| BOYS TENNIS |
| Smithtown 4 Kings Park 3 |
| Babylon 6 West Babylon 1 |
| Mt. Sinai 6 Miller Place 1 |
| Longwood 7 Shoreham-Wading River 0 |
| Hauppauge 4 Deer Park 3 |
| Southampton 7 Hampton Bays 0. Newsday, Combined editions; Long Island, N.Y. [Long Island, N.Y]. 24 Mar 2001 |
| BOYS TENNIS |
| Commack 4 Whitman 3 |
| Lindenhurst 6 Central Islip 1 |
| Brentwood 5 West Babylon 2 |
| Middle Country 4 Patchogue-Medford 3 |
| Stony Brook 6 Bayport-Blue Point 1 |
| Huntington 4 Half Hollow Hills East 3 |
| Half Hollow Hills West 7 Smithtown 0 |
| Hauppauge 4 Northport 3 |
| Kings Park 6 Glenn 1 |
| West Islip 4 Bay Shore 3 |
| East Islip 4 Islip 3 |
| Ward Melville 4 Longwood 3. April 4 |
| BOYS TENNIS |
| Longwood 4 Sachem 3 |
| Southampton 4 Southold 3 |
| North Babylon 7 Central Islip 0 |
| Kings Park 5 Brentwood 2 |
| Ward Melville 5 Bellport 2 |
| Westhampton 7 Shoreham-WR 0. Newsday, Combined editions; Long Island, N.Y. [Long Island, N.Y]. 05 Apr 2001 |
| BOYS TENNIS |
| Huntington 5 Commack 2 |
| Half Hollow Hills West 5 Whitman 2 |
| Half Hollow Hills East 6 Smithtown 1 |
| Bay Shore 5 Connetquot 2 |
| Islip 5 West Islip 2 |
| Lindenhurst 7 Deer Park 0 |
| Port Jefferson 4 Longwood 3. April 19 |
| BOYS TENNIS |
| Glenn 6 Hauppauge 1 |
| Huntington 7 Islip 0 |
| Ward Melville 5 Southampton 2 |
| Westhampton 5 Longwood 2 |
| Bellport 5 Southold / Greenport 2 |
| Mt. Sinai 5 Comsewogue 2 |
| Kings Park 5 Harborfields 2. April 21 |
| BOYS TENNIS |
| Central Islip 4 West Babylon 3 |
| Sachem 5 Sayville 2 |
| Longwood 4 Bellport 3 |
| Miller Place 4 Floyd 3 |
| EH/Bridge/Pierson 7 Shoreham-WRiver 0 |
| Westhampton 6 Southold / Greenport 1 |
| Glenn 5 Lindenhurst 2 |
| Patchogue-Medford 4 Comsewogue 3 |
| East Hampton 4 Longwood 3. April 25 |
BOYS TENNIS
| Longwood 4 Ward Melville 3 |
| Rocky Point 4 Miller Place 3 |
| Riverhead 4 Hampton Bays 3 |
| Mattituck 5 EH/B’hampton/Pierson 2 |
| Westhampton 4 Southampton 3 |
| Sachem 6 Mt. Sinai 1. May 1 |
BOYS TENNIS
| Babylon 5 Bay Shore 2 |
| Bellport 6 Patchogue-Medford 1 |
| Brentwood 7 West Babylon 0 |
| Half Hollow Hills East 5 Whitman 2 |
| Half Hollow Hills West 5 Commack 2 |
| Huntington 6 Smithtown 1 |
| Islip 5 Connetquot 2 |
| Kings Park 4 Glenn 3 |
| Longwood 6 Middle Country 1. May 2 |
BOYS TENNIS
| Longwood 5 Sachem 2 |
| Floyd 4 Riverhead 3 |
| Ross 5 Hampton Bays 2 |
| Westhampton 7 Shoreham-Wading Riv 0 |
| Southold / Greenport 4 Southampton 3 |
| Patchogue-Medford 4 Middle Country 3 |
| Port Jefferson 6 Mt. Sinai 1 May 5 |
Division III -At Longwood
Singles: Quarterfinals-No. 1 Andrew Hart (Longwood) defeated Jason Kahn (PJ), 6-0, 6-0. No. 4 Rich Hunt (Bellport) def. No. 5 Eric Weinstein (Ward Melville), 3-6, 6-3, 7-5. No. 3 Matt Gallin (WM) def. John Baldwin (Longwod), 7-5, 6-4. No. 2 James Carpenter (Sayville) def. No. 7 Greg Washington (Middle Country), 6-4, 6-0. Semifinals: Hart def. Hunt, 6-1, 6-1. Carpenter def. Gallin, 6-1, ret. Doubles: Quarterfinals-No.1 Kensun Gong-Jon Lum (WM) def. No. 8 Peter Mackey- Henry Wang (SB), 6-3, 6-1. Adam Gordon-Brian Bennett (Sachem) def. Chris Yantz-Matt Bernholc (WM), 5-7, 6-3, 7-5. No. 6 Eric Pratt-Brad Fishberger (PJ) def. No. 3 Nick Klaiberg-Matt Herbert (Sachem), 6-4, 6-4. No. 2 Gary Laux-Matt Hershcovitch (Mt. Sinai) def. No. 7 Brian Kearney-Arte D’Antonio (Sachem), 6-1, 6-1. Semifinals-Gong-Lum def. Gordon-Bennett, 6-4, 6-0. Laux-Hershcovitch def. Pratt-Fishberger, 7- 5, 6-1. Newsday, Combined editions; Long Island, N.Y. [Long Island, N.Y]. 13 May 2001:
Division III – At Longwood
Singles: Finals – No. 1 Andrew Hart (Longwood) def. No.2 James Carpenter (Sayville) 2-6, 6-2, 6-2. Consolation – No. 4 Rich Hunt (Bellport) def. No. 3 Matt Gallin (Ward Melville), inj. retired. Doubles: Finals – No.1 Jon Lum and Ken Som Gong (Ward Melville) def. No. 2 Gary Laux and Matt Hershcovitch (Mt. Sinai), 6-1, 6-0. Consolation – No. 6 Eric Pratt and Brad Fishberger (Port Jefferson) def. Adam Gordon and Brian Bennett (Sachem), 6-1, 6-1. Newsday, Combined editions; Long Island, N.Y. [Long Island, N.Y]. 15 May 2001:
It Was All a Matter of Hart / Longwood sophomore outlasts Arons to take Suffolk tennis title: [NASSAU AND SUFFOLK Edition]
Jason Molinet. STAFF WRITER. Newsday, Combined editions; Long Island, N.Y. [Long Island, N.Y]. 22 May 2001
It was tense and terse and unpredictable and fantastic all at once. In other words, it was high school tennis as it’s rarely seen. Half Hollow Hills West’s Andrew Arons and Longwood’s Andrew Hart exchanged barbs and volleys over three sets yesterday at Shoreham- Wading River with the Suffolk boys tennis title on the line.
The match required more than one meeting at the net to discuss points, and the opposing coaches to serve as line judges. Trash talk flowed freely while the threat of rain hung over the match. Momentum turned faster than the Wheel of Fortune.
And then it all came to a sudden and unlikely end when Arons smashed a volley into the net. Hart punched the sky and let out a yelp. Arons tossed his racket like a discus.
Even though Hart entered the tournament with the top seed and an unblemished record, his 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 victory over second-seeded Arons was remarkable in so many ways. Not since Hills West’s David Graziani beat Patchogue-Medford’s Scottie Backman in a three-set final in 1993 has there been a more thrilling finish.
“I knew I had nothing to lose,” Hart said. “I went in knowing it was going to be tough. But I can stay in any match, even when I’m losing. It’s a matter of heart.”
Hart, just a sophomore, became Longwood’s first county champion in tennis, and he upended someone with a lot of history and experience in his corner. The Yale-bound Arons not only plays for one of Long Island’s most successful programs, he is the younger brother of Ian Arons, who won a pair of Suffolk tennis titles in 1995 and ’97.
It went bad for Arons, who reached the quarterfinals as a junior last year, when he blew a 4-2 edge in the second set. That’s when the coaches were called in to serve as line judges.
“It was more a match against myself,” Arons said. “It was all up to me and I just beat myself. I got angry and I let it affect me.”
The consolation final was no less dramatic, and even more was at stake. The top three finishers advance to the state championships, which begin May 31 at the National Tennis Center, and No. 4 Bay Shore junior Peter Titus rallied from a 5-3 second-set deficit to beat No. 3 Sayville senior James Carpenter, 7-5, 7-5. It was a breakthrough performance for Titus, who had lost in the first round of the county tournament the previous three seasons.
“I was just trying to make [Carpenter] tired going into the third set,” Titus said. “I really didn’t think I’d come back to win the second set.”
Disbelief was the only way to describe what happened to the Hills West doubles tandem of senior Bryan Meltzer and junior Eric Siegel. One year after winning the Suffolk doubles title, the duo lost in the consolation final to Huntington’s Rob Guido and Jesse Moskowitz, 6- 5, 7-5.
“Last year everything went right,” Siegel said. “This year the inches that make up every match didn’t go our way.”
The top-seeded Hills East senior duo of Jordan Thompson and Matt Segal, first-round losers last year, won the doubles title with a 6- 4, 6-4, win over Southampton’s unseeded team of Jeremy Essay and Scott Gerbereux.
“Last year we missed out and it killed me inside the whole year,” Segal said. “This feels amazing to do it.”
BOYS TENNIS
Team Tournament
First Round
Mattituck 5, Longwood 2: Matt Doroski and Andrew Huey defeated Mike Gatto and Shawn Flood, 6-3, 7-5, in third doubles in the deciding match for No. 5 Mattituck.David Stearns defeated John Baldwin, 7-5, 3-6, 6-4, in second singles for Mattituck. Andrew Hart defeated Matt Szpakowski, 6-0, 3-6, 6-4, in first singles for No. 12 Longwood. Mattituck faces Half Hollow Hills West at 4 p.m. Monday in the quarterfinals. Newsday, Combined editions; Long Island, N.Y. [Long Island, N.Y]. 31 May 2001:
Suffolk champion Andrew Hart of Longwood beat Jordon Smith of Binghamton (IV), 6-1, 6-7 (9-7), 6-4. In doubles, Port Washington’s Joshua Weissburg and Manuel Bulauitan, Half Hollow Hills East’s Eric Segal and Jordan Thompson, and Huntington’s Rob Guido and Jesse Moskowitz advanced. Newsday, Combined editions; Long Island, N.Y. [Long Island, N.Y]. 01 June 2001: