CENTRAL NEW YORK – Each of the area’s four high school girls tennis teams had their busiest stretch of the season, timing with a more temperate climate that contrasted the blazing heat that postponed several matches a week earlier.
Westhill was 2-0 going into last Monday’s match with Manlius Pebble Hill and needed a doubles sweep to get past the Trojans 4-3.
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With Julia Flegel, Cadence Ramsing and Clare Delay all dropping singles matches, the Warriors turned it around with straight-set doubles wins from the teams of Phoebe Gumaer-Samantha Burkett and Emily Balduzzi-Megan Battista.
Then, in the decisive doubles match, Kathleen Rogers and Isabella Johnson trailed early, but turned it around to beat Rose Fallon and Sabrina Loop 4-6, 6-1, 6-2.
Following this up, Westhill blanked Chittenango 7-0 on Wednesday, but three of the matches with the Bears went to three sets to go with singles wins by Flegel and Ramsing.
Delay had to work past Molly Douglas 6-2, 2-6, 10-6, while Rogers and Johnson again went to three sets and again prevailed 6-3, 4-6, 6-0 over Ali Bartoszek and Sarah McKillid. Tatum Bagnell and Jane Stanton outlasted Lynne Devine and Margaret Geer 7-5, 2-6, 10-4.
And Westhill kept itself unbeaten Friday at the expense of its neighbors from Marcellus, prevailing 6-1 over the Mustangs.
Three of the doubles matches went to the Warriors in two sets, but Johnson and Rogers needed three sets to win 6-2, 1-6, 6-2 over Korinne Kemp and Sofia Tufenkjian.
Sophie Clarke got Marcellus on the board when she beat Delay 7-6 (9-7), 4-6, 10-7, and first singles also went to three sets, with Fiegel defeating Shaelyn Kelly 6-0, 2-6, 6-1.
West Genesee had won its opener 7-0 over Cicero-North Syracuse on Sept. 5 and, nearly a week later, leaned entirely on dominant doubles play to edge Liverpool 4-3.
Nicole Vasilev and Lauren Battaglia’s 6-0, 6-0 shutout of Kamry Scanna and Jaspreet Purewal kicked off a sweep that included Sarah Domin and Evelina Mauro routing Hailey Jaquin and Isabella Turck 6-1, 6-0.
In a 6-1, 6-0 romp, Hannah Sparks and Cynthia Schlenker handled Chloe Musengo and Lydia Breckhimer, while Angelina Allen and Calina Olson, in first doubles, easily turned back Christy Bui and Angela Morgans 6-0, 6-2.
A 7-0 romp over Henninger followed on Wednesday, WG claiming all four doubles matches with shutouts, as did Helena Allen in singles. Backing this up, Drury got past Parisa Ozbek 6-1, 6-0, with Ava Amodio rolling past Reedima Thapa 6-0, 6-1.
WG challenged unbeaten Fayetteville-Manlius last Thursday and lost, 6-1, to the Hornets, gaining its lone point when Calina Olson, in second singles, rallied past Selena Chen 5-7, 6-2, 6-1. In doubles, Lauren Battaglia and Nicole Vasilev led early, yet could not hold it in a 4-6, 6-1, 6-2 defeat to Anohki Dalal and Sonia LaHaye.
Then, in Friday’s 7-0 defeat to Baldwinsville, WG saw six different matches end in two sets. In doubles, Evelina Mauro and Cynthia Schnelker up in front, unable to hold on in a 5-7, 6-3, 6-4 loss to Laine Zoanetti and Layla Trendowski.
Skaneateles returned to action last Wednesday and shut out Bishop Grimes 7-0. Only four of the matches were contested, the Lakers seeing Isabelle Sorderberg and Eva DeJesus win in singles as the doubles pairs of Caitlin Day-Katie Danforth and Bryn Butler-Georgia Kreidler also prevailed.
Before it met Westhill, Marcellus played twice earlier in the week. It took a 5-2 loss to Cazenovia last Monday afternoon, only able to win one of the six contested matches.
Ella Lutwin and Molly Moses got past Lila Campagna and Audrey Henry 7-5, 6-2. Clarke, Kelly and Xian Angotti lost in two sets, with Abby Finn and Katie Devereaux taking a 6-2, 4-6, 6-4 defeat to Ava Galton and Katie Williams.
The Mustangs rebounded Wednesday to blank Pulaski 7-0. Every match was won in straight sets, with Kelly pushed in a 7-6 (7-5), 6-3 decision over Lexi Charsky, but Angottia and Clarke winning as the doubles teams of Finn-Devereaux, Kemp-Tufenkjian, Moses-Lutwin and Zofia Pokowski-Caitlyn Sammon all rolled to victory.
