Cold Spring Harbor Edges Syosset to Win Nassau County Championship
Two familiar foes met in the Nassau County Boy's High School Tennis Finals on Monday afternoon at Garden City High School. The Cold Spring Harbor Seahawks and the Syosset Braves, who were both undefeated this season, met to decide who would be County champion and in the end, Cold Spring Harbor edged Syosset for the 4-3 victory.
"Every game in many of our matches today were very tight," said Cold Spring Harbor Coach Ben Marks. "We just pulled out some key points, and in the end, we were able to come away with a victory."
Marks added that his team beat Syosset by the same exact score last season.
The Seahawks took an early 2-1 lead as the singles matches wrapped up with the Mullins Brothers, Conor & Sean, defeating their opponents in straight sets. Conor knocked off Syosset's Dan Shleimovich 6-2, 6-2 in first singles, and Sean defeated Henry Tell, 6-0, 6-1 in second singles. Syosset's Dylan Granat beat Jay Burkett 6-3, 6-0 in third singles.
The crowd of spectators moved to the doubles courts to see who would pull out victories to help their team in their quest for the County title.
First doubles was the next match to wrap up with CSH's JP Paris & George Carmi winning a tightly contested 6-4, 6-4 battle over Austin Ash & Rihi Ishikawa.
Down 3-1, Syosset needed three straight victories to pull off the comeback.
After losing 6-0 in the first set, CSH's third doubles team of George Muller & Greg Kaplan held their ground to win a tough second set, 6-3 and pull out a hard fought third set, 6-3 to seal the win for the Seahawks.
In second doubles, Syosset's Nikhil Raj & Spencer Lowitt beat A.J Arena & Nick Stamatos 6-1, 6-7, 6-2. In fourth doubles, Chad Kagan & Adam Canarick of the Braves defeated CSH's Eli Reid & Chase Delancourt 6-1, 6-3.
