CCHS Boys Tennis Sweeps Arlington 5-0

The Concord-Carlisle High School boys tennis team won its second match of the season by sweeping Arlington High School 5-0 on Tuesday.

C-C won each match played – three singles and two doubles, where a tiebreaker was needed to decide one of the doubles.

“They haven’t played a whole lot together,” said CCHS coach Alex Spence, referring his Patriots team. “We’ve practiced a lot, mostly indoors because of the weather, but it’s good to get out and compete because you don’t really know how you’re really playing until you’re playing competition.”

In singles, Concord-Carlisle’s No. 1 singles player and two-time defending state champion, senior Alex Steinroeder, beat Arlington (3-2) senior Matt Lipinski 6-1, 6-0.

Alex Schmidt took the second singles victory against Arlington’s Matt Johnstone, 6-0, 6-2. And in the final singles to wrap up, and the second-to-last match overall, Concord-Carlisle senior Erik Dinardo beat Arlington’s Gherardo Coroccillo 7-5, 6-4. Coroccillo is an exchange student from Italy.

In doubles, Patriots Matt Japko and Josh Zirkel defeated Arlington’s Graham Opie and Travis Cuddy, 6-2, 6-4, in the No. 1 spot.

And in the final game of the day, Tim Kleyn and Adam Shoemaker made it 5-for-5 for C-C, as they beat Arlington’s Nick Coleman and Trevor Hass in a tiebreaker, 6-2, 5-7, 1-0 (10-5).

“(I told Kleyn and Shoemaker) just to calm down … just to settle in and try to play together as a team. Go point to point,” Spence said about giving the boys a pep talk before their tiebreaker. “I think they were trying to think too much.”

Next up, Concord-Carlisle hosts Bedford High School on Wednesday at 3:45 p.m.

“I don’t really know (how the match will go.) Year to year it changes so much, whose playing,” Spence admitted. “They’re a DCL team, I’m sure they’ll be good.”