The Whitehall tennis team took part in the Lehigh Valley Conference tennis tournament at Freedom on Monday.

Clement Mei and Rohit Gangapantulu came away with a win in their opening round of action at number-four doubles. They knocked off the team of Nick Melendez and Charles Albright of Dieruff 8-6. It marked the first win in the tournament for head coach Austin Berg. Mei and Gangapantulu would end up losing 8-0 to Parkland's Donovan Snyder and Peter Sohn, who went on to win the bracket.

"The second round they went against Parkland and we just aren't up to par with them at this point," said Berg, who still sees his team improving from match to match this year. "So there is definite improvement over last season and this team is extremely motivated."

Parkland won the team title with 28 points followed by Emmaus with 24 points. Freedom and Becahi tied for third with eight points.

"The progression up to this point has been great. It's about finishing out games and points now," said Berg. "I have almost all freshman, so to win games within matches is huge at this point. They just need to be able to finish out games and they will improve drastically."

Islam Ahmad lost his opening match at number-one singles to Liberty's Chris Kapcsos 8-2. Freedom's Andrew Sinai was the eventual champion. At number-two singles, Alex Rohn fell to Freedom's Bill Leeson 8-1. Parkland's Roshan Joshi was the eventual winner. Daniel Herrera lost to Liberty's Milind Jagota 8-3 at number-three singles. Pete Harrison of Parkland went on to win the bracket.

At number-two doubles, Whitehall's Reno Honzo and Max Muscher lost to Freedom's Evan Anthony and Doug Leeson 8-5. Top seed Ryan Jaeger and Mike Hensler of Emmaus were the winners.

At number-three doubles, the Zephs Tejwant Gomanie and Harshal Patel lost to Mark Suhr and Mike Fishler of Nazareth 8-1. Nate Lyman and Nishad Gothoskar of Parkland eventually won from the fourth seed.

Berg is hoping to use small victories like the ones at the LVC tournament as a springboard for future seasons for his young players. They just need to put in the work.

"They need to get to some camps in the offseason and practice for fun," Berg said. "They can even get some one-on-one coaching somewhere and next year could be a whole new scenario.

"I will be going over to the middle school at the end of the season to recruit for next year like I did last year. That is the best thing that I did last year because five of our players were at the meeting at the middle school last year."