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Upper St. Clair Tennis Advances in WPIAL Tournament

A player's decision to drop baseball to play tennis has helped the team this year.

The Upper St. Clair High School's boys' tennis team easily moved to the second round of the WPIAL tournament Friday night, defeating Bethel Park 5-0.

The Panthers will take on Peters Township on Monday, May 6, at home.

One of the reasons the team has gone from good to a WPIAL title contender is because of Fernando Escribens. The sophomore recently switched from playing baseball to tennis. He told the Post-Gazette that he had an epiphany last summer.

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"I was significantly better at tennis than baseball," he said.

So he traded in his bat for a racquet, and plays No. 1 on the tennis team.

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"He moved everyone down a spot and made us that much better," coach Ron Mercer told the newspaper.


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