ORLANDO, Fla. – The Union College men's tennis team split a pair of matches on a busy Monday afternoon at the USTA National Campus, defeating Huntingdon College in a 7-0 victory before dropping a hard-fought 5-2 match to ITA #34 Hamilton College.
 
Sophomore Jesus Sosa and first-year Simon Philip both earned victories in each match on the day for Union (5-4), with Sosa going 2-0 in singles play and Philip posting one win each on the singles and doubles courts.
 
Five Garnet Chargers earned two wins each to start the day against Huntingdon, as Union swept all three doubles matches and all six singles flights. Sophomore Riichi Nagatake and first-year Reilly Fowles got the match started with a quick 6-0 win at third doubles, followed by a 6-3 at the second flight for senior Christian Crowder and first-year Alain Uzelac. Philip and junior Shreyas Kode mounted a massive comeback to complete the doubles sweep, coming back from 0-5 down to win seven straight games and pull out a 7-5 victory.
 
Nagatake started singles play off right with a pair of 6-2 sets to defeat Sage Speer at the fifth flight, followed soon after by Uzelac's 6-2, 6-0 fourth-singles win over Zach Cox. Kode provided the clinching point with a 6-4, 6-0 victory at second singles over Tyler Garcia. Sosa kept the team unbeaten by taking down William Massey, 7-5, 6-3, in a first-singles matchup, as did Fowles at the sixth flight by posting a pair of 6-4 sets to defeat Clayton Philley. Crowder finished off his undefeated afternoon with a 6-4, 6-3 win over Lincoln Young to complete the sweep.
 
Union battled hard in the second match of the day against the nationally ranked Continentals, winning a pair of singles matches and taking another to a supertiebreaker.
 
Hamilton jumped out to a quick 3-0 lead, thanks to winning the doubles point and earning wins at first and third singles. Philip kept Union alive with a 6-3, 6-2 win over Alexei Katelevsky at fifth singles, as did Sosa at the second flight with a comeback win over Lleyton Mendieta by a 4-6, 6-3, (10-5) score. Union was close in both remaining matches, but sophomore Arhan Gupta came up a break short in each set of his fourth singles match, while twin brother Vivaan Gupta fell in a sixth-singles supertiebreaker, 6-1, 3-6, (10-3).
 
Union will return to action tomorrow, when the Garnet Chargers take on conference foe St. Lawrence University in a non-conference match beginning at 5:30 p.m.