After a victory over Allen and losses to Freedom and Liberty, the Bethlehem Catholic’s boys’ tennis team’s record was 8-6 as of last Friday, but their 4-3 loss to the Patriots was some of the best tennis the Hawks had played all season, according to Becahi coach George Harmanos.

It was the doubles matches that challenged both the Patriots and the Hawks.

Becahi’s number one doubles team of Sean Van Dormer and Dan Desher scored an 8-4 victory over Manas Singh and Paras Chand.

At number two doubles, David Napierkowski and Andrew Kaeser won 4-6, 6-1, 6-2 over Jon Fiorentino and Jonathan Chu.

“David Napierkowski and Andrew Kaeser put together their best two sets of the season after losing the first set at number two doubles,” Harmanos wrote in his Apr. 15 Season Update.

The number three doubles match also went to three sets with Freedom’s Austin Negron and Joel Veneracion prevailing over Grant Hicks and Hesshanth Jeyaranghan 2-6, 6-1, 6-0.

At number four doubles, Freedom’s Justin Szaro and Chris Fereno defeated Blues Xu and Matt Falteich 6-1, 7-6 (7-5). The Becahi pair just missed going to a third set after the second set tiebreaker.

In singles matches, Aidan Bodeo-Lomicky won at number one for the Patriots against Jack Jiang 6-0, 6-0, and Ross Sonnenblick won at number two, also for the Patriots, over Henry Gao 6-3, 6-0.

At number three singles, Becahi’s Colby Treadwell defeated Ronak Desai 7-5, 6-1.

“We both played pretty well in the first set, but after I won, I think he got frustrated, and I picked up on it,” Treadwell said. “I was up for most of the first set. I went down 5-4, but I knew I was in it, and I won the next three. I think that propelled me in the second set.”

Treadwell, a first-year varsity tennis player, leads the Hawks in singles wins.

This week, Becahi will take on Easton, and Freedom will face Liberty before the East Penn Conference Tennis Tournament which is scheduled for Thursday.