Pearl River Takes Doubles Crown in League 4B Boys Tennis

The team of Jeremy Rosen and Sam Berry of Pearl River won the doubles title in the League 4B Boys Tennis Tournament Wednesday at Pearl River. 

The final day of the championship competition was a Pirates-Indian affair as Pearl River and Nyack both placed two teams in the semifinals.

In the day’s opening matches Rosen and Berry ousted Nyack's Carlos Mangirang and Michael Okamoto by scores of 6-2, 6-2. The Indians’ Lyndon Nicholas and Scott Guinn emerged with a hard fought  6-4, 7-5 straight-set victory over the Pirates’ Neil Francis and Brendan McIntyre.

In the championship match Rosen and Berry won by scores of 6-4, 6-2. 

“Despite the momentum shifting on several occasions, we kept to our strategy, kept the ball in play and worked well together,” Rosen said.

Kevin Quill of Nanuet defeated teammate Anthony Pelio, 6-0, 6-0, for the singles title in a championship held Wednesday at Nanuet.

Quill and Pelio join Michael Zebiak of Tappan Zee and Satawa of Nyack who move on to singles play in the conference tournament next Tuesday and Wednesday, May 17 and 18 at Clarkstown South.

The four doubles semifinalists and the teams of Marinucci and Mike Mihovics of Albertus Magnus, Kirsch and Ramos of Nyack, Baroni and Mahabir of Nyack, and Jewel and Jacob Kotch of Tappan Zee also move on to the conference tourney.

The conference competition includes teams from League 4B (small schools) Albertus Magnus, Nanuet, Nyack, Pearl River and Tappan Zee and League 4A (large schools) Clarkstown North, Clarkstown South, East Ramapo, North Rockland and Suffern. The top three singles players and top three doubles teams will earn the right to advance to sectional play on May 24 and May 25 at A. F. Veteran Town Park in Ardsley.