West Scranton\u2019s Matthew D\u2019Augostine reached the semifinals of the District 2 Class 3A Singles Championships on Thursday.<\/p>\n
In the Class 3A tournament, top-seeded Prayush Mallaiah and No. 2 seed William Arp continued their undefeated seasons for Abington Heights. They are each in the semifinals. Mallaiah will face D\u2019Augostine, who is the No. 5 seed, and Arp will play Wyoming Valley West\u2019s Gadgidas Reisinger, the No. 3 seed.<\/p>\n
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The four players who led their teams to the District 2 Class 2A Team Championships final will square off in the semifinals. Top-seeded Billy Hall, of Wyoming Seminary, last season\u2019s runner-up, faces Holy Cross\u2019 Ray Zhang, the No. 4 seed. In the other matchup, Holy Cross\u2019 Alex Harrison, the second seed, will play Wyoming Seminary\u2019s Dhru Sudhakar, the No. 6 seed.<\/p>\n
The tournament continues with semifinals on Friday at Kirby Park at 1 p.m. The championship finals follow.<\/p>\n
D\u2019Augostine defeated Pittston Area\u2019s Artur Biksey, 6-0, 6-0, in the second round, then battled past Scranton\u2019s Tom Bergman, the No. 4 seed, 6-2, 7-5, to reach the semifinals.<\/p>\n
Mallaiah and Arp won their matches in straight sets. Mallaiah defeated Hazleton Area\u2019s Jayden Forte and Crestwood\u2019s Jack Groth, 6-0, 6-0. Arp beat Hazleton Area\u2019s Mateo Feola, 6-0, 6-0, and Crestwood\u2019s Sean Rossi, 6-1, 6-0.<\/p>\n
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Reisinger defeated West Scranton\u2019s Aaron Castro, 6-0, 6-0, and Valley View\u2019s Nick Burak, the No. 6 seed, 6-2, 6-2, to prevent an all-Lackawanna League semifinal.<\/p>\n
Hall defeated Dunmore\u2019s Keegan Oprisko, 6-1, 6-0, and Dallas\u2019 Nate Linnen, the No. 8 seed, 6-1, 6-0. Sudhakar had three wins on Thursday. He defeated Tunkhannock\u2019s Martin Ortiz, 6-1, 6-0, Wyoming Area\u2019s Trevor Winslow, 6-0, 6-0, and MMI Prep\u2019s Max Bleiler, the No. 3 seed, 6-1, 6-2.<\/p>\n
Zhang had a win over Tunkhannock\u2019s Lucas Mateus, 6-0, 6-2, and Honesdale\u2019s Lewis Smith, the fifth seed, 6-0, 6-1. Harrison defeated Dallas\u2019 Theo Barr, 6-1, 6-0, and North Pocono\u2019s Billy Barker, the No. 7 seed, 6-1, 6-1.<\/p>\n
DISTRICT 2 SINGLES CHAMPIONSHIPSCLASS 2A<\/p>\n
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First round<\/p>\n
1-Billy Hall (Wyoming Seminary); BYE; Keegan Oprisko (Dunmore) over Joseph Allegrucci (Wyoming Area), 6-2, 6-1; Matthew Cohen (Scranton Prep) over Daniel Dudrick (Holy Redeemer), 6-1, 3-6, 6-2; 8-Nate Linnen (Dallas) over Gabriel James (Mid Valley), 6-1, 6-0; 5-Lewis Smith (Honesdale) over Tyler Matreselva (Lake-Lehman), 6-0, 6-0; Jack Farrell (MMI) over Nate Hook (Berwick), 6-0, 6-0; Lucas Mateus (Tunkhannock) over Liam Maughan (North Pocono), 6-0, 6-2; 4-Ray Zhang (Holy Cross), BYE;<\/p>\n
3-Max Bleiler (MMI), BYE; Nate Aviles (Dunmore) over Paul Dominick (Scranton Prep), 6-3, 6-1; Trevor Winslow (Wyoming Area) over Frank Klimovitz (Holy Redeemer), 6-1, 6-4; 6-Dhru Sudhakar (Wyoming Seminary) over Martin Ortiz (Tunkhannock), 6-1, 6-0; 7-Billy Barker (North Pocono) over Ethan Johnson (Mid Valley), 3-6, 6-3, 6-1; Michael Reiprich (Honesdale) over Ethan Packer (Berwick), 6-0, 6-1; Theo Barr (Dallas) over Peter Liepach (Lake-Lehman), 6-0, 6-0; 2-Alex Harrison (Holy Cross), BYE.<\/p>\n
Second round<\/p>\n
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1-Billy Hall (Wyoming Seminary) over Oprisko, 6-1, 6-0; 8-Linnen (Dallas) over Cohen, 6-3, 6-0; 5-Smith (Honesdale) over Farrell, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4; 4-Ray Zhang (Holy Cross) over Mateus, 6-0, 6-2; 3-Bleiler (MMI Prep) over Aviles, 6-0, 6-0; 6-Sudhaker (Wyoming Seminary) over Winslow, 6-0, 6-0; 7-B. Barker (North Pocono) over Reiprich, 6-3, 6-1; 2-Alex Harrison (HC) over Barr, 6-1, 6-0.<\/p>\n
Quarterfinals<\/p>\n
1-Hall (Wyoming Seminary) over 8-Linnen, 6-1, 6-0; 4-Zhang (Holy Cross) over 5-Smith, 6-0, 6-0; 6-Sudhaker (Wyoming Seminary) over 3-Bleiler, 6-1, 6-2; 2-Harrison (Holy Cross) over 7-B. Barker, 6-1, 6-1.<\/p>\n
Friday\u2019s semifinals<\/p>\n
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at Kirby Park, 1 p.m.<\/p>\n
1-Hall (Wyoming Seminary) vs. 4-Zhang (Holy Cross); 6-Sudhaker (Wyoming Seminary) vs. 2-Harrison (Holy Cross)<\/p>\n
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CLASS 3A<\/p>\n
First round<\/p>\n
Jayden Forte (Hazleton Area) over Jasper Hathaway (Wallenpaupack), 6-2, 6-1; Artur Biksey (Pittston Area) over Preston Smith (Wyoming Valley West), 6-2, 1-6, 6-1; Nat Carso (Delaware Valley) over Robert Fuentes (Wilkes-Barre Area), 6-2, 6-0; Aaron Castro (West Scranton) over Eli Wilson (Delaware Valley), 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (8); Nick Jones (Pittston Area) over James Busso (Wallenpaupack), 6-3, 3-6, 6-4; Mateo Feola (Hazleton Area) over Josiah Angel (Wilkes-Barre Area), 6-0, 6-0.<\/p>\n
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Second round<\/p>\n
1-Prayush Mallaiah (Abington Heights) over Forte, 6-0, 6-0; Jack Groth (Crestwood) over Kevin Dougher (Valley View), 6-7 (5), 7-5, 6-4; 5-Matthew D\u2019Augostine (West Scranton) over Biksey, 6-0, 6-0; 4-Tom Bergman (Scranton) over Carso, 6-4, 4-6, 6-4; 3-Gadgidas Reisinger (Wyoming Valley West) over Castro, 6-0, 6-0; 6-Nick Burak (Valley View) over Jones, 6-0, 6-1; Sean Rossi (Crestwood) over Veer Patel (Scranton), 6-0, 6-1; 2-William Arp (Abington Heights) over Feola, 6-0, 6-0.<\/p>\n
Quarterfinals<\/p>\n
1-Mallaiah (Abington Heights) over Groth, 6-0, 6-0; 5-D\u2019Augostine (West Scranton) over 4-Bergman, 6-2, 7-5; 3-Reisinger (Wyoming Valley West) over 6-Burak, 6-2, 6-2; 2-Arp (Abington Heights) over Rossi, 6-1, 6-0.<\/p>\n
Friday\u2019s semifinals<\/p>\n
at Kirby Park, 1 p.m.<\/p>\n
1-Mallaiah (Abington Heights) vs. 5-D\u2019Augostine (West Scranton); 3-Reisinger (Wyoming Valley West) vs. 2-Arp (Abington Heights)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Scranton\u2019s Matthew D\u2019Augostine reached the semifinals of the District 2 Class 3A Singles Championships on Thursday. In…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[63318,83505,83506,83509,83504,178,180,179,83508,5554,83507,16206,83503],"class_list":["post-187123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-abington-heights","tag-alex-harrison","tag-billy-hall","tag-hazleton-area","tag-holy-cross","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-semifinals","tag-west-scranton","tag-william-arp","tag-wyoming-seminary","tag-wyoming-valley-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187123","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=187123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}