Tennis: St. John’s win against always-tough Andover

St. John’s boys tennis coach Mark Metropolis picks his non-league matches carefully, and that’s why Andover is always on the list.And even though The Prep won Monday, 4-1, to raise its record to 7-0, the Golden Warriors gave several Eagles players all they could handle.”That’s a very strong program, and they’re always tops in the (Merrimack Valley Conference),” Metropolis said. “That’s why we play them.”In first singles, it was Chris Toner 6-3, 7-5; second: Nico Limacher 6-0, 6-1; third: Dan Cunningham 3-6, 6-1, 6-0; first doubles: Ian Wright-Alec McNiff 3-6, 6-4, 4-6; and second doubles: John Shaffer-Sean Nork 7-5, 6-7 (5-7), 10-8.Marblehead 5, English 0At Marblehead, The Magicians raised their record to 6-1 overall and 5-1 in the Northeastern Conference.In first singles, it was Miles Barry over Mike Gately 6-0, 6-1; in second singles, Griffin Butterfield beat Shivan Patel, 6-0, 6-0; at three it was Jason Frost over Joe Calnan 6-0, 6-0.In doubles, it was Ben Goldstein-Michael Forte over Billy You-Thomas Long, 6-3, 7-5 in first doubles and Jon Suydam-Brian Hough defeated Acevedo-Kenny Em, 6-0, 6-0, in second doubles.Winthrop 3, Classical 2At Lynn, the Rams (5-2) had wins from Nareth Say at second singles, 6-0, 6-1, and Rene Perez-Philip Chea at first doubles, but the third point proved elusive. Seng Ly lost a tough one at first singles, 7-5 (4-6), 3-6.Swampscott 4, Beverly 1At Swampscott, Matt Jacobs and Val Temin sailed in first and second singles, respectively, winning their matches 6-0, 6-0. The rest of the Swampscott (6-0) winners were: Sam Cremins-Matt Gilberg at first doubles (6-1, 6-1) and IanCremins-Mike Pindrus at second doubles (6-1, 6-4).Lynnfield 5, Newburyport 0At Newburyport, the Pioneers (3-1) first singles player James Hook (6-6, 6-4) set the tone. The rest of the winners for Lynnfield were Nick Romano, second singles (6-3, 0-6, 6-4); Eric Carey, third singles (6-2, 6-4); Luv Karia-Will Durkee, first doubles (3-6, 6-3, 6-4) and Michael Romano-Alex Rugato, second doubles (6-3, 6-0). Lynnfield is now 3-1.GIRLS TENNISClassical 5, Winthrop 0At Winthrop, Wendy Matanganyidze did not drop a game at first singles for Classical(6-0, 6-0). The freshman second doubles team of Anna Anthanasopoulos-BrianaSilva made their doubles debut a good one, winning 6-2, 6-0. The other Classical (3-4) winners were Ashley Ellis, second singles (6-1, 6-1); Kayla Braswell, third singles (6-0, 6-3) and Monivan Cheth-Messeret Kebede at first doubles (6-2, 6-3).Swampscott 5, Beverly 0At Beverly, the Big Blue dominated with Anna Raptunovich winning at first singles (6-2, 6-0); Vivien Gere, second singles (6-0, 6-2); Veronica Pyatigorskaya, third singles (6-0, 6-0); Allegra Walker-Jessica Zolott, first doubles (6-1, 6-3) and Natalyia Andrushchenkes-Michele Schnayder, second doubles (6-0, 6-0). Swampscott (7-0) plays undefeated Marblehead Tuesday night.Lynnfield 5, Newburyport 0At Lynnfield, the Pioneers (4-0) had wins from Kelley Nevils at first singles (6-0, 6-1);Ava Grava, second singles (6-0, 6-0); Alexa Douglas, third singles (6-3, 6-1); Logan Colby-Nunziato -Sloan Colby- Nunziato, first doubles (6-2-, 6-1) and Melanie Richard- Amanda Stelman, second doubles (6-1, 6-2).St. Joseph 5, St. Mary’s 0At GEEAA Field, Kat Troisi, Ana DeBernardo and Christina Hallisey all showed improvement as did freshman Adelina Katzounos, who paired with Lily Gardner at second doubles. The Spartans are 1-6.Peabody 5, Saugus 0At Peabody, in first singles, it was Rachel Gillis winning in three sets, 7-5, 4-6, 8-6; second singles: Winger Ma, 6-1, 6-0; third singles: Dany Chhan, 7-5, 6-4; first doubles: Anna Grimalyak-Tayla Hodas, 6-1, 6-1; and second doubles: Beverly Ejiofor-Eleni Petromelis, 6-3, 6-0.Peabody is 4-1 overall and 2-1 in the league.Steve Krause can be reached at [email protected].