Box Score BLOOMSBURG, Pa. -- The Daemen University men's tennis team wrapped up the fall season with a 6-1 loss at Bloomsburg University on Friday afternoon to bring their non-competition record to 2-5. It marked the fourth consecutive loss for Daemen. The Wildcats will resume play in the spring.
Bloomsburg won the first point of the match by taking two of the three doubles pairings. Daemen senior
Juan Alvarez (Puebla, Mexico) and sophomore
Lasse Mergens (Bochum, Germany) staved off the Husky doubles sweep and picked up their second straight doubles win with a 6-2 victory over Bloomsburg's Vishesh Patel and Sergio Dilan in No. 1 doubles. Playing in second doubles for the second match in a row, junior
Alex Lumanog (Albuquerque, N.M.) and sophomore
Lucas Garcia (Bogota, Columbia) fell to Fernando Barros and Jaime Soria, 6-4. Junior
Rohan Chitanand (Den Haag, Netherlands) and senior
Jayven Williamson (Minneapolis, Minn.) dropped No. 3 doubles, 6-0.
The Huskies won five of the six singles matches today. Chitanand was the sole Wildcat to win a point today, taking down Jaime Soria in three sets, 4-6, 6-2, 10-4 to move to 4-2 on the year in fifth singles. Alvarez dropped No. 1 singles for the second match in a row, falling 6-3, 6-4 while Garcia fell (6-1, 6-3) in third singles. Mergens pushed Iu Casamitjana in No. 4 singles but fell to the Bloomsburg junior (6-3, 7-5). Bloomsburg's Fernando Barros defeated Williamson in straight sets (6-0, 6-0) while Lumanog's No. 2 singles match was retired as the Huskies won, 6-1.
DOUBLES RESULTS
#1 --
Juan Alvarez &
Lasse Mergens (DAE) def. Vishesh Patel & Sergio Dilan (BU), 6-2
#2 -- Fernando Barros & Jaime Soria (BU) def.
Alex Lumanog &
Lucas Garcia (DAE), 6-4
#3 -- Iu Casamitjana & Denis Dementev (BU) def.
Rohan Chitanand &
Jayven Williamson (DAE), 6-0
SINGLES RESULTS
#1 -- Dementev def. Alvarez, 6-3, 6-4
#2 -- Patel def. Lumanog, 5-1, retired
#3 -- Albert Martin def. Garcia, 6-1, 6-3
#4 -- Casamitjana def. Mergens, 6-3, 7-5
#5 -- Chitanand def. Soria, 4-6, 6-2 (10-4)
#6 -- Barros def. Williamson, 6-0, 6-0
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