LaWade Garris and Fred Crawford win finals vs Lorna Secrest and Vince Romito

If you add up the total number of games for this match, you’ll find it exactly even at 13 games each. However, Fred and Lawade won the 3rd set and that was the difference in a 6-3,1-6,6-4 match over Lorna Secrest and Vince Romito on an early Sunday morning at the Highland Park Tennis Courts.

Lorna and Vince were undefeated during the regular season and had beaten LaWade and Fred after they had won the first set in a tiebreaker.  The weather was just too much for Fred and La Wade and they had to retire.

It was one of the toughest matches in vinnystennisleague in the Pittsburgh area.

2011 Mixed Doubles A scoreboard

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Ester Hoogstaden and Quirine Okonkwo accept trophy

Last year, Ester Hoogstaden and Quirine Okonkwo compiled a 5-0 record beating every team in their division and continued into the semi-finals against Sally Martin and Lorna Secrest with a 6-4,6-0 record.

This year it wasn’t much different except they were 6-0 during the regular season and won for the 2nd time against the team of Lorna and Sally.  The game totals were the same, 6-3,6-1.

 

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Domenick Barone Men's Singles C Winner

Domenick Barone was undefeated during the regular season until he came up against Brett Duncan and lost easily 6-2,6-0.  Brett Duncan was undefeated (4-0) but didn’t play enough matches to keep pace with Greg Diskin (4-2) who lost to Domenick in the finals

 

2011 Men’s Singles C

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Dan Healy wins Men's Singles B

Some say he should be in the A section and others say he’s where he should be, nonetheless Dan Healy won the Men’s Singles B Division of the Vinnys Tennis League of Pittsburgh.

Joe Kern who played more matches (11) in any division finished with a respectable 8-3 record but 2 of his losses were by identical scores and both to Dan. 7-5,6-2 in the finals and regular season.

Dan Healy 8-0
Joe Kern 8-3
Dave Kennard 6-1
Ryan Romano 2-4
Micah Chaney 2-0
Leonard Romito 2-3
Ross Grana 2-3
Michael Nelson 1-7
Jeremy Rubash 0-5
Chad Fleeger 0-2
Prathib Skandakumaran 0-1