CENTRAL NEW YORK – Regardless of which class is talked about, area high school girls tennis teams fully expect themselves to battle for Section III championship honors.
This is especially true at Fayetteville-Manlius , out to claim the Class A crown again as the sectional tournament gets underway on Monday with the Hornets facing no. 8 seed Central Square in the quarterfinals.
Christian Brothers Academy could await in the semifinals if the no. 5 seed Brothers beat no. 4 seed Liverpool, while East Syracuse Minoa has the no. 3 seed hosting no. 6 seed Rome Free Academy.
CBA went to 11-0 on the season defeating Mexico 6-1. In single-set matches to eight games Rowan Doyle topped Morgan Benton 8-2 and Clare Schaefer beat Jessica Hill 8-3. The closest of the four doubles matches had Claire Ashe and Sadie Wichmann beating Gabriella Bickford and Kylee Seymour 8-4.
F-M had shut out most of its regular-season opponents, doing it again last Monday to Cicero-North Syracuse 7-0.
There were four different 6-0, 6-0 wins from Lindsey Chong and Erin McLain in singles and the doubles teams of Sadie Toole-Samreen Mangat and Mariah Sun-Sonia LaHaye. Only in second doubles did the Northstars make any small dent, and even there Caitlyn McLain and Julia Kim turned back Kaelin Prentice and Jessica Barnes 6-2, 6-3.