- By Dawn Kleeschulte
- Sports
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On Thursday, April 23, the Bobcats defeated Watkins Glen 5-2 at home in a match rescheduled from earlier in the month. In singles, Lydia Warkentin came from behind to knock off her opponent in straight sets, 7-6, 6-2 while Jesse Ingalls was victorious at second singles, winning 6-0, 4-0. Dan Zarate succumbed to his opponent at third singles after a battle that ended with a Watkins Glen victory at 7-6, 7-5, while Tyler Engels fell in the first singles match 6-1, 6-2. Lansing swept the doubles competitions with solid performances by Nicolo Gentile and Mary Bacorn, Keenan Hughes and Jonathan Sun, and Ashley Schuster and Ashley Fleming. All pairs won in two straight sets.
Lansing improved its record on Friday with a 5-2 win over Odessa Montour at Lansing by easily winning all of the doubles matches. At first doubles, Bacorn and Gentile handily won their match 6-1, 6-1, while Hughes paired with Josh McGiff to defeat O-M at second doubles, and Schuster and Fleming (the "two Ashley's") took the thirds in two sets. Zarate and Ingalls were also victorious at second and third singles, while Engels (first) and Warkentin (fourth) were unable to pull off a win.
Monday's match at Thomas A. Edison proved to be brutal. With temperatures ranging in the 90's under relentlessly sunny skies, the Bobcats rallied through several exceptionally long matches to beat their hosts, 5-2. At first singles, Engels endured nearly two and a half hours of play, but came up short against his foe after three sets, finally dropping the match to Edison at 6-1, 3-6, and 3-6. Zarate, who also took his opponent to three sets, was victorious at second singles, while Ingalls and Warkentin dropped their competition in two straight sets. Bacorn and Gentile played a grueling three set match at first doubles to come up with the win, 7-6, 3-6, 6-5. Hughes and Sun won in two sets at second doubles, but Fleming and Schuster were unable to hold off the Edison third doubles team, dropping their match 1-6, 6-7.
In their seventh competition in a ten day period, the Bobcats blanked a youthful Union Springs team 7-0 on their home court on Wednesday, April 29. Ingalls rallied from a tough second set to beat his opponent in three sets, 6-1, 0-6, and 6-2. Engels, Sun and Warkentin completed the singles sweep for Lansing. The doubles teams of Bacorn and Gentile, Hughes and Schuster, and Fleming and fist-time varsity competitor Sunah Bong, each won easily in two straight sets.
Lansing will complete their regular IAC play with a match against undefeated Newark Valley at the opponent's court on Friday.
Photos by Richard Warkentin
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