Tennis: Classical girls qualify for tournament

The Classical High girls tennis team qualified for the state tournament Monday with a 5-0 win over Revere at Revere.The Rams are 8-5.?It feels good to make the state tournament,” coach Cathy Ellis said. “The girls were very excited.”Kayla O?Brien won at first singles, 6-2, 6-0; Anna Athanasopoulos, second singles, 6-0, 6-4; Meredith MacDonald, third singles, 6-1, 6-0; Katrina Syrakos-Linda Khuth, first doubles, 6-0, 6-1, and Janelle Way-Shea Dunnigan, second doubles, 6-2, 6-3.Swampscott 5, Gloucester 0At Swampscott, the Big Blue (9-2) qualified for the state tournament with wins from Anna Raptunovich, first singles, 6-0, 6-0; Vivien Gere, second singles, 6-0, 6-0; Veronica Pyatigorskaya, third singles, 6-0, 6-1; Jessica Zollott-Anya Peterson, first doubles, 6-0, 6-2, and Sarah Cunningham-Michelle Shnayder, second doubles, 6-1, 6-4. All three singles players competed in the state individual tournament at Lexington over the weekend. Raptunovich and Gere both advanced and will play again next weekend.Lynnfield 5, N. Reading 0At Lynnfield, the Pioneers (11-0) ran the table with wins from Sarah Mezini, first singles, 6-0, 6-2; Kelley Nevils, second singles, 6-1, 6-2; Katie Nevils, third singles, 6-4, 1-6, 10-6; Danielle Soden-Olivia Skelly, first doubles, 6-4, 6-3, and Logan and Sloan Colby-Nunziato, second doubles, 6-0, 6-0.Peabody 5, English 0At English, Rachel Gillis won at first singles, 6-0, 6-2; Kayla Hodas, second singles, 6-0, 6-0; Dany Chhan, third singles, 6-0, 6-1; Anna Erimalyak-Eleni Petronelis, first doubles, 6-4, 6-0, and Alisa Pereila-Tori Johnson, 6-4, 7-5. Peabody is 7-2, 6-0 NEC Large, 1-2 NEC Small).Beverly 4, Salem 1At Salem State University, the Panthers (6-6, 6-5 NEC Large) swept singles with Becah Kaplan winning first singles, 2-6, 7-4, 7-4; Sophie Claus, second singles, 6-4, 6-1; and Maddie Tremblay, third singles, 6-1, 6-1. Veronica Mun-Caroline Joseph took first doubles, 6-1, 6-3. Salem won second doubles in three sets.BOYS TENNISPeabody 4, English 1At Peabody, the Tanners (5-4) had wins from Scott Perlman, first singles, 6-4, 6-1; Djordge Samardzic, third singles, 6-7, 6-4, 10-7; Alex McDonough-Mike Nicoli, first doubles, 6-0, 6-2, and Steve Goggin-Sam Gottsegen, second doubles, 6-1, 6-2. English?s win came from Eddie Ayinla at second singles, 6-0, 6-4.Gloucester 3, Swampscott 2At Gloucester, the Big Blue (5-6) had wins from Ian Crimmins at second singles, 6-2, 4-6, 6-3 and Ruben Isagulov-Mike Pindrus, 6-2, 6-3, at first doubles. The match came down to first singles where Nassar Babayez lost a hard-fought three-setter, 6-4, 4-6, 1-6.Revere 3, Classical 2At King?s Lynne, the Patriots (2-9) survived the battle with Mathew Lopez getting the deciding point with a win at third singles, 6-1, 6-2; Danton Duque-Kont Lumaj, first doubles, 4-6, 7-5, 6-3, and Nelson Ortiz-David Grujic at second doubles, 2-6, 6-1, 6-4. Classical had wins from Calvin Cheung, first singles, 6-0, 6-2; and Eduard Trirog, second singles, 6-2, 6-3. Classical is 3-9.N. Reading 4, Lynnfield 1At North Reading, Will Durkee and Ethan Forrest picked up the Pioneers? (4-6) only win. They took their first doubles match, 6-1, 6-0.BC High 5, Marblehead 0At Marblehead, the Magicians tangled with the Division 1 state champions and put up a good fight despite being without their first singles player, Chris Wigglesworth, who was out with an injury sustained in the individual state tournament over the weekend.Miles Barry lost at first singles, 3-6, 3-6; Dimitri Vlassov at second singles, 3-6, 2-6; and Griffin Butterfield, third singles, 4-6, 3-6. In doubles, Michael Forte-Justin Faia went ahead in the first set, but lost 4-6, 2-6. In second doubles, Jatt Jaepsky-Felix Litvak lost 2-6, 6-2, 4-10.