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Match Recap: Men's Tennis | | Lea Sobieraski Athletic Communications Graduate Assistant

Wildcats Close Out Fall Schedule With Second-Straight Shutout Win

 
AMHERST, N.Y. – The Daemen College men's tennis team saw their short fall schedule come to an end this evening with a 9-0 victory over Houghton College in a non-conference match played at Ellicott Tennis Courts on the campus of the University at Buffalo.
 
Houghton, a NCAA Division III member of the Empire 8 Conference opened their 2017-2018 campaign today, falling to an 0-1 season mark.  Daemen is now 22-10 all-time against NCAA Division III opponents, heading into the spring portion of their schedule 3-1 overall.  The win is Daemen's second-straight, both of which have come by identical 9-0 scores.
 
Daemen opened the match by sweeping through doubles play.  Senior Mark Veitengruber (Rockford, Mich./Rockford) teamed with freshman Jose Williamson III (Minneapolis, Minn./Minnehaha Academy) to defeat Houghton's Michael Cha and Louis Garcia on the first doubles court.  In second doubles, juniors David Gonzalez Villegas (Pereira, Colombia/Liceo Frances de Pereira) and Ricardo Ruiz Martinez (Valencia, Spain/American International College_ were 8-2 winners over Jake Fisler and Dylan Scherer.  And, rookie Tim Georg (Aschaffenburg, Germany/Hanns-Seidel) and junior Justin Milner (Ithaca, N.Y./Ithaca) completed the sweep with another 8-2 win in third doubles over Holden Cole and Matthew Greer.
 
Daemen's dominance continued as the match shifted to singles play as all six matchups were decided in straight-sets.  The closest match came at the top of the lineup where Ruiz Martinez ousted Garcia 6-4, 75.  Ruiz Martinez upped his single's record to an unblemished 3-0 this season.
 
In second singles, Gonzalez Villegas cruised to 6-1, 6-0 win over Cha.  Veitenburger picked up his second point of the match with a win in the third singles position, boosting his season mark to 7-2 in singles action.
 
Wilde and Williamson both made it a two-point night personally, winning at their respective positions.  Wilde defeated Scherer 6-2, 6-0 on the fourth singles court.  Pablo Martinez Hernandez (Huatulco, Mexico/Niagara-Academy) and Williamson complete the shutout with wins in the fifth and sixth singles positions, respectively.  Martinez Hernandez was a 6-0, 6-9 winner over Greer, while Williamson also won by scores of 6-0, 6-0 over Cole.
 
Daemen's 2017-2018 season will continue in early February.  The full spring schedule will be announced at a later date.
 
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