Hamilton won a couple of close matches in doubles to complete a 5-0 sweep of Herkimer in a Center State Conference boys tennis crossover match Wednesday afternoon.
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At first doubles, the Emerald Knights’ John Valencia and Tom Bodnar needed three sets to beat the Magicians’ Donnie Coleman and Paul Grubner 6-4, 4-6, 6-4. David Schutt and Andrew Powrie won two close sets over Herkimer’s Vito Carbone and Pat Malowski 6-4, 6-4 at second doubles.
Hamilton didn’t have quite the same difficulty in singles winning all three matches in straight sets.
At first singles, Gennady Julien defeated Robert Murphy 6-3, 6-2. At second singles, Josh Valencia downed Ryan Judd 6-2, 6-0 and at third singles, Ryan Burdick defeated Mike Clark 6-0, 6-0.
Herkimer dropped to 1-3 in the league and 1-5 overall.
WESTMORELAND 5
ILION 0
WESTMORELAND — Westmoreland lost just seven games in five matches to beat the Golden Bombers in a CSC crossover.
That included dropping just three games in singles where Josh Tayefeh defeated Ryan Donato 6-0, 6-1, Robert Barns downed Dominick Calhoun 6-0, 6-2 and Josh Deptola defeated Matt Pelletier 6-0, 6-0.
Wins in doubles came easily as well as Michael Hartwell and T.J. Losowski stopped Tony Schrader and Drew Alexander 6-0, 6-2 and Ian Dunning and Tyler Witter defeated Sal Calhoun and Kyle Howe 6-2, 6-0.
Ilion dropped to 2-4 on the season.
