Domingo Reynoso fires a forehand return for Nashua North during Tuesday's season opener vs. Pinkerton in Nashua. (Telegraph photo by TOM KING)

Rob Trowbridge felt he could learn a lot about his Nashua High School North tennis team by how it played in its season opener vs. Pinkerton.

He found out they can be resilient and win a close one, and he didn’t have to wait a week do discover that. A few schools, like North, moved their Wednesday season opening matches to Tuesday due to the dire rain-sleet-snow forecast for the next few days. Here are the results from the courts, with some track and field as well:

BOYS TENNIS

NASHUA NORTH 5, PINKERTON 4

The Titans pulled out a thriller in Nashua, with Rudra Patel and Navein Shribalaharan contributing three of the five points, including teaming up at No. 1 doubles for the deciding win. Both players won their singles matches 8-1.

LONDONDERRY 9, MERRIMACK 0

It was a tough start for the Tomahawks, but they competed well at singles Nos.1 through 3 in 8-3 losses each for Mikhail Agapov, Jeremy Nigen and Nithin Sathappan.

GIRLS TENNIS

DERRYFIELD 9, NASHUA SOUTH 0

The Panthers fell in their home opener but got good matches from Piya Chokshi (4-8) at No. 2 singles, Krina Dani at No. 4 (5-8) and Riya Shroff at No.5 (3-8). The No. 2 doubles team of Hannah Jacob/Dani also played well in bowing 8-4.

LONONDERRY 5, MERRIMACK 4

The Tomahawks got three singles wins but only managed one in doubles to fall in a close season opener in Londonderry.

Singles winners for the locals were Katie Costa, 8-0 at No. 1, No. 3 Lina Eldeib 9-8, and No. 5 Lilly Fanchiang 8-6. The No. 1 tandem of Costa/Jess Harden also won 8-1.

Merrimack has its home opener Monday vs. Hanover at Wasserman Park.

HOLLIS BROOKLINE 9, MILFORD 0

The Cavs enjoyed a great start, losing just one game in the entire match vs. a Spartans team in which seven of the eight players on the roster are new to the game.

Keira Swart, Anuhy Chilakapati, Anna Heiplik, Emily Frederickson, Kae Berrigan and Iresha Sidhu all triumphed, as did the doubles teams of Swart/Chilakapati, Heiplik/Malaya Colena, and Annalise Walle/Ava Porto.

BOYS & GIRLS TRACK

ALVIRNE SWEEPS, MERRIMACK SECOND

The Broncos won the boys meet with 71 points, while Merrimack was second (52) and Salem third (36). The Alvirne girls had 71.5, ahead of Merrimack (57.5) and Salem as well (27).

In the boys meet, Alvirne’s Joey Marcotte took the 110 hurdles (17.28),300 hurdles (44.71), and the long jump (19-6.75). Marcotte was also part of the winning 4×100 relay team along with Jeremiah Yi, Aidan Flaherty and Jayden Taylor (47.17). Taylor also won the triple jump in 38-5.5.

Alvirne’s Shawn Boudreau won the shot put at 40-10 and the discus at 116-4.5

The Broncos also took the 4×400 relay with the team of Flaherty, Ryan Burke, Jack Zakos and Brent Dunning coming in at 3:52.21.

Merrimack got wins from Luca Kabel in the 100 (11.52) and 200 (23.81), plus Ben Basoli in the 400 (57.76). Chandler Lytle took the high jump (5-4) while Michael Gendron won the javelin at 126-1.

In the girls meet, Alvirne’s Petrino Ofori won the 100 hurdles in 16.45,300 hurdles in 51.11 seconds and high jump (5-0). Victoria Oliveira won the 400 (1:11.61), Ava Martin the 800 (2:36.68), Lisa Armadi the long jump (14-8)

In the relays, Alvirne’s foursome of Martin, Jane Makoviyz, Addison Tobin and Anna Simpson won the 4×400 in 4:32.37.

Merrimack’s Melanie Bedard captured the 1600 (5:31.30). Charvi Chandrasekaran won the discus (85-2),Ella Fong took the javelin (89-2) and Mia Getchell the shot put (32-2). Lilly Farrell captured the triple jump at 31-3.

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