Top 3 seeds advance in PAC boys doubles tournament
GRATERFORD >> The seedings stayed intact Friday … to a degree.
The opening rounds of the Pioneer Athletic Conference Boys Tennis Doubles Tournament saw three of the top four ranked duos advance through three rounds of competition at Perkiomen Valley. And the bump-up involved the tourney’s fifth seed — Pottsgrove’s Wyatt Lear and Troy Watts — topping the fourth seed.
Lear and Watts had a hard-played third-round duel with Methacton’s Jeff Cooper and Zach Stevenson, the final outcome 7-6 (7-3), 4-6, 6-4. They will now face top seeds Aaron Fry and Carter Young of Perkiomen Valley in one semifinal, with the other comprised of Phoenixville second seeds Josh Starczewski and David Clipper going against third-seeded Cameron Moore and Josh Pergine of Spring-Ford.
Fry and Young handled Boyertown’s Brent Holzmann and Scott Levengood in the second round 6-0, 6-2. They had a closer contest with Phoenixville’s Anthony DeLuca and Oliver Gordon but came out on top 6-4, 6-3.
Starczewski and Clipper dispatched PV’s Jeremy Hadler and Henry Ye to start, 6-2, 6-0. They followed that with a 6-2, 6-2 win over the Bears’ Taylor Stork/Carmen Rosselli tandem 6-2, 6-2.
Moore and Pergine swept Upper Merion’s Gabe Giannamarco and Luke Andraka 6-0, 6-0. They were extended to a tiebreaker by Methacton’s Drew Santmann and A.J. Schneider 6-1, 7-6 (7-1).
The tournament will resume Monday with semifinal and final matches at 4 p.m.
TEAM KEY: Boyertown (Bt), Methacton (Me), Norristown (Nt), Owen J. Roberts (OJR), Perkiomen Valley (PV), Phoenixville (Px), Pope John Paul II (PJP), Pottsgrove (Pg), Pottstown (Pt), Spring-Ford (SF), Upper Merion (UMe), Upper Perkiomen (UP).
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Opening Round
Brent Holzman/Scott Levengood (Bt) def. Kishna Patel/Xavier Francis (Pt) 6-2, 6-3; John Doan/Barrington Richards (UMe) def. A.J. Mares/Aidan Zepp (PJP) 6-0, 6-0; Evan Ratushny/Brayden Sanfelice (UP) def. Les Flores/Jose Ortiz (Nt) 6-0, 6-4; Colton Pollock/Navein Suresh (SF) def. Will Cano/Liam Sanders (OJR) 6-2. 7-5; Gabe Gianmarco/Luke Andraka (UMe) def. Dane Crook/Jose Tellez (Nt) 6-0, 6-0; Drew Santmann/A.J. Schneider (Me) def. Kyle Schmoyer/Dakota Williams (UP) 6-1, 6-0; Karl Storck/Carl Rosselli (Bt) def. James Ryder/Dominic Dipietro (Pt) 6-0, 6-2; Jeremy Hadler/Henry Ye (PV) def. Cotton Dicriscio/Shane Gleason (PV) 6-1, 6-7 (4-7), 7-5.
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Second Round
Aaron Fry/Carter Young (PV) def. Holzman/Levengood (Bt) 6-0, 6-2; DeLuca/Gordon (Px) def. Doan/Richards (UMe) 6-2, 6-2; Lear/Watts (Pg) def. Ratushny/Sanfelice (UP) 6-0, 6-1; Jeff Cooper/Zach Stevenson (Me) def. Pollock/Suresh (SF) 6-1, 6-2; Cameron Moore/Josh Pergine (SF) def. Gianmarco/Andraka (UMe) 6-1, 6-0; Santmann/Schneider (Me) def. Tommy Rutkowski/A.J. Collins (PJP) 6-2, 6-0; Storck/Rosselli (Bt) def. Talan Nguyen/Jack Sawicki (OJR) 6-4, 4-6, 6-3; Josh Starczewski/David Clipper (Px) def. Hadler/Ye (PV) 6-2, 6-0.
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Quarterfinals
Fry/Young (PV) def. DeLuca/Gordon (Px) 6-4, 6-3; Lear/Watts (Pg) def. Cooper/Stevenson (Me) 7-6 (7-3), 4-6, 6-4; Moore/Pergine (SF) def. Santmann/Schneider (Me) 6-1, 7-6 (7-1); Starczewski/Clipper (Px) def. Storck/Rosselli (Bt) 6-2, 6-2.
