In between rainouts of all of the matches last Monday and Thursday, another busy and exciting week for area high school girls tennis teams unfolded, with the regular season about to conclude.
Marcellus carried an eight-match win streak into last Monday’s match at Chittenango, only to struggle in singles and not make up for it in doubles during a 4-3 loss to the Bears.
Swept by Chittenango in singles, the Mustangs needed all four doubles points. Kathleen DeMarle and Elaina Mahoney won, 6-2, 7-5, over Riley Ellis and Sarah Lanphear, with Bella Clarke and Isabella Demeis rallying past Brianna Crystal and Keelin Davie 4-6, 6-1, 6-2.
Two games from defeat, Megan Mitchell and Morgan Walsh pulled it out over Abbie Austin and Allison Soulier 5-7, 7-5, 6-4. Sophia Shaw and Maddie Vetsch had a chance at the clinching point, but could not hold on in a 3-6, 6-4, 10-3 defeat to the Bears’ Leah Demauro and Jessica Hallock.
Skaneateles rolled past Pulaski 7-0 last Tuesday, with the Lakers’ singles trio of Kenna Ellis, Isabella Kroon and Lily Miller allowing just one game in six combined sets. Only once in four doubles matches did Skaneateles surrender a game, and even there Sofia Capozza and Sophia Soderberg won, 6-2, 6-3, over Isabella Pierce and Cara Reynolds.
A day later, the Lakers topped Homer 6-1, with Ellis working past Sienna Haskins 6-3, 6-1 as Kroon blanked Lydia Sujkowski 6-0, 6-0 and Emma Miller taking her turn in singles, winning 6-0, 6-0 over Brynne Peck.
Ella Danforth and Emma Miller paired up to beat Ellis Han and Marlena Kruman 7-6, 6-1, with Rachel Hackler and Kelsey Rutledge beating Emily Barber and Charlotte Wallis 6-1, 6-2. Meg Benedict and Olivia Walker topped Natalie Brown and Abby McLaughlin in straight sets 6-1, 6-3.
Back in action on Friday afternoon, Skaneateles faced Jordan-Elbridge and won again, topping the Eagles 5-2.
In singles, Kroon shut out Wendy Carter 6-0, 6-0, with Lily Miller rolling past Maria LaFleur 6-1, 6-1, which made up for J-E getting on the board when Anisa Bort rallied and, in a third-set tie-breaker, beat Ellis 2-6, 6-4, 7-6.
The Eagles also won in doubles when Katelyn Precourt and Gabrielle Skotinski beat Benedict and Walker 7-6, 6-3, but Skaneateles earned the other three points as the teams of Hackler-Rutledge, Capozza-Soderberg and Danforth-Emma Miller lost just four games in six sets.
Earlier in the week, J-E took a 5-2 defeat to the other Lakers from Cazenovia, with Bort getting a singles point for the Eagles 7-5, 7-5 over the Lakers’ Nova Berger. In doubles, Precourt and Skotinski won, 6-2, 6-4, over Regan Dauenhauer and Emma Thornton.
West Genesee, in its latest attempt to upend Fayetteville-Manlius, lost 6-1 to the Hornets last Tuesday afternoon, the lone point coming in doubles, where Angelina Llanos and Katie Viau routed Samhitha Adivikolanu and Angela Iskander 6-0, 6-1.
Angelina Allen was the lone Wildcats singles player to earn games in a 6-0, 6-4 defeat to Trisha Adivikolanu. In the other doubles matches, Kara Chawgo and Isabelle Wells held up well in a 6-2, 6-4 loss to Maya McKenzie and Camilla Wojtasiewicz.
Back in action on Friday, WG beat Central Square 4-3 entirely with its doubles teams, with Llanos-Viau and Wells-Madelyn Chuff each getting 6-0, 6-0 shutouts and the teams of Alyssa Congel-Margaret Mello and Chawgo-Aislinn Dow dropping just two games apiece.
