Men's Tennis | 2/10/2025 3:03:00 PM

Box Score ERIE, Pa. -- The Daemen University men's tennis team dropped their first road match of the spring in a 7-0 decision at Division I Mercyhurst University on Monday afternoon. The Wildcats drop to 2-7 on the year and 0-2 in the spring season.

The Daemen No. 1 doubles team of junior Alex Lumanog (Albuquerque, N.M.) and senior Juan Alvarez (Puebla, Mexico) picked up their second doubles win of the season, taking down Mercyhurst's top pair of Danylo Rekun and Mykhailo Polishuk in a 6-4 decision. That would be the Wildcats' only win of the afternoon as the Lakers would take second and third doubles to take the first point of the match. Junior Rohan Chitanand (Den Haag, Netherlands) and sophomore Lucas Garcia (Bogota, Columbia) battled in No. 2 doubles but Mercyhurst pulled away with the 6-3 victory. Senior Jayven Williamson (Minneapolis, Minn.) and freshman Vondin Henderson (Tonawanda, N.Y.) fell in No. 3 doubles, 6-0. 

Mercyhurst won all six singles matches today. Alvarez fought to win his second straight No. 1 singles match but could not overcome Rekun, falling 6-2, 6-4 in top singles. In No. 2 singles, Lumanog fell to Lukas Cabue (6-2, 6-2) while Chitanand dropped third singles, 6-2, 6-0, to Colmn Schultz. Garcia, Williamson and Henderson all fell (6-1, 6-0 in all matches) in No. 4, No. 5 and No. 6 singles today. 

DOUBLES RESULTS
#1 -- Alex Lumanog & Juan Alvarez (DAE) def. Danylo Rekun & Mykhailo Polishuk (MER), 6-4
#2 -- Colm Schultz & David Mengher (MER) def. Rohan Chitanand & Lucas Garcia (DAE), 6-3
#3 -- Lukas Cabue & Sviatoslav Koliandynskyi (MER) def. Jayven Williamson & Vondin Henderson (DAE), 6-0

SINGLES RESULTS
#1 -- Rekun def. Alvarez, 6-2, 6-4
#2 -- Cabue def. Lumanog, 6-2, 6-2
#3 -- Schultz def. Chitanand, 6-2, 6-0
#4 -- Koliandynskyi def. Garcia, 6-1, 6-0
#5 -- Polishuk def. Williamson, 6-1, 6-0
#6 -- Menger def. Henderson, 6-1, 6-0

UP NEXT
The Wildcats have almost two weeks off before hosting Edinboro on Sunday, Feb. 23 at Miller Tennis Center. 

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