In their annual boys tennis showdown, Liverpool proved just a little bit better than Cicero-North Syracuse, prevailing in a 4-3 decision on Thursday afternoon. It turned on the Warriors winning three of the four doubles matches, none tougher than Pat Kenney and Steve Schneider needing three sets to get past Scott Frye and Sean Starkweather 7-6, 4-6, 6-3. Otherwise, Joe Corcoran and Luke Donigan swept past Phillip Knoop and Tyler Smith 6-4, 6-3, with Karl Miller and Mike Schneider gaining a 6-3, 6-0 win over Ryan McCarthy and Jake Werksman. CNS got a point when Colin Crooks and Dave Scorzelli beat Bogdan Grynyk and Anthony Taormina in straight sets 6-4, 6-1. CNS also won two of the three singles matches. Anthony Mann got past the Warriors’ Jason Lam 6-2, 5-7, 6-1, while Ryan Adams fought past Jason Lam 7-5, 6-4. Liverpool’s Chris Brais won in first singles over Kevin Tubolino 6-3, 6-0. A day earlier, the Warriors improved to 5-3 on the season by handling Utica Proctor 6-1.
Liverpool swept all the singles matches. Chris Brais overcame a rough second set to beat Kevin Vo 6-4, 0-6, 7-6, while Andrew Nguyen handled Jimmy Lien 6-3, 6-4 and Jason Lam beat Matt Wozny by those exact same scores. Moving to doubles, Joe Corcoran and Luke Donigan dominated Justin Pham and Alex Vujanic 6-1, 6-0, with Bogdan Grynyk and Anthony Taormina doing the same to Mike Baron and Nethablay Htoo 6-0, 6-1. Karl Miller and Mike Schneider had a 6-0, 6-0 shutout of Dan Guarno and Oleg Verenich.