flannery 6-1, 6-1.
Following this, CBA was off until Friday, when it beat Phoenix 5-0, only dropping three games in five single-set matches. Oguntola, in singles, beat Logan Chapman 8-2, with Nanavati blanking Ryan Lange 8-0 and Hill getting an 8-1 win over Evan Baldini.
Idle the previous week, Fayetteville-Manlius finally got in a match last Monday and routed Syracuse East 7-0. The Hornets’ doubles teams of Rohan Dhawan-Riley Ma, Ben Farber-McEntee-Andy Sun, Jaden Duggal-Davin Woodbridge and Cameron Lukasik-Andrew Shim lost just four games in eight total sets.
In singles, F-M’s David Fernando and Andrew Li each had 6-0, 6-0 wins over, respectively, Hanh Duong and Freddy Butler, with Max Farber-McEntee handling Matt Houck 6-1, 6-0.
Two days later, F-M handled Liverpool 7-0. Fernando had the closest match, topping Eli Barbour 6-1, 6-2, while Cameron Lukasik handled Cole Potrzeba 6-0, 6-1 and Max Farber-McEntee got past Adam Ritter 6-1, 6-0. The Hornets’ four doubles teams lost just three total games in eight sets.
Jamesville-DeWitt had its own strong effort last Monday against Oswego, claiming all of the singles points in a 6-1 victory over the Buccaneers.
Peter Hatton got it going with a 6-1, 6-0 win over Sasha Loayza, with Mark Bratslavsky beating Jacob Lenehan 6-1, 6-2 as William Guisbond had his own 6-1, 6-0 effort to beat Thomas Back.
In doubles, Will Parratt and Wes Sharlow lost, 5-7, 6-3, 6-2, to Ben Hoefer and Sam Liepke, but the teams of Essex Glowaki-Dhruv Nanavati, Mike Bratslavsky-Aniket Maini and Ben Oppedisano-Simon Zhou each won in straight sets.
Manlius-Pebble Hill handled LaFayette last Monday 5-0, with the singles trio of Dan Braverman, Charlie Mann and J.J. Braverman dropping just two games in six sets of singles play. Anthony Pitts and Harry Xu teamed to beat Brandon Benjamin and Mason Shute 6-1, 6-3, with Casey Beach and Alex Fung topping Leanna Crouse and Adam McIntyre 6-0, 7-5.
MPH then lost a 3-2 battle to Cazenovia on Wednesday, this despite a doubles classic where Xu and Beach needed two close tie-breakers to outlast Dan Gavilondo and Teddy Williams 5-7, 7-6 (7-5), 7-5 (7-6).
Of the three singles matches, the Trojans only won one of them, Dan Braverman beating Aiden Kalteski 6-2, 6-0. Mann led early, but could not hold on in a 4-6, 6-3, 6-1 defeat to Traian Cherciu.
On Friday, MPH met Homer and lost this Trojan duel 3-2. Dan Braverman rallied in singles past Ben Herman 4-6, 6-3, 6-3, with Pitts and Xu ousting Tommy Britt and Sean Powers 6-0, 6-2, but Homer won every other match in straight sets.
