Harvey Tennis Undefeated in HVAL

Harvey traveled to South Salem on Friday for a match with South Kent and came away with a convincing 6-3 victory. Once again Harvey was lead by Ben Shapiro who won 10-0. Robbie Reeder followed up with a 10-5 victory at #2 singles. Carlo Civita was strong at #4 singles winning 10-2, and co-captain Gretal Coleman pulled out a 10-7 victory at #7 singles. Harvey also won #1 and #2 doubles 8-7 and 8-3 respectively. Although losing very close matches, Matt Bernhard, Josh Suna, Lauren Shevit and Rachel Costa all put up valiant efforts. Harvey improved to 3-0 in the league and 3-2 overall.

In a hard fought match The Harvey School came away with a tight 5-4 victory over the New York Military Academy last Wednesday. Harvey started strong with convincing 10-1 wins by Ben Shapiro and Matt Bernhard at #1 and #2 singles respectively. However, NYMA came back strong sweeping the next four singles matches. Harvey had to sweep all three doubles matches or face the prospect of our first league defeat since 2006. Ben Shapiro and Justin Bernstein dominated at #1 doubles with an 8-2 victory followed by the #2 doubles team of Carlo Civita and Matt Bernhard winning 8-3. It all came down to the #3 doubles team of Josh Suna and Elliott Greenham. Quickly they fell behind 1-4, but they refused to lose as they ran off five straight games and eventually won 8-6 ensuring that the Harvey win streak stayed intact._