BY
JERRY LIPTAK
The Pelham boys tennis
team shut out Monadnock in
its season opener, 9-0.
Top-seeded Scott Connatser
defeated Alex Ball, 8-2,
while Pelham’s No. 2 player,
Brad Shapiro, bested Evan
Barlow, 8-5. The Connatser-
Shapiro doubles team beat the
Ball-Barlow duo as well, 8-2.
Ryan Fyfe won the No.
3 singles match, edging Andrew
Becklo, 8-6.
David
Pereira handled James Brady
at No. 4, 8-3. It was more of
the same in doubles, as Pelham’s
Fyfe-Pereira team won,
8-5, over Becklo-Brady.
Jon Wallace defeated Josh
Rudolph in the No. 5 match,
8-6, and Brady Tryon had no
trouble with Harry Durfee at
No. 6, 8-1.
Wallace-Tryon handled
Rudolph and his doubles
partner, Peter Nikiforakis.
Though the girls lost to
Monadnock, 7-2, there were
two bright spots for the Lady
Pythons – Taylor LaPointe
beat Monique Giroux in the
No. 3 battle, 8-6, and No. 6
seed Nicole Mastacouris
edged Allison Dreyfuss by
the same score.
LaPointe and Erika
Mogauro, Pelham’s No. 3
doubles team, dropped a 9-
7 decision to Monadnock’s
Emma Strandfeldt and Catherine
Seltzer. Jacky Ta lost
a heartbreaker at No. 5 to
Strandfeldt, 9-7.
Meghan Szmyt, Shannon
Krauss and Dawn Ely also
competed for Pelham.