Northampton Community College
Tennis
Eastern Pennsylvania Athletic Conference Tennis
Championship
Reading, Pa. - The EPAC tennis championships were played today at the Hillcrest Racquet Club in Reading, Pa. The Championships developed into a classic struggle between the favorites and league co-champions Northampton CC and Delaware CCC, with Delaware coming away with the win scoring 35 points to Northampton's 34.
The Spartan men's doubles team of Kyle Manley and Geoff Hart started the day off strongly for the Spartans by winning the championship by defeating Kamin Chu and Nick Sworob of Delaware 6-1, 6-0. In the men's singles, Northampton's Raidy Alaveraz made it to the semi-finals before losing to Delaware's Sam Spector 6-3, 6-3.
On the women's side, Northampton's Nicole Sarga and Ashley Gildner avenged an earlier season defeat by defeating Delaware's Cassidy Branigan and April Philips in the doubles finals 6-4, 2-6, 6-1.., in an extremely hard fought match. The championship was finally settled late in the evening when Delaware's Barnigan defeated Northampton's Sharge 6-4, 6-4 in the women's singles finals.
Northampton's Manley, Hart, Sharga and Gildner were named to the All-Tournament Team as well as All-Conference.
L-R: Joel Aranda, Kyle Manley, Geoff Hart, Raidy Alvaraz
Ashley Gildner, Nicole Sharga
Final Point Standing:
Delaware 35 - Northampton 34 - Bucks CCC 18 - CC of Phil. 5 - Harrisburg ACC 3
Northampton completed the duel meet season 7-1
Northampton CC 2013 Tennis Schedule
Tuesday - April 2- @ Bucks - 3PM
Spartans open Season @ Bucks County Community College
With a 7-0 Victory
The Northampton CC Tennis Team traveled to Bucks CCC to open the 2013 tennis season and came away with a solid victory. The Spartans enter the season with a young and inexperienced team with only Nicole Sharga returning from last year's EPCC championship team. While the Spartans are in a rebuilding stage they have had an excellent Spring in spite of the weather conditions and seemed to handle the cold, windy and generally hostile conditions for today's match better than Bucks.
The Spartans opened the match securing the doubles point by sweeping the three doubles matches. Kyle Manley & Raidy Alvarez def. Mehul Shen 8-1, Geoff Hart & Joel Aranda def. Rohit Samuel & Michael Peacher 8-0 and Nicole Sharga & Ashley Gildner def.Joanna Gocan & Fnu Chime 8-1.
The Spartans continued their domination of Bucks by sweeping all of the singles matches. Manley def. Shen 2-6, 6-3, 7-6 (8-6); Alvarez def. Miller 6-1, 6-0; Hart def. Samuel 6-0, 6-0; Aranda def. Peachey 6-0, 6-1; Sharga def. Gocan 6-1, 6-1; Lucia Montes def. Chime 6-1, 6-1.
Northampton will have a much stiffer test tomorrow when a very good Delaware CCC team comes to the Spartan Courts.
Wednesday - April 3 - Delaware @ Home - 3PM
Spartans Defeat Delaware CCC 4-3 In A Tightly Contested Match
On another cold windy afternoon the Northampton CC tennis team started the match with Delaware CCC at 3 pm and emerged four plus hours later with a hard fought win. The victory, which was not decided until the last two matches were completed, could have gone either way and had everyone in suspense until the players came off the court.
The match started with Northampton winning the doubles point, which turned out to be a major factor in their victory. Klye Manley & Geoff Hart (N) lost to Sam Spector & Imade Osifo 8-3; Raidy Alvarez & Joel Aranda (N) defeated Kanan Chu & Nick Sworbo 8-5; Nicole Sharga & Ashley Gildner (N) def. Cassidy Branigan & April Phillips 8-4 to win the doubles point.
With the doubles point in hand the Spartans had to win three of the six singles matches. Delaware won at the #1-2 on the men's side and Joel Aranda & Ashley Gildner won at the #4 and #2 positions for the Spartan's. That is when the match became intense. To win the match the Spartan's had to secure one of the two remaining points and Delaware had to win both. Nicole Sharga #1 and Geoff Hart #3, playing next to each other, had everyone's attention. Both Sharga & Hart lost their first set and Northampton looked to be set up to lose their first match in over two years. Both Northampton players knowing what was on the line played with incredible desire knowing that one of them had to win to secure the victory. Hart finished slightly before Sharga and came away with a 4-6, 6-1, 7-5 victory to officially end the match. Sharga walked off the court fifteen minutes later exhausted, losing her first match as a Spartan, 7-5, 6-7 (9-7), 7-6 (7-2)
Monday - April 8 - Harrisburg @ Home - 4PM - Won by Forfeit
Wednesday - April 10 - Philadelphia @ Home - 3PM - Won by Forfeit
Saturday - April 13 - @ Harrisburg - 1PM - Won by Forfeit
Tuesday - April 16 - Bucks @ Home - 3PM
Northampton Defeats Bucks County Community College 6-1
After a rainy start and work to dry the courts, it turned out to be a great day to play tennis at the Spartan Tennis Center. Northampton played well and secured another victory over visiting Bucks CCC. Once again the Spartans opened play by winning the doubles point, taking two of the three doubles matches. Nicole Sharga & Ashley Gildner, Raidy Alvarez & Joel Aranda remain undefeated in doubles play.
The Spartans then continued their domination in singles by sweeping five of the six singles matches.
Singles - Mohammad Ammoni (B) def. Kyle Manley 6-0, 6-0; Raidy Alvarez (N) def. Michael Peachey 6-0, 6-1; Geoff Hart (N) def. Rohit Samuel 6-0, 6-0; Joel Cherniloff 6-0,6-2; Nicole Sharga (N) def. Fnu Chime 6-0, 6-0; Lucia Montes (N) def. Joanna Gocan 6-1, 7-5
Doubles - Ammoni & Cherniloff (B) def. Manley & Hart 8-4; Alvarez & Aranda (N) def. Peachey & Samuel 8-0; Sharga & Ashley Gildner (N) def. Gocan & Chime 8-0
Monday - April 22 - @ Delaware - 3PM
Spartans Suffer Setback 4-3
The NCC tennis team knew that traveling to Delaware CCC and coming away with a victory would be a huge challenge. While Northampton defeated Delaware 4-3 in a tightly contested match at home they also were aware that a single point change would also change the outcome. That point change came with the Spartans' dropping the doubles point to open the match. Nicole Sharga & Ashley Gildner who had defeated Cassidy Branigan & April Phillips in the first matchup had the tables turned on them this time by defeating them 8-4 to secure the doubles point for Delaware.
The singles matches went the same as the first match with the Spartans' winning three matches and Delaware winning three.
Singles - Sam Spencer (D) def. Kyle Manley 6-1, 6-2; Kaman Chu (D) def. Raidy Alvarez 6-3, 6-3; Geoff Hart (N) def. Nick Sworbo 6-1, 6-4; Joel Aranda (N) def. Sedrix Yera 6-0, 6-2; Cassidy Branigan (D) def. Nicole Sharga 6-1, 6-1; Ashley Gildner (N) def. April Phillips 6-2, 4-6, 7-6 (8-6)
Doubles - Spencer & Chu (D) def. Manley & Hart 8-4; Alvarez & Aranda (N) def. Sworbo & Yera 8-4; Cassidy & Phillips (D) def. Sharga & Gildner 8-4
* Geoff Hart & Joel Aranda completed the duel meet season undefeated at the #3 & #4 positions. Raidy Alveraz & Aranda were undefeated at the #2 doubles position.
Thursday - April 25 - @ Philadelphia - 3PM - Won by Forfeit
Saturday - April 27 - EPAC Championship Tournament
Hillcrest Racquet Club, Reading, Pa.