The Deerfield boys JV tennis team (2-5) survived a bear walking through the pre-match introductions to defeat the Westminster School on May 1st on the road. The matches were all played in an 8-game, pro-set format without ads and doubles and the 5 and 6 singles matches began simultaneously. The doubles matches together counted as one point, so there were a total of 7 points in the match. Deerfield won 2 out of the 3 doubles matches to win that point, while the first two singles matches were split. As the top four seeds began singles play, Deerfield only needed to split the four to win the overall match. Fortunately, that’s exactly what happened and Deerfield were able to win the match 4-3.
#1 singles Thomas Unkles ’25 8-2
#2 singles Isaac Shobola ’27 3-8
#3 singles Jack Webb ’27 1-8
#4 singles Finn Knight ’25 8-2
#5 singles Mike Lee ’24 0-8
#6 singles Rowan Heithoff ’24 8-2
#1 doubles Jack Webb ’27/Thomas Unkles ’25 8-3
#2 doubles Matteo Stewart ‘24/Alex Ayres ’24 4-8
#3 doubles Ryan Stenzler ‘27/ Isaac Shobola ’27 8-3
The boys JV tennis team have two matches in a row coming up in the next few days, both at home. Choate Rosemary Hall will visit on May 4th for a 3:30 pm match, followed by local rival Bement School on May 6th at 4 pm.