Huntley junior ace Will Geske rested his tennis rackets during spring break last week, choosing to visit eight colleges in the New York and Boston areas.

“I’m a little rusty,” said the Red Raider at Saturday’s Deerfield boys tennis quad.

It hardly showed.

Geske, a two-time Class 2A state qualifier, went 3-0 at No. 1 singles against a tough trio in chilly conditions, dropping only 1 set and whacking clean groundstroke winners that turned heads and bruised the courts’ chain-link fences.

“That forehand of his, it’s traveling faster over the net this year,” Huntley coach Kris Grabner said.

“I worked on flattening the stroke, hoping to add a bit more power to it,” said Geske, who defeated Libertyville’s Chase Peirce 6-1, 6-4, Warren’s Archit Prakash 4-6, 6-2 (10-4 super tiebreaker) and Deerfield’s Konrad Piotrowski 6-2, 6-2.

Geske split four singles matches at each of the last two Class 2A state tournaments but played a top-8-state-seed brand of tennis Saturday, particularly when he painted the deep segments of lines with his smooth on-the-rise groundstrokes.

“I was feeding tennis balls to Will in a drill at practice one day and decided to put one in my pocket,” recalled Grabner. “At the end of practice, I took it out and showed it to the team, asking, ‘Who’s responsible for the ball looking like this? They all knew Will was because the ball no longer had fuzz.”