While most of the spring sports teams will see their first official games this week, the Northampton boys tennis team is almost a third of the way through its 17-game regular season schedule.

The Kids opened with a with a 5-2 loss to Bangor, a 4-3 win against Pleasant Valley, a 6-1 victory over East Stroudsburg North and a 7-0 loss to EPC title contender Liberty.

On Tuesday on the windswept Carbone Courts, the K-Kids took on Lehighton in a non-league contest. The Indians came out on top 6-1, although the team result belies the closeness of the individual battles. Three matches went to three sets and five sets went to tiebreakers with Northampton on the wrong side of each one.

At first singles, junior Pearce Foulk dropped one of the three setters, 4-6, 6-2, 4-6, to Aaron Miller. Miller was a District XI AA quarterfinalist last season.

At second singles, senior Logan Carbonell was nipped 5-7, 6-7 (6-8) by Luke Blauch.

In the third singles spot, senior captain Ian Pearn fell to Daniel Hoppes 3-6, 0-6.

Off their run to the state basketball quarterfinals, the Harris brothers, Isaac and Isaiah, kept up their pattern of playing dramatic contests as they went three sets with two tiebreakers. Despite having been up 5-1 in the third set, they came out on the short end of the score, 6-7 (1-7), 6-1, 6-7 (1-7) in the number one doubles slot versus Ben Slaw and Bayto Cokrlija.

At second doubles, sophomores Brennan Grover and Bennett Smith lost to Owen Kovach and Zane Smith 6-7, 3-6.

Third doubles was the last match to finish and a tiebreaker was played in place of the third set. Sophomores Dane Missmer and Lucas Vadelund went down 3-6, 7-5, 1-7 to Edie Cordes and Lucas Schatz.

The K-Kids broke through at number four doubles when freshman Brett Bastian teamed up with senior Justin Miller for a 6-0, 6-3 win against Celia Fisher and Anya Shorten.

Head coach Daniele Bowman described her expectation for the team this year.

“We have a young team. We have two returning starters, Logan Carbonell and Pearce Foulk. The rest we have a very young group, but they’re all very eager to learn the game. It’s nice to have matches right away so they get the experience of playing, but now they know what they need to work on in practice.”