ORLANDO, Fla. – The Union College men's tennis team continued a busy week on Spring Break with a split of two matches on Tuesday afternoon at the USTA National Campus. After a 6-1 loss to Colby College to start the day, the Garnet Chargers came right back to sweep Lawrence University by a 7-0 score.
Five Garnet Chargers had a pair of wins and seven players overall had at least one victory in the team's 7-0 sweep of Lawrence to end the afternoon.
Union made quick work of Lawrence in doubles play, dropping a combined five games in three wins. Junior
Christian Crowder and sophomore
Shreyas Kode got the scoring started for the Garnet Chargers with a 6-1 win over Will Phillips and Owen Horton at third doubles, followed soon after by senior
Seth Prusko and first-year
David Wang defeating Gabriel Garcia and Cole Witucki by the same score at the second flight. Senior
Austin Gregory and first-year
Vivaan Gupta completed the sweep with a 6-3 first-doubles win over Benjamin Hoppe and Andrew Larson.
Gregory made quick work of Witucki at sixth singles in a 6-1, 6-0 victory to set the tone for singles play. Gupta continued the run by winning 12 straight games to put a double bagel on Hoppe at the second flight, and Kode clinched the win by defeating Dylan Delgado by a 6-2, 6-1 score at third singles. Prusko and Crowder both earned their second wins of the day as well with 6-0 and 6-2 sets at the fourth and fifth flights, respectively, before sophomore
Solen Bellemare finished off the sweep with a 6-4, 6-2 first-singles win over Larson.
In the first match of the day, Union battled hard against a quality Colby side but could not find the results. The team's lone win of the day came at the sixth-singles flight, as first-year
Arhan Gupta defeated Matthew Jeong by the score of 6-2, 7-5. Sophomore
Daniel Saxe came a tiebreaker short of forcing a decisive supertiebreaker against Josh Kaplan in fifth-singles action, falling 6-4, 7-6 (7-2).
Union will finish off its Spring Break tomorrow with an 8:30 a.m. matchup with Oberlin College.
