Men's Tennis | 10/9/2017 10:11:00 AM
NEW LONDON, Conn. – The Nichols College men's tennis team participated in the Connecticut College/Coast Guard Men's Tennis Tournament on Saturday, October 7. Several other schools participated besides the Bison including Merrimack College, Trinity College, and Stonehill College.
In Flight A doubles play, the combo of sophomore
Guilherme Barbosa (Bradenton, Fla.) and freshman
August Moeller (Hellerup, Denmark) fell to the Trinity team of senior Rex Glickman (Chappaqua, N.Y.) and sophomore Courtland Boyle (Pembroke, Mass.), 8-6, before defeating the Merrimack tandem of senior Mikhail Belov (Krasnoarmeyskoy, Russia) and senior Thomas O'Brien (Lancaster, Pa.), 8-2.
In Flight B, sophomore
Peter Coletti (Beverly, Mass.) and junior
Igor Markowski (Paris, France) dropped an 8-6 decision to Conn. College's freshmen duo of Zak Danz and Ethan Hecker, and fell to Trinity's sophomore William Frigerio (Villanova, Pa.) and freshman Tanner Boyle (Pembroke, Mass.) by a matching score in their next match.
In Flight C, the team of junior
Blake Norton (Stratford, Conn.) and freshman
Brandon Stewart posted an 8-4 win over Stonehill's senior Jeffrey Gagnon (Providence, R.I.) and freshman Jonathan Gordon (Marlborough, Mass.) and followed that up with an 8-1 win over Coast Guard's freshman Kyle Fager (Spokane, Wash.) and sophomore Hunter Shortly (Forest Lake, Minn.). Also in Flight C, junior
Kirill Ivanov (Moscow, Russia) and junior
Aidan Stuart (Orange, Conn.) fell to Coast Guard's senior John Hu (Plainsboro, N.J.) and senior Ben Errington (Cypress, Texas), 8-3, and later lost to Connecticut's junior Scott Brown (Old Greenwich, Conn.) and freshman Brandon Ameglio, 8-4.
As the tournament moved to singles play, Barbosa fell to Trinity's Glickman, 6-4, 6-1 in Flight A, while sophomore
Brandon Howard (Hamden, Conn.) fell to Stonehill's sophomore Aaron Diamond (Moultonborough, N.H.), 6-4, 7-6 in Flight B. In Flight C, sophomore
Jack Donaldson (Easton, Md.) dropped the opening set of his matchup with Coast Guard's sophomore Adam Bahney (Myerstown, Pa.), 7-5, but rebounded for a 6-1 win in the second set before falling 10-7 in the third.
Also in Flight C,
Kirill Ivanov registered a 6-3, 7-6 victory over Stonehill's senior Tom Buckley (Hebron, Conn.), but dropped an 8-4 decision to Trinity's freshman Granville Kaynor (New Orleans, La.) in his next match.
In singles Flight D,
Peter Coletti fell to Trinity's freshman Christopher Bilicic (Chicago, Ill.), 8-6, while in Flight E,
Brandon Stewart defeated Stonehill's Gagnon, 6-1, 2-6, 10-5, and followed that up with a 9-7 setback to Conn. College's Zak Danz. Also in Flight E,
August Moeller fell to Coast Guard's Fager, 7-5, 6-3, but rebounded for an 8-3 win over Conn.'s freshman Walter Komishane.
Finally in Flight F,
Igor Markowski registered a 7-6, 6-1 win over Coast Guard's Hunter Shortly.
Next Match
Nichols (0-1) – March 13, 2018 vs. Earlham (Orlando, Fla.), Time TBA
