Abington Heights is looking to make it a baker\u2019s dozen.<\/p>\n
The undefeated and dominant boys\u2019 tennis program takes the courts at Kirby Park on Tuesday morning, set to play in the District 2 Class 3A Team Championship semifinals in a quest for a 13th straight title.<\/p>\n
The Class 3A semifinals start at 1 p.m. Top-seeded Abington Heights (13-0) plays No. 4 Hazleton Area (6-7), and second-seeded Valley View (12-4) plays No. 3 Crestwood (8-5). The winners advance to the final at 3 p.m.<\/p>\n
The Class 2A semifinals are scheduled for 11:30 a.m., with the final at 2:15 p.m.<\/p>\n
Abington Heights won all of its matches this season by shutout.<\/p>\n
Prayush Mallaiah (13-0), William Arp (13-0), and Brady Comstock (12-0) are unbeaten in singles matches. More impressive is that they have not lost a set.<\/p>\n
The team\u2019s depth is evident in doubles. Liam Farrell, an All-Region player last season and a District 2 Class 3A doubles champion with Brady Comstock, teams with Bryce Comstock this season. Brody Goldberg and Sebastoan Meyer earned a forfeit win against Scranton in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n
Hazleton Area defeated Wyoming Valley West, 4-1, in the quarterfinals. Mateo Feola and Hernan Arias lead the Cougars.<\/p>\n
Valley View won six of its last seven matches to reach the semifinals. Nick Burak leads the Cougars at No. 1 singles. Billy Giovagnoli and Kevin Dougher are solid at No. 2 and No. 3 singles. All three had straight-sets wins in a quarterfinal shutout of Delaware Valley.<\/p>\n
Kevin O\u2019Shea and Cooper Rawlings, the Cougars\u2019 No. 1 doubles team, have only one loss this season, and Hunter Kissell and Tyler Bradock earned a three-set win against Delaware Valley.<\/p>\n
Spencer Young and Jack Groth earned wins at No. 2 and No. 3 singles to lead Crestwood into the semifinals with a 3-2 win over West Scranton last week.<\/p>\n
Holy Cross (12-1) is in the semifinals in Class 2A. The Crusaders\u2019 only loss this season came against Abington Heights.<\/p>\n
Alex Harrison (12-1), Ray Zhang (12-1), and Alfred Butts (12-1) swept the singles matches to help push Holy Cross past Dunmore in the semifinals.<\/p>\n
Dallas (12-1) finished second to Wyoming Seminary in the Wyoming Valley Conference regular season. The Mountaineers reached the district semifinals with a 3-2 win over MMI Prep, with Andrew Avila providing a win at No. 3 singles. The team of Preston Harris and James Rakos, and the team of Nathan Eyet and Zane Drezek had wins in the doubles matches.<\/p>\n
Nate Linnen is Dallas\u2019 No. 1 singles player, and Theo Barr is at No. 2 singles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Abington Heights is looking to make it a baker\u2019s dozen. The undefeated and dominant boys\u2019 tennis program takes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[305,178,180,179,726],"class_list":["post-184047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-high-school-sports","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}