Men's Tennis | 9/10/2017 6:26:00 PM

Box Score

DUDLEY, Mass. – The Nichols College men's tennis team claimed three flight championships as part of the Nichols College Invitational (NCI) Sunday afternoon at the Robinson Tennis Courts.
 
The NCI consisted of the Bison along with Springfield College, Clark (MA), and Colby-Sawyer.
 
Freshman August Moeller (Hellerup, Denmark) took the Singles C Flight Championship after knocking off Zack Keene from Springfield 6-4, 6-0 in the first round before defeating Ross Kenney of Colby-Sawyer 7-5, 6-2 in the final.
 
The Bison claimed both the A and B Doubles flights while both finals consisted of two Nichols doubles teams. Junior Igor Markowski (Paris, France) and sophomore Peter Coletti (Beverly, Mass.) defeated freshman Brandon Stewart and sophomore Brandon Howard (Hamden, Conn.), 8-6, to claim the Doubles A Flight.
 
Juniors Kiril Ivanov (Moscow, Russia) and Aidan Stuart (Orange, Conn.) took down sophomore teammates Supakrit Boonsoong (Chestnut Hill, Mass.) and Jack Donaldson (Easton, Md.), 9-8 (3) to claim the Doubles B Flight Championship.
 
In other invitational action, junior Blake Norton (Stratford, Conn.) fell to Springfield's Alex Romaine in the Singles A Flight Championship 6-4, 6-1 while Colby-Sawyer's Alex Wright got the best of Springfield's Court Honda, 6-4, 6-2, in the Singles B Flight Championship.
 
Sophomore Guilherme Barbosa (Bradenton, Fla.) fell in the Singles B Flight consolation final 6-3, 0-6, 10-8 to Clark (MA)'s Lenny Siegel.
 
Sophomore Chase Pierce (Cumberland, R.I.) and freshman Sean Nutter defeated teammates junior Chris Chardon (Franconia, N.H.) and freshman Brendan Stierli, 8-5, in the final of the Doubles B Flight consolation final to round out the play of the Bison on the day.
 
Quotes
"Top to bottom we played well today. We really were able to showcase our depth. A nice start, and now we move on to getting ready for our split squad date on Friday." – Nichols head coach Paul Brower
 
"August's performance was outstanding. He closed out two nice singles wins." – Brower on the play of Moeller
 
"On the doubles side, Kiril and Aidan as well as Pete and Igor shined in tight finals." – Brower on the play of the Bison's doubles teams
 
Next Game
Nichols (0-0) – Friday, September 15 at Franklin Pierce and vs Mt. St. Mary (NY), at 3:30 p.m.