Box Score SCHENECTADY, N.Y. – Seniors Ben Jacobs and Ian Schunk won a pair of titles each to lead five Union College victories as the home team showed out at the annual Garnet Charger Invitational, held on Saturday and Sunday at the Union Tennis Courts.
 
Union emerged victorious from five of the seven brackets, winning the top-three singles flights and both of the doubles events.
 
After winning two matches yesterday, Schunk took home the "A" Singles title with a hard-fought 7-6 (7-3), 6-4 victory over St. Lawrence's Broderick Pinto. He was down 2-5 in the first set before holding serve twice and getting a break to even the frame at five, and then saved a set point serving at 5-6 before holding on in the opening tiebreaker. The senior earned his first title at the annual event after reaching the "C" Singles final as a first-year.
 
Union knew it would have a winner in the "B" Singles final as Jacobs faced off with first-year teammate Vivaan Gupta. After Gupta earned a 6-4 opening set, Jacobs stormed back to take the second set by a 6-1 score and force a deciding supertiebreaker, with the senior outlasting the first-year, 10-7. Jacobs also earned his first singles win at the event after previously getting to the "B" Singles final in his first season.
 
The Garnet Chargers were also guaranteed a winner at "C" Singles. Sophomore Solen Bellemare took home the title with a close 7-6 (7-4), 6-4 win over teammate and classmate Shreyas Kode for his first win at the event.
 
Jacobs completed his perfect weekend with an "A" Doubles title as well, teaming up with first-year Jesus Sosa to give the senior the title for the second straight season. After winning once yesterday to reach the semifinals, the tandem defeated SLU's Edvin Strandberg and John Hill-Edgar, 8-3, and Drew's Jesse Faro and Daniel Arcari, 8-1.
 
Schunk also finished off a perfect weekend with a second title, coming at "B" Doubles alongside first-year Vivaan Gupta. The pair knocked off Kode and Vivaan's brother Arhan Gupta by an 8-5 score to reach the finals, where they stormed past the SLU tandem of Mo and Sebastian Boada, 8-1.
 
First-year David Wang came up a supertiebreaker short of winning the "D" Singles bracket, starting strong but falling to SLU's Ryan Tingley in a close 4-6, 6-1, (10-7) match.
 
SLU's Charles Schepens won twice to earn the "E" Singles title, eking past Union junior Christian Crowder by an 8-7 (9-7) score in the semifinals before taking down teammate Soohwan Mo, 8-5, in an all-Saints final.
 
Union will return to action on Saturday, when the team plays its final dual match of the fall season against Farmingdale State College beginning at 1 p.m. at the Union Tennis Courts.