ONONDAGA COUNTY – Now it was time for both the Cicero-North Syracuse and Liverpool boys tennis teams to enter the heart of their league schedules, if the weather would allow it.
Cold temperatures kept the Northstars and Warriors from going head-to-head last Wednesday afternoon, but they would make it up 24 hours later and C-NS would get the best of it, prevailing by a score of 5-2.
All four doubles matches went in the Northstars’ favor, starting with Dan Jordan and Brady Petranchuk rolling past Andrew Caimano and James Welch 6-2, 6-2.
Joe DeGroat and Tim Mai went through two tough sets, yet won 7-5, 6-4 over Anthony Raineri and Brad Ritter, with Pete Gill and Ryan Keil routing Mason Pinchin and Aydan Presley 6-1, 6-0. Mike DeGroat and Andrew George handled Jimmy Bui and John Ioannidis 6-0, 6-2.
Liverpool did far better in singles, seeing Justin Barrett beat Wyatt Dupell 6-2, 6-2 and Billy Balduf prevail 7-5, 6-1 over Brandon Nguyen. But the Northstars countered with Matt Jordan getting past Evan Miller 6-3, 6-4.
Amid last Monday’s 80-degree temperatures, C-NS took to the court against Baldwinsville and found some success in doubles, but still lost, 5-2, to the Bees.
Mai and DeGroat beat Aidan Delaney and Logan Bolton 7-5, 6-0, while in a come-from-behind effort George and Ryan Fehrman defeated Cameron Dougherty and Aidan Stan 2-6, 6-2, 6-3.
Another doubles match went to three sets, but Gill and Keil lost, 6-1, 4-6, 6-3, to Zach Pendergast and Zach Treichler as Petranchuk and Dan Jordanlost to Nick Licciardello and Andrew Jung 6-1, 6-1.
All of the singles matches went to B’ville, including a three-set duel where Matt Jordan fell to Mason Doan 6-2, 3-6, 6-1. Dupell fell to Antonio Marsallo 6-0, 6-0 as Nguyen had a 6-1, 6-2 loss to Connor Tutor.
C-NS played again on Friday, against West Genesee, and built upon the Liverpool win by taking out the Wildcats by a score of 6-1.
Dupell lost in singles, but Nguyen beat Cooper Corcoran 6-0, 6-0 as Matt Jordan topped Ty’san Scott 6-0, 6-0. The doubles teams of Petranchuk-Dan Jordan, Mai-Tim DeGroat and George-Mike DeGroat each won in two sets as Gill and Keil needed three sets to get past Joe Paoli and Nate Ruston 6-1, 4-6, 6-3.
This happened as Liverpool was shut out 7-0 by first-place Fayetteville-Manlius. Most of the matches were lopsided, but Barrett did play a close first set before falling 7-5, 6-1 to Cameron Lukasik.
