The 2024 lehighvalleylive.com All-Area Boys Tennis Team

The 2024 lehighvalleylive.com All-Area Boys Tennis first team features three players from Moravian Academy and two each from Liberty, Emmaus and Nazareth.

The first team also has a representative from Saucon Valley, Allentown Central Catholic and Freedom.

The All-Area team honors standouts from schools in Northampton, Lehigh and Warren counties, as well as Palisades in Bucks County, Palmerton in Carbon County and North Hunterdon, Voorhees and Delaware Valley in Hunterdon County.

See the first, second and third teams below as well as the honorable mention selections.

First team

Deven Pandey

Junior

Saucon Valley

Pandey won his third consecutive District 11 Class 2A singles title. The junior only lost four total games in his first three victories of the district singles tournament and 10 overall games in all four of the tourney matches. He won the No. 1 singles bracket in the Colonial League tournament.

Chris Stone

Freshman

Emmaus

Stone, the fifth seed, won the District 11 Class 3A singles championship. The freshman won three of the four matches in the district tournament in straight sets. He was on the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference’s first team for singles.

Luke Appleman

Senior

Liberty

Appleman was voted the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference MVP. The senior joined forces with classmate Roman Farhad to win their second consecutive District 11 Class 3A doubles title. Appleman and Farhad advanced to the state semifinals and ended up finishing fourth in the PIAA tournament.

Roman Farhad

Senior

Liberty

Farhad teamed with senior Luke Appleman to win their second consecutive District 11 Class 3A doubles championship. The Hurricanes duo advanced to the state semifinals and finished fourth in the PIAA tournament. He won the No. 2 singles bracket in the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference tournament.

Ford Koch

Senior

Moravian Academy

Koch joined forces with sophomore Aveer Chadha to win the District 11 Class 2A doubles title for the second consecutive season. The senior was the runner-up in the district singles tournament. He also was the runner-up in the Colonial League No. 1 singles tourney.

Aveer Chadha

Sophomore

Moravian Academy

Chadha teamed with senior Ford Koch to earn the District 11 Class 2A doubles championship for the second consecutive year. The sophomore won the No. 2 singles title at the Colonial League championships. He reached the District 11 Class 2A singles semifinals.

Gideon Knowles

Junior

Nazareth

Knowles was the runner-up in the District 11 Class 3A singles tournament. The junior earned second-team All-Eastern Pennsylvania Conference honors. He teamed with Logan Baltz to reach the District 11 Class 3A doubles semifinals.

Tim Spinosa

Senior

Allentown Central Catholic

Spinosa teamed with Mack Zeller to reach the final of the District 11 Class 2A doubles tournament. The senior reached the district singles semifinals. He was a third-team All-Eastern Pennsylvania Conference selection.

Noah Rodburg

Junior

Freedom

Rodburg was voted as a second-team All-Eastern Pennsylvania Conference choice. The junior joined forces with Luke Braido to finish second in the District 11 Class 3A doubles tournament. He reached the semifinals of the district singles tourney.

Nick Stone

Junior

Emmaus

Stone finished in third place in the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference No. 1 singles tournament. The junior was recognized as a second-team All-EPC performer. He reached the District 11 Class 3A singles semifinals.

Max Abia

Freshman

Moravian Academy

Abia won the championship in the Colonial League No. 3 singles tournament. The freshman helped Moravian Academy earn its second consecutive District 11 Class 2A team title. He reached the district singles quarterfinals.

Ishaan Patel

Senior

Nazareth

Patel won the title in the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference No. 3 singles tournament. The senior teamed with Shivam Arora to reach the District 11 Class 3A doubles quarterfinals.

Second team

Sr. Logan Baltz, Nazareth

Fr. Manav Patel, Parkland

Sr. Luke Braido, Freedom

Sr. Mack Zeller, Allentown Central Catholic

Jr. Matt Keenan, Allentown Central Catholic

Jr. Kevin Yao, Parkland

Sr. Thomas Gilchrist, Parkland

Jr. Brian Yang, Moravian Academy

Jr. Harry Vicic, Moravian Academy

Sr. Jeffrey Holzbaur, Saucon Valley

Sr. Braeden Schriffert, Saucon Valley

Sr. Nolan Grejda, Salisbury

Third team

Fr. Shrenik Rakshit, Voorhees

Jr. William Morgan, Voorhees

Fr. Alex Ahnert, Southern Lehigh

So. Alexander Morawski, Saucon Valley

Jr. Louis Flowers, Saucon Valley

Jr. Eric Wu, Freedom

Sr. Leo Babbin, Liberty

Sr. Elijah Quan, Liberty

Jr. Connor Ohl, Liberty

So. Finn Brown, Liberty

Sr. Caden Vermuelen, Liberty

Jr. EJ Powers, Liberty

Honorable mention

Allentown Central Catholic: Sr. Ian Abbadessa, Jr. Aryaan Chauhan.

Bangor: Sr. Jonathan Frank, Sr. Josh Gallagher, So. Chayse Strohe.

Easton: Sr. Shahir Ali, So. Nicholas Ressler, Sr. Mahdi Shah.

Emmaus: Sr. Quaid Peatiwala, Sr. Ben Fletcher, Jr. Quinn Durkin, Fr. Caleb Brown.

Freedom: Jr. Angel Suarez, Sr. Joe Siessmayer.

Liberty: Jr. Ben Blum.

Moravian Academy: Jr. Hunter Zicherman, Sr. Jackson Reid.

Nazareth: Jr. Shivam Arora.

Notre Dame: So. Nico Guet-Cruza, Fr. Ricardo Ulecia, Fr. Joseph Cortez, Fr. Liam Behrens, Sr. Colin Boyle.

Northampton: So. Chace Roland, Jr. Max Kochan, Sr. Dane Missmer, Jr. Joseph Tomaro.

North Hunterdon: Jr. Christian Vandergroot, Jr. Tyler Brittain, Jr. Lucas Wojdyla.

Palisades: Jr. Gavin Yost, So. Andrew Woertz, Jr. Colby Mosinskis, Fr. Layne Liberg, Fr. Dakoda Underkofler.

Palmerton: Sr. Colby Chadwick, Jr. Jared Reinhard.

Parkland: Sr. Ojas Karandikar, Sr. Yechan Cho, Jr. Ryan Wu, Sr. Matt Ringold, Jr. Jack Chu, Fr. Noah Elijovich.

Pen Argyl: So. Mason Soos, Jr. Blake Boyer, Jr. Hunter Beers.

Phillipsburg: So. Ayush Shroff, Jr. Adam Debaieb.

Salisbury: So. Christian Marinos, Sr. Blaine Berger, Sr. Ahmed Suleiman, Sr. Han Kloosterman, Sr. Ian Young.

Saucon Valley: Sr. Sebastian Jaramillo-Zamora, Sr. Will Nagy.

Southern Lehigh: Sr. Thomas Conrad, Sr. Andrew Yanega.

Voorhees: Fr. Christopher Carlucci, Jr. Nicholas Brechka, Fr. Grayson Schultze.

Wilson: Jr. Ian Quick, Jr. William Brown.

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Josh Folck may be reached at jfolck@lehighvalleylive.com.