By Andy Hutchison

WESTPORT — The Staples boys tennis team, the No. 5 seed in the Class LL State Tournament, defeated No. 12 Hamden 7-0 in the first round last Friday.

With the win, the Wreckers host familiar foe, FCIAC rival Trumbull, in the quarterfinals at 4 p.m. Tuesday.

Trumbull, the tourney’s No. 13 seed, defeated No. 4 East Hartford to set up this all-FCIAC clash. 

Staples beat Trumbull 5-2 in the regular-season meeting.

Results from the win over Hamden are:

Singles

Noah Wolff (S) def. Paras Dodd (H), 6-0, 6-0

Brett Lampert (S) def. Keshav Menon (H), 6-0, 6-0

Lucas Ceballos-Cala (S) def. Anshul Deval (H), 6-0, 6-0

Robert Jacob (S) def. Aidan Dejesus (H), 6-1, 6-0

Doubles

Mattie Guadarrama/Hayden Frey (S) def. Kaustuv Mohanty/Aryan Singala (H), 6-0, 6-0

Jared Even/Clint Graham (S) def. Dylan Groff/Kerim Hebert (H), 6-1, 6-0

Shreyas Gorre/Aleko Vergakis (S) def. Lucian Gaetjen/Milo Kazmierczak (H), 6-0, 6-0

Andy Hutchison has been covering school sports — including Staples athletics — as well as news and feature stories in Fairfield County, since the 1990s.