Montrose tennis picks up 2nd win

BY COREY GESFORD

Correspondent

Led by the doubles teams of Seth Bulkley and Tyler Andre, and Jack Baker and Chris Miller, Montrose garnered its second win of the season with a 3-2 win over Riverside on Friday afternoon.

Andre and Bulkley defeated Charles Ponas and Drew Calianno 7-5 and 6-3 to claim Montrose’s second victory of the match, while Baker and Miller secured the match with 7-5, 3-6, and 6-0 win over Nick Ponas and Coby Sophabixamy.

In singles, Steven Vetri defeated Kyle Creedon in a pair of 6-2 sets to give Montrose its first win of the match. Billy Hotaling fell to Noah Jennings 6-4 and 6-2, while Kyle McGranaghan lost to Hunter Talipski 6-4 and 6-3

In a match held April 10, Montrose fell to Valley View 5-0. Jackson Griffiths and Andre won their first set 6-3 in doubles competition before dropping the final two and the match 5-7 and 2-6 to Franco Fajardo and Aaron Harrison. Tracy Kerr and Bulkley earned a victory in the middle set but lost to Francessco Pazzaglia and Bradley Good 6-2, 3-6, 6-4.

In singles action, Hotaling dropped a pair of sets to Carlos Possanaza 6-0, 6-1 and Vetri lost a pair of 6-0 sets to Ryan Carrotto. McGranaghan fell to Kevin Duffy 6-3 and 6-0.

The Meteors lost a close match to Honesdale 3-2 on Thursday. Vetri picked up a win in singles action over Ethan Rickard. After dropping the first set 6-3, Vetri won the final two sets 7-5 and a marathon 12-9 win to claim the match. Griffiths and Bulkley combined in double action to pick up a straight 6-4, 6-1 win over John Christiansan and Matt Wherman.

Kerr and Baker dropped the other double match 6-0 and 6-3 to Matt Tracy and Pat Tolerico. In the other Singles action, Hotaling lost 6-2 and 6-3 to Jason Demars, and McGranaghan fell 6-1, 6-0 to Shea Stanton.