Long Island Boys High School Preview: Cold Spring Harbor Chasing Fourth Straight Boys High School Crown

March 15, 2011 | By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
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The last three high school seasons on Long Island have been dominated by one team … Cold Spring Harbor, winners of three straight Long Island High School Boys Tennis Championships. With nearly their entire team intact again this season and seven ranked USTA junior players, Cold Spring Harbor is the favorite to take home the title again in 2011. The question this year is … “Can Cold Spring take home their fourth consecutive title or will another team step up and knock off the defending champs?”

Cold Spring Harbor is led by their first singles player, Josh Levine (who finished second in both the Nassau County and New York State Championship). Also in the mix for CSH is an arsenal of players, including second singles Eric Ambrosio (who finished third in the Nassau County Individual Championships) and the first doubles team of Jensen Reiter & Alex Tropiano (who finished fourth in the Nassau County Boys High School Championships) amongst others. Cold Spring Harbor’s top seven players are all ranked USTA players.

Challenging Cold Spring Harbor will be difficult, but two teams with a good shot from Nassau County are Long Beach and Jericho. Long Beach will be led by Eric Rubin & Matt Barry. The team of Rubin & Barry play singles during the season, but teamed up to win the Nassau County Doubles Championship in 2010. Jericho, led by first singles player Sam Lam, who finished fourth in the Nassau County Singles Championships, will also be sure to contend this season, looking to knock off Cold Spring Harbor.

In Suffolk County, defending Suffolk County Champion Half Hollow Hills East is eager for another shot at Cold Spring Harbor and their chances are improved with the return of first singles player Zain Ali, who finished fourth in the Suffolk County Individual Championships, and the doubles team of Chris Hunter & Eric Bertuglia, who won the Suffolk County Doubles Championship in 2010.

Best of luck to all the schools in 2011 and keep reading Long Island Tennis Magazine for updates throughout the 2011 boys high school season. We welcome you to submit any match recaps to www.longislandtennismagazine.com.

 


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