Schoolboys Carlos Reid and Paddy Ou held firm to take the narrowest of wins in the feature tie of Dunedin club tennis on Saturday.
McGlashan beat Eastern Harbour 2-1, but had to do it the hard way, through a 10-8 third-set tiebreak in the deciding doubles against Phil Mirfin and Ryan Eggers.
Harbour looked on track to win after it claimed the first set 6-1, but the younger pair fought back to take the second set 6-4 before their third-set win.
Eggers had kept his team in the contest, when, fighting a muscle spasm in his upper back, he came back to beat Reid 3-6, 7-6, 6-3.
Ou showed the value of eight matches for the Otago junior team last weekend, and was too solid for the very experienced Mirfin, who had not played singles recently, winning 6-2, 6-2.
Joe Highton (Mornington-Roslyn) played above himself to beat James Bourne (Balmacewen) 6-2, 6-4, but Balmacewen won the other two, with Jon Bakos dropping only three games to Tom Beamish and partnering Bourne to a 6-2, 6-3 doubles win.
The return of Paula Ferguson to matchplay for Mornington-Roslyn saw her come up short against Balmacewen's Jessie Stevenson going down 2-6, 1-6, but Heike Cebulla-Elder won her singles and partnered Ferguson to a straight-sets doubles win.
Debbie Cartwright and Debbie Stevens (Eastern Harbour) won all three against St Clair in short order.
