Stonington - Unbeaten Stonington High School swept all three doubles matches to pull out a 5-2 girls' tennis victory over Woodstock Academy on Monday.
After splitting the four singles matches, the Bears (7-0) earned straight-set wins by the doubles teams of Lauren Valenti-Abby Volk, Emily Buxton-Hannah Fabianski and Gina Feliciano-Meg Rolfe.
Stonington's top two singles players - Annike Burgess and Chloe Slater - were straight set winners while No. 4 singles player Mollie Kam lost the best match of the day, a 3-6, 6-4, 7-6 decision to Woodstock's Aislin Myers.
In other matches:
• Lyman Memorial won two of the three doubles matches to sneak past Griswold 4-3 in the Eastern Connecticut Conference Small Division.
The Nos. 1 and 2 teams of Michelle Valliere-Maggie Tarbox and Kat Quarticelli-Camille Ruzel won for the Bulldogs (3-6, 2-2), who also got wins from Aurora Hooper and Katie Audet in singles. Griswold's Klejdja Qosja won the best match of the day by outlasting Holly Dutko 1-6, 7-5, 6-4 in a match that last nearly 3.5 hours.
Madison Ahearn and the No. 3 doubles team of Monique Maynard-Angeli St. Lot also won for Griswold (0-7, 0-3).
• Nora Sullivan survived a tough first set and won her No. 4 singles match 7-5, 6-1, helping Waterford roll to a 7-0 victory over New London.
Evelyn Luner, Nisha Rajamohan and Lauren Rahr also won singles matches for the Lancers (7-2), who also had doubles wins from Katie Hudson-Casey Corrado, Nicole Mooney-Tiffany Lee and Katryana Pierce-Brianna Vetel.
• Unbeaten East Lyme lost only two games in singles en route to a 7-0 win over Windham.
Joan Li, Sophi Shi, Sherry Yang and Melinda Li all won for the Vikings (8-0), as did the doubles teams of Liz Miller-Katherine Wu, Sagune Sarya-Carolina Casta and Samathan Hart-Shivani Dandekar.
• Megan Brooks and Sarah Slocum won a 7-5, 3-6, 6-1 match at No. 2 doubles to highlight Ledyard's 7-0 victory over Norwich Free Academy.
The Colonels (5-4) also earned doubles wins from the teams of Danielle Giggi-Emily Coon and Jordan Bierman-Shayla Johnson while Abby Jakuba, Callie Bateman, K.C. Wilson and Madi Blask were all straight-set singles winners. NFA is 3-3.
• Maura Brown's 7-5, 7-6 (5) win over Cassie Skelley had No. 1 singles highlighted Fitch's 6-1 win over Bacon Academy.
Alyssa Denno, Alison Nowak and Aileene Doyon also won singles matches for the Falcons (3-4), while the No. 1 doubles team of Becca Fox-Casey Seymour earned the lone win for Bacon (1-6).
• Killingly swept Montville, 7-0, in the ECC Small. The Indians fell to 0-6, 0-3.
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• Montville's No. 1 doubles team of Jack Greenwood and Branden Marino pulled out a 7-6 (2), 6-4 win to help the Indians win their first match with a 4-3 win over Killingly in the ECC Medium Division. Montville (1-4, 1-2) also got singles wins from Sean Rahusen, Nick Namin and Shawn Strouse.
• Fitch did not lose a set in posting an easy 7-0 victory over Bacon Academy. Nick Bonnassieux, Doug Singer and Joe Grant won singles matches for the Falcons (3-2), who also picked up doubles wins from Ryan Halperin-Srirni Srirangam, Jesse Moroyoqui-Niral Patel and Brandyn Young-Pete Houser. Bacon is 0-6.
• No. 2 singles player Casey Sartor and the No. 2 doubles team of Austin Almeida-Anthonoy Gallicchio won matches in Stonington's 5-2 loss to Woodstock. Woodstock's Dave Scott won the best match of the day at No. 1 singles with a 2-6, 6-4, 7-6 (4) win over John Skogerbee. Stonington is 4-4.
• Lyman Memorial's No. 1 doubles team of Tim Hennessey and Kyle Barrett did not lose a game in improving to 9-1 as the Bulldogs beat Griswold 7-0 in the ECC Small.
The teams of Chris Konow-Ian Montgomery and Ajay Gonnelli-Tony Huang also won for Lyman (6-4, 3-1) as did singles players Eric McGee, Ben Swinehart, Mason Madison and Parker Skaats. Griswold is 2-5, 1-2.
• Waterford improved to 8-1 with a 7-0 victory over New London. Dana Aing, Shashwat Kala, Matt Getty and Alan Luner were singles winners for the Lancers, as were the doubles teams of Tucker Murphy-Brett Pias, Ben Yao-Benny Dong and Sean Ryan-Nate Ashbey.
• Morgan White (6-0, 6-0), Dan Kurpaska (6-1, 6-0), Alex Brault (6-1, 6-0), Taavi Koiv-Haus (6-0, 6-1) and Stewart Ross (6-0, 6-0) won their singles matches in Old Lyme's 6-1 win over North Branford in the Shoreline Conference. The No. 2 doubles duo of Eric and Kevin Pan won 6-0, 6-0, for the Wildcats (10-1, 10-1).
• East Lyme won every match in straight sets, beating Windham, 7-0, to improve to 8-0. Andy King, Suryansh Patel, Hrishi Somayaji and Nick Hotary won singles matches.
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