CENTRAL NEW YORK – Sure, it had to wait a couple more days, but the Cazenovia girls tennis team did not mind.
Three wins in a span of 48 hours brought the Lakers a second consecutive Section III Class C championship, sealed in last Friday’s championship match at Utica Parkway Courts where it took out no. 2 seed Copenhagen 4-1.
Two points in singles were quickly secured when Leah Bell prevailed 6-3, 6-3 over Rylee Presley and Madden Cobb topped Rhianna Kriner 6-4, 6-1, which made up for Nora Berg not quite able to get the third point in a 1-6, 7-5, 11-9 defeat to Acara Speicher.
Both doubles points would go to the Lakers, too. Katie Williams and Claire Vaccaro got past Arianna Doyle and Brianna Presley 6-4, 6-3 as, in a third-set 10-point tiebreak Lila Campagna and Ava Galton got past Stella Buker and Sarah Richardson 6-4, 4-6, 10-7.
Rainouts kept the quarterfinal round from taking place until last Wednesday, Cazenovia hosting no. 8 seed Skaneateles and emerging from this latest Lakers duel with a 6-1 victory.
A doubles sweep began with Williams and Vaccaro getting through some early stress to beat Madelyn Vance and Makayla Barron 7-5, 6-3, while Lila Campagna and Ava Galton routed Georgia Krielder and Livy Lovenguth 6-2, 6-0.
Charlotte Rushing and Audrey Henry rolled past Millie Wu and Lily Bennett 6-1, 6-4,while reversing those scores Bailey Burns and Audrey Henry defeated MaryKate Holst and Addy Pavlus 6-4, 6-1.
Bouncing back from Leah Bell’s 6-3, 6-1 singles defeat to Eva DeJesus, Cazenovia had Madden Cobb beat Addison Zieler 7-5, 6-0 and Nora Berg top Katie Danforth 6-3, 6-1.
Thursday’s semifinal against no. 4 seed Marcellus brought the same amount of success, only here the Lakers pulled off a shutout topping the Mustangs 7-0.
Preserving that perfect mark required Campagna and Galton to go three sets to beat Zofia Piorkowski and Katie Devereaux 6-1, 4-6, 6-3, but every other match needed just two sets.
Williams and Vaccaro won 6-3, 6-4 over Shaelyn Kelly and Abby Finn, with Rushing and Audrey Henry topping Deveraux and Molly Moses 6-1, 6-4. Claiming a second set tiebreak, Burns and Claire Henry worked past Anna Aupperle and Caitlyn Sammon 6-4, 7-6 (7-1).
Over in singles, Berg’s 6-2, 6-4 win over Adeline Kinsley was the closest of the three matches. Bell nearly got a shutout beating Sofia Tufenkjian 6-1, 6-0, with Cobb topping Xian Angiotti 6-0, 6-2.
