Bishop Guertin's Aditya Prasad hits a return during the Cardinals' 9-0 Divison I tourney prelim win over Manchester Memorial Tuesday at BG. (Telegraph photo by TOM KING)

The Bishop Guertin High School boys tennis team enjoyed something it hasn’t experienced in several years:

A playoff win.

No. 6 Guertin rolled over No. 11 Manchester Memorial in the Division I preliminary round Tuesday and that now sets up a quarterfinal with No. 3, 12-2 Nashua South on Thursday at South.

Meanwhile, speaking of South, the Panthers got a great pitching performance from lefty Nick Shaw to blank Bedford at Holman Stadium.

For more details on these and other local games on Tuesday, read on:

BOYS TENNIS

DIVISION I PRELIMS

NO. 6 BISHOP GUERTIN 9, NO. 11 MANCHESTER MEMORIAL 0

The Cards are now 12-3 after a fairly easy sweep of the Crusaders, led by No. 1 Dean Liakos (8-3), No. 2 Gavin Bombara (8-6), No. 3 Wyan Wallat (8-1) and the final three on the ladder, in order: Aditya Prasad (8-6), Will Moynihan (8-4) and Ronan Bradshaw (8-2).

The doubles teams of Liakos/Bombara (8-4), Wallat Prasad (8-3) and Sean Finnegan/Moynihan (8-5) also won.

Of course, now the Cards face a bigger challenge on Thursday. South won the regular season matchup 8-1 back on April 14.

“It was early in the season, so we were still getting the cobwebs out,” Guertin coach Tom Lizotte said. “But we’ve had a number of good wins. Now we’ve had the whole season, we’ve been practicing, we’ve been sharper. Hopefully everybody’s kind of come into their game and we can give them a much better run. That’s my hope.”

NO. 5 DOVER 5, NO. 12 NASHUA NORTH 4

The Titans (5-10) did just that against a Dover team that had roughed them up 8-1 during the regular season. North’s season may have ended, but at least they had a better feeling.

“We gained some modicum of redemption,” North coach Rob Trowbridge said.

Standouts for North were Jack Desjardins, Jason Pecoraro and Navein Sribalaran, accounting for al four of North’s points.

Dover (12-3) moves on to face No. 4 Derryfield. The other quarters are No. 8 Keene at No. 1 Hanover and No. 7 Exeter at No. 2 Bedford.

BASEBALL

NASHUA SOUTH 3, BEDFORD 0

Shaw tossed a complete game, striking out one and allowing five hits — three the Bulldogs Armand Roleau — as the Panthers improved to 12-5 with their fifth straight win.

Offensively, Dean Adams had a two-run single in the first, plating Albert De La Rosa (singled) and River Hart (doubled).

Adams drove in the third run with a base hit in the fifth, scoring Hart, who advanced to second on deep De La Rosa flyout and stole third. Hunter Ward played flawless defense at second with six assists

South is at Manchester Central-West on tonight at Gill Stadium. The Bulldogs fell to 10-8.

SOFTBALL

ALVIRNE 1, BEDFORD 0 (8 innings)

The Broncos moved to 10-6 with their fifth straight win, a walkoff in the bottom of the eighth in what had been a scoreless game.

Alvirne hosts Dover today at 4 p.m.

GIRLS LACROSSE

BISHOP GUERTIN 17, SALEM 8

Guertin finshes the regular season at 15-1-1, with four hat tricks: Anna Campel (four assists), De Moyer (three assists), Abbey Cannon (three assists) and Kam Schmitt.

Kyra O’connell had two goals while single tallies were by Maddy Hartsock, Mikhaila Mendell and Abby Dicomes.

Maddy Eder Linell had 10 saves in the Guertin net.

SOUHEGAN 17, NASHUA NORTH 2

The Sabers (nine straight, 12-3) continue their fine season as Elle Stevenson had vive goals, two assists and four draw controls, and Abby Giannetti added two goals while Lyla Kimall had two goals, an assist, three draws, three ground balls. Maddie Limhad two goals, an assist, draw and four grounders.

Other key contributors for the Sabers included: Mackenzie Crestinger (goal, draw), Emma Kennedy (goal, assist, two draws, three ground balls), Natalie Heimarck (goal, assist, draw, ground ball), Riley Devine (goal, assist, two grounders), McKenzie Berry (goal), Lyla Hawkes (goal, two assists, ground ball) and Brooke Fallon (two draws, two ground balls).

Souhegan wraps up the regular season today at Portsmouth. The Titans fell to 3-14 and wrap up the season today at Stellos vs. Merrimack.

BOYS VOLLEYBALL

PINKERTON 3, BISHOP GUERTIN 1

The Cards fell to 2-11, winning set No. 3, 25-23, but they fell in the others 25-18, 25-21 and 25-19.

Trent Rider led BG with 11 kills, while Sam Kouchalakos had five kills and Will Howell added five kills and two blocks.

BG hosts Mascenic today.

HOLLIS BROOKLINE 3, LONDONDERRY 0

The Cavaliers improved to 12-2 after a 25-23, 25-20, 25-12 sweep.

Jake Laborde led the way with 12 kills and three aces, while Aidan Norris added nine kills, 11 digs.

Also for HB John Sommer (eight kills, three aces) and Ethan Norris (29 assists, three aces) helped out.

HB hosts Keene on Thursday in a fundraiser for the Kendall Van Schoick Scholarship Fund.

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