PORTSMOUTH — The Portsmouth girls’ tennis team beat Tiverton, 6-1, during a Division 2 home match Friday afternoon. The Patriots improved to 6-1, while the Tigers fell to 4-4.

Portsmouth, which moved down from Division 1, swept the doubles matches and won at second, third and fourth singles.

The Patriots’ first doubles team of Maddie Couto and Audrey May won in straight sets over Tiverton’s Emanuely Faustino and Carly Sanna, 6-4, 6-2.

“Our team is amazing,” said May, a junior. “We are all super close, and I love playing with them.”

She and Couto are undefeated this season, as are all of the Patriots’ doubles teams.

“Our styles complement each other,” May said. “We both hit hard, we both serve well and can play well at the net.”

The second doubles pairing of Sophie De la Huerta Barnard and Phoebe Hadley beat Sadie Loureiro-Brown and Nanami Cater, 6-2, 6-1. The third doubles team of Anh Kraska and Martina Haslam beat Haily Archambault and Stella Valentino, 6-2, 6-3.

“We are having a great season,” head coach Betsy Eyre said. “We have some experienced players, and the fact that we’ve found the right combinations has made them all good teams.”

Second singles player Pia Streuli, a junior who moved up from third singles, won a hard-fought match that came down to a pair of set tiebreakers, 7-6, 7-6, over Tiverton’s Angie Cordeiro, who played first doubles last season.

Singles players win big

Patriots third singles player Olivia Tilman beat Caroline Durost in straight sets, 6-2, 6-1. Sidonie Burton did the same at fourth singles, beating Bella Scull, 6-2, 6-0.

The Patriots, who have beaten Mt. Hope, North Smithfield, Ponaganset, PCD/SRA and Tiverton twice, are currently in fourth place in the division.