East Lyme boys open season with easy win
East Lyme — East Lyme open its season with an easy 7-0 victory over New London in an Eastern Connecticut Conference Division I boys' tennis match on Monday.
The Vikings, the reigning division champion, did not drop a set. They picked up singles wins from Finn Power, Davon Chen, Sumeet Kadian and Eric Gu posted singles along with doubles wins from the teams of Sujesh Kurumbail-Conrad French, Jonathan Tan-Guillen Colom and Alex Li-Ethan Stewart. The Whalers fell to 1-1, 0-1. In other matches: • Stonington's Sean Bessette outlasted Greg Vilardo of Bacon Academy in the No. 2 singles match 6-3, 2-6, 7-6 (5), leading the Bears to a 5-2 win in their ECC Division II season opener. William Michelson, Kyle Remmert and Filip Aubrecht also won their singles matches for Stonington (2-0, 1-0).
• Mathew Krick and Chris Russo both won their respective matches as Fitch swept Norwich Free Academy 7-0 in the season-opening match for both teams in ECC Division I. Noah Kennedy and Andy Trinh also won at number one doubles for the Falcons.
Girls
• Woodstock Academy won three of four matches that went three sets to outlast Waterford 4-3 in an ECC Division II match. Sophie Wang rallied for a 3-6, 6-4, 6-3 win at No. 1 singles for the Lancers (2-1, 0-1), while Stacey Tasloulas added a win at No. 3 singles as did the No. 3 doubles team of Nitya and Nidi Somineni.
• Shauna Kim, Colleen Keller, Mary Kathrine Taylor and Ashley Brown all won singles matches in straight sets as East Lyme opened with a 7-0 win over New London in an ECC Division I match. The Vikings also picked up doubles wins from Erin Peterec-Neha Ande, Emily Zhu-Liz Beaulieu and Sophie Arustei-Becca Pagglioli. New London is 1-1, 0-1.
• Gabby Dellacono, Charlotte Johnstone, Makenzie