ST. ALBANS — Middlebury Union High School boys’ tennis split two road matches late last week, defeating BFA St. Albans on Thursday, 7-0, and falling to U-32 on Friday, 4-3. The Tigers’ record is 4-2, and they are scheduled to host North Country on Monday at 3:30 p.m.
At St. Albans, Jesse Rubin at No. 1 singles, Spencer Doran at No. 2, and Sam Daly at No. 3 all won handily in straight sets. At No. 4 singles Hunter Munteanu won in a tiebreaker after splitting two sets decided by tiebreakers.
At No. 1 doubles Andy Giorgio and Abel Anderson won in straight sets.
Tiger No. 5 singles player Drew Kiernan and the No. 2 doubles team of Aiden Cole and Oliver Poduschnick both won by default.
On Friday the Tigers swept the doubles matches. Giorgio and Anderson defeated Finn Olsen and Kayl Humke (U-32), 6-0, 6-2, and Cole and Poduschnick defeated Malone Bruce and Calen Kirkpatrick (U-32), 4-6, 7-6, 1-0.
But the Raiders prevailed in four out of five singles matches for the victory. Daly at No. 3 topped Owen Mika-Smith (U-32), 6-3, 6-4, for the Tiger point.
At No. 1 Joe Franco (U-32) defeated Rubin, 6-1, 6-3. At No. 2 Basil Hume (U-32) defeated Doran, 6-1, 6-0, and at No. 4, Jake Bradley (U-32) defeated Munteanu, 6-3, 6-1. In what proved to be a pivotal match, at No. 5 Jack Morris (U-32) needed a tiebreaker to edge Kiernan, 6-3, 6-7, 1-0.