AMHERST, N.Y. -- The Daemen University men's tennis team picked up a 5-2 victory over Houghton University on Tuesday evening. With the win, The Wildcats snap a seven-match losing skid and improve to 4-13 on the year.
The Wildcats earned the first point of the match by winning two of three doubles matches. Junior
Lasse Mergens (Bochum, Germany) and senior
Rohan Chitanand (Den Haag, Netherlands) earned a big 6-1 victory at first doubles over Houghton's Rune Camps and Eben Schilke. At No. 2 doubles, junior
Lucas Garcia (Bogota, Columbia) and sophomore
Riley Fitzgerald (Auburn, N.Y.) collected a 6-1 win over Preston Tobalski and Jason Murphy to seal the first point for the Wildcats. In a very competitive third doubles, Houghton pulled away with the 7-5 win over sophomore
Vondin Henderson (Tonawanda, N.Y.) and freshman
Joey LaBrake (Lancaster, N.Y.).
Daemen won four of six singles pairings to take the match 5-2. Garcia earned a 6-2, 6-2 victory over Camps at first singles. Mergens cruised to a 6-1, 6-0 second singles win over Schilke at No. 2 singles. At third singles, Chitanand won 6-1 in the first set before Tobalski retired the match. Henderson collected a 6-3, 6-4 win over Benjamin Unger at fifth singles. Houghton won fourth singles and sixth singles.
The Wildcats will host St. Thomas Aquinas on Saturday at 1:30 PM at Miller Tennis Center.
