C-NS boys tennis wins rematch over B’ville

By PHil BlACKWEll

Finally getting a full week of sunshine and perfect playing conditions, the Cicero-North Syracuse boys tennis teams would be frequently on the court. And no match for the Northstars meant more than last Wednesday’s showdown with Baldwinsville, who gave C-NS its lone defeat of the regular season back on April 24.

The rematch would go quite different, though, as C-NS took advantage of a forfeit in doubles and did just enough elsewhere to edge the Bees 4-3.Wyatt Dupell set the tone in first singles, topping Mason Doan 6-4, 6-1, with Brady Petranchuk getting past Zach Treichler 6-4, 6-4 to make up for Brandon Nguyen’s 6-1, 6-3 defeat to Aidan DeLaney.

Moving to doubles, Mike Azzarello and Nathan Smith claimed that forfeit, but the teams of Peter Gill-Andrew George and Mike DeGroat-Alex Cao each lost in two sets.

That left it up to Matt Jordan and Ryan Kiel, who won the fist set 7-5 over Andrew Jung and Nick Helbig and, after absorbing a 6-4 loss in the second set, dominated the third set 6-0 to get the clinching point.