Haverhill, Mass. – The Le Moyne College men's tennis team won its 10th match of the season, 6-1, over former NE10 foe Merrimack College on Sunday afternoon at Cedardale Health and Fitness.
The Dolphins, who snapped a 14-match losing streak to the Warriors dating back to a 6-3 win on September 17, 2005, earned the point in the doubles competition for the ninth time this year. Sophomore
Peter Hatton (Syracuse, N.Y./Jamesville-DeWitt/Club Med Academics/Army West Point) and graduate student
Manuel Righi (Bologna, Italy/IPC Manfredi - ITC Tanari/Concordia (N.Y.)/Universita di Bologna) won their fourth straight match, 6-1, at the second position over Charles Robertson and Valentin Riveros. Seniors
Kacper Piekarek (Wroclaw, Poland/Autorskrie Licea Artystyczne Akademickie/Missouri-Kansas City) and
Rodrigo Beires (Porto, Portugal/Agrupamento de Escolas Garcia de Orta/Universidade Portucalense) clinched the point with a 6-3 victory at the third spot over Daksh Agarwal and Pedro Mancini. Aryaan Bhatia and Henrik Lindeman prevented the sweep with a 6-4 win at the first position over graduate student
Tom Jarry (Paris, France/CNED Toulouse/Emmanuel) and senior
Ethan Miller (Swindon, England/Cirencetser Kingshill School).
Le Moyne secured its third win over a Division I program this year by taking five of the six matches in the singles competition. Hatton was victorious for his fifth straight match with a 6-3, 7-6 (9-7) win at the first position over Bhatia. Jarry collected his 10th win of the season, 6-4, 6-3, over Lindeman at the second spot. Righi remained unbeaten in dual matches (11-0) with a 6-3, 6-1 victory at the third position over Robertson. Piekarek was a 6-0, 6-1 winner at the fourth spot over Andre Singer. Sophomore
Xavier Branagan (Wollstonecraft, Australia/St. Aloysius' College) claimed a 7-5, 6-2 win at the sixth position over Mancini. Agarwal earned Merrimack's point by edging graduate student
Alberto Diaz (Tenerife, Spain/Benito Pérez Armas/Nebraska-Kearney/Midwestern State) at the fifth spot, 6-2, 4-6, 10-7.
Le Moyne (10-1) returns to regional action on Thursday at Queens College at 8:00 p.m.
