Martlets Defeat Berkshire

The boys came back from winter vacation ready to go, and came out strong on the restart with a solid 6-1 effort against Berkshire. The match was overall closer than the scores, with many of the boys requiring 4 games to finish their matches. The first round of matches saw the even numbers playing first. First off was Steven Xie ‘26 at #8, who won routinely and quickly dropping a total of 8 points in the entire match. Nick Dowling ‘24, Phil Zhang ‘24, and Daniel Edwards ‘24 all played very competitive matches at numbers 2,4 and 6 respectively. Dowling split the first two games before dropping the third game 10-12, and ran out of steam in the 4th game. Zhang won a very competitive first game 14-12, before continuing the momentum to win the final two games 11-6 and 11-9. At #6, Edwards also split the first two games before stepping up his game to win the final two games 11-6, 11-3. As the first round was coming to a close, Charlie Raymond ‘24 won quickly and efficiently at #7, and dropped a total of 9 points throughout his match. Robert Yalda ‘24 and Ryan Sohn ‘27 were next to finish. Yalda played some tight games throughout, but was able to win all 3 to seal the team win for the Martlets. Meanwhile, Sohn played a very solid first two games (8,7) before dropping the third game 8-11. However, he rebounded nicely to take the final game 11-7. Finally, last off the court was Mark Yang ‘26 at #1. After dropping a very close first game 13-15, he rebounded nicely to win the last three games. Connor Scollans ‘26 played well and won quickly in an exhibition match at #9. The boys were excited to get their first win of the season. We will be in action on Wednesday, when we host Salisbury at 2:30pm.