Marlboro junior Grace Messenger is a Mid-Hudson Athletic League champion for the fourth time. This time, Messenger claimed her first singles title. Messenger defeated Wallkill’s Emily Savage, the top seed and defending champion, 7-5, 6-0. She had won three MHAL doubles titles with her older sister, Emma. Messenger avenged regular-season losses to Savage and second-seeded […]
Washingtonville freshman Jalynn Balleste captured her first Orange County Interscholastic Athletic Association singles title with a 6-0, 6-0 win over Monroe-Woodbury seventh-grader Maeve Cassidy. Warwick’s Jackie Grundfast and Ava Ghobadian of Warwick defended their doubles title, defeating Newburgh Free Academy’s Isabelle Goings-Perrot and Riddhi Patel 6-2, 6-1 OCIAA championships (at Match Point Tennis, Goshen) Singles […]
Defending champions Jackie Grundfast and Ava Ghobadian defeated teammates Gabby Donohue and Samantha Killin 6-2, 7-5 to advance to the Orange County Interscholastic Athletic Association semifinals at Match Point Tennis in Goshen. Grundfast and Ghobadian, the top seed, will meet teammates Uliana Kitar and Stephanie Menoutis, the fourth seed, at 10 a.m. Friday at Match […]
Two of the area’s top girls tennis players have decided to train and compete in United States Tennis Association junior tournaments over high school this fall. The departure of two-time defending Section 9 champion Jane Bockman, a Goshen sophomore, and Valley Central junior Kortney McHalle, a 2016 state qualifier, makes Washingtonville freshman Jalynn Balleste one […]
Section 9 champion Lucas Arora will face fourth-seeded Ryan Fishback in the opening round of the state singles championship at the National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows Thursday morning. Arora, a Cornwall junior, takes a 21-0 record into the match. Newburgh Free Academy’s David Salazar and Troy Steiner, the Section 9 doubles champions, meet Olean’s […]
Cornwall junior Lucas Arora, the top seed, rolled to the semifinals without losing a game in two matches on the first day of the Section 9 championships. Arora defeated Roosevelt’s Cory Gallinger 6-0, 6-0 in the round of 16 and topped Millbrook eighth-grader Sophia Feigelson 6-0, 6-0. Feigelson beat James I. O’Neill’s Ted Northup 4-6, […]
Cornwall sophomore Dan Leach has received a medical waiver from Section 9 to compete in its tennis tournament after he was cleared to compete by a doctor Friday afternoon. Leach defaulted and missed the qualifying Orange County Interscholastic Athletic Association championship this week after becoming ill during a practice session Wednesday. The waiver was granted […]
The third time was a charm for Cornwall junior Lucas Arora. Arora won his first Orange County Interscholastic Athletic Association singles title in his third straight finals appearance, defeating Goshen’s Lucas Irace 6-0, 6-2. Warwick’s Pearse Algiere and Dean Redmond claimed the school’s first OCIAA doubles title since 1990, ousting Newburgh Free Academy’s David Salazar […]
Cornwall sophomore Dan Leach defaulted out of the Orange County Interscholastic Athletic Association tournament after coming down with an illness. Leach, a three-time OCIAA and Section 9 doubles champion, was the third seed. Cornwall junior Lucas Arora, the top seed, advanced to the semifinals with a 6-0, 6-0 win over James I. O’Neill’s Ted Northup. […]
Top-seeded David Salazar and Troy Steiner of Newburgh Free Academy advanced to the OCIAA semifinals with a 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 win over Cornwall’s Emil Vyskocil and Reilly Chin Wednesday at Match Point Tennis in Goshen. Read here for more on Salazar and Steiner win. Salazar and Steiner will meet their teammates Jack Clayton and Matt […]