ONONDAGA COUNTY – Once more, the Fayetteville-Manlius girls tennis team found its Salt City Athletic Conference Metro division supremacy challenged – and once again it emerged on top.
The Hornets roared past Baldwinsville 6-1 in their first of two encounters on Sept. 2, fueled by a sweep of all three singles matches.
Anna Manta blanked Hannah Gould 6-0, 6-0, with Angelina Fang outlasting Reagan Doan 6-2, 7-6. In a three-set comeback, Trisha Adavikolanu defeated Audrey Benton 3-6, 6-3, 6-2.
F-M took its lone blemish in doubles, where Natalie Hugo and Katya Quinn fell to Ayla Kalfass and Mira Nazdan 6-3, 7-6, but it got the other three matches in two sets.
Angela Iskander and Maya McKenzie won 6-3, 6-4 over Elaina Nesbitt and Julia Quinn, with Ava Abruzzese and Brooke Tester taking out Alexandra Cavino and Sophia Fiorentino 6-2, 6-4. Madison Chamberlain and Laura Scalzetti won over Isabella Iannitti and Megan Stack-Couture 6-1, 6-3.
Off for six days, F-M returned to action last Thursday and wiped out Cicero-North Syracuse 7-0, with Manta and Adavikolanu both getting 6-0, 6-0 shutouts over, respectively, Autumn Brown and Danielle Crivelli as Scalzetti won over Meghan Obelman 6-0, 6-3.
In the closest of the four doubles matches, Hugo and Quinn beat Eve Campitello and Megan Johnston 6-4, 6-2. The temas of Iskander-McKenzie, Abruzzese-Tester and Parisa Ahmed-Selena Chen also won in two sets.
F-M did give up a point to Auburn last Friday, yet still rolled to a 6-1 victory. The singles highlight was Scalzetti’s 7-6, 6-4 win over Erin Calkins.
Manta won 6-1, 6-0 over Alexandra Vitale and Adavikolanu topped Ella Bouley 6-1, 6-1. Straight-set wins were earned by the doubles teams of Iskander-McKenzie, Abruzzese-Tester and Selena Chen-Angelina Fang.
Making its season debut last Thursday afternoon, Christian Brothers Academy had little trouble with Homer, the Brothers blanking the Trojans 7-0.
Gieselle Vlassis, in first singles, handled Emma Effinger 6-0, 6-0, with Hana Kang topoping Ella Spanbauer 6-2, 6-3 and Rowan Doyle working past Charlotte Wallis 6-0, 6-1.
Each of CBA’s four doubles matches were also straight-set victories as the teams of Grace Catalano-Aubrey Mills, Lily Geneocco-Isabella Mead, Maddie Kanerviko-Allie Mancini and Audrey Schaefer-Meredith Sommers each prevailed.
East Syracuse Minoa snared a single point out of last Tuesday’s 6-1 defeat to Auburn, doing so in doubles, where Tierrah Bauer and Gianna Brilbeck beat the Maroons’ Emma Merkley and Cara Visale in three sets 7-5, 1-6, 6-1. In the closet singles match, Lizzy Phillips fell to Ella Bouley 7-5, 6-1.
Then, in Friday’s 7-0 loss to Whitesboro, ESM claimed just two games in six sets of singles, and was thwarted from a doubles point when Rhiannon Axlman and Bella Sylvester lost 5-7, 6-2, 7-5 to Jocelyn Kulis and Sarah Mullen.
Bishop Grimes could not get on the board in its opener, falling 7-0 to Homer. Sofia Ziankoski nearly earned the opening set for the Cobras against Effinger in first singles, only to lose 6-4, 6-1. A 7-0 defeat to Marcellus followed two days later.
