Henry Goings-Perrot and Alex Cestaro blew through their Orange County Interscholastic Athletic Association boys’ tennis semifinal match.
The championship match wasn’t so easy.

The Newburgh Free Academy doubles team forced a tiebreaker before losing the first set and nearly forced a tiebreaker in the third as they fell to Washingtonville’s Matt Medina and Tyler Yhun in Friday’s championship match at MatchPoint Tennis in Goshen.

The loss in the championship match doesn’t mean their season is over, however. When they advanced to the quarterfinals, they assured themselves a berth in this week’s Section 9 tournament, also this week, where they may have an opportunity to avenge Friday’s loss to medina and Yhun.

Goings-Perrot, who won the Section 9 doubles championship last season with Aarav Shah, returned to the doubles with the Goldbacks’ second singles player, Cestaro for the postseason.

They entered the tournament as the top seed and opened with a 6-3, 6-1 win over Cornwall’s Tyler Lane and M.J. Ihim on Thursday. That win qualified them sectionals and they reached the semifinals with a 6-0, 6-1 win over Middletown’s Anthony Russo and Vincent Russo.

That sent them to Friday, which they opened by ejecting Beacon’s Frank Zezza and Charlie Klein, 6-0, 6-0, in the semifinals.

They are the only Newburgh players advancing to the section 9 tournament.

Newburgh’s other doubles entry of Leo Guzman and Josiah Placide were eliminated in the second round when they were beaten, 6-0, 6-2 by Monroe-Woodbury’s Riley Konior and Pravin Jegan in the second round. They beat Warwick’s wen Beauregard and Connor Brogan, 6-2, 6-4 in the first round.

Newburgh’s lone singles entry, Jake Radermacher, was eliminated by Kingston’s Eli Loewen, 6-1, 6-1 in the first round.