Weston Swings Past Tyngsboro, 5-0

The weather has not been very accommodating but nothing seems to be stopping the Weston boys tennis team early in the season.

After last Wednesday’s rainout against Lincoln-Sudbury, the Wildcats (2-0) were forced indoors and took care of business with a 5-0 rout over Tyngsboro at The Longfellow Club in Wayland.  Two consecutive shutout wins for Weston to start the season has second-year head coach George Conlin thinking about the big picture.

“The key was finding some indoor courts,” joked Conlin.  “But really it is no fun this time of year and to get a match in is great but you can really only do so much.”

With No.1 and No.2 singles stars, Will Spector, who is ranked #2 in the state by tennisrecruiting.net, and Rutendo Matingo, taking the night off, the defending D3 State Champions still cruised to a sweep in singles and doubles action.

Trevor Sands replaced the senior Dual County All-Star Spector in No. 1 singles and dispatched Nat Hall 6-2, 6-1 in straight sets while Max Legocki followed up with a 6-0, 6-1 win over Paul Sickinger. 

Robert Beams was perfect in the third slot of singles play with a 6-0, 6-0 victory over Eric Heller.

In doubles, Weston was hardly challenged and only dropped one game with Kar Epker and Ben Spector defeating Jeff Miller and Chris Michaud 6-0, 6-0 as Akash Agarwal and Greg Sanda cruised to a 6-0, 6-1 win over the Tigers’ Roman Greco and Steve Geffroy. 

“With the way the conference is set up, we get a lot of work early on as the schedule starts off easier and then progressively gets harder,” said Conlin.  “There are huge benefits playing in our division when it comes to states (playoffs) as we get to face Concord-Carlisle, Acton-Boxborough, Newton South – all bigger schools with great tennis programs – so [the division] is one of the greatest advantages for [Weston].”

Next up for the Wildcats is another in-conference road trip but, again, only a short jaunt down Route 30 to face cross-town arch-rival Wayland tomorrow.