West Windsor, N.J. – Wagner College recorded a 4-1 win over the Le Moyne College men's tennis team in the NEC Championship semifinals on Friday afternoon at the Mercer County Tennis Center.
The Seahawks, who defeated the Dolphins 4-0 in a regular season match 13 days ago, captured the point in the doubles competition. Tom Lamers and Sebastian Dobson got the first win, 6-2, at the third position over sophomores
Callum Matthew (Dorset, England/Highcliffe School) and
Lorenzo Bortolaso (Bassano del Grappa, Italy/IT IS Enrico Fermi). Eddie Schmidt and Lukas Escher clinched the point with a 6-2 victory at the top spot over freshman
Carlo Zucchini (Varese, Italy/European School of Varese) and sophomore
Navya Verma (Patiala, India/Apollo Public School). Pablo Rodriguez and Joshua Zhao were leading 4-3 at the second position over sophomore
Luke Hoyland (Sheffield, England/Birkdale School) and freshman
Gabriel Segubiense (Sugar Land, Texas/Clements) when the point was clinched.
Wagner advanced to the finals by taking three of the four positions to finish in the singles competition. Escher registered a 6-1, 6-2 victory at the second spot over Matthew for a 2-0 lead. Segubiense got the Dolphins on the scoreboard with back-to-back scores of 6-2 at the fifth position over Vibhu Challagundla. Zhao made it 3-1 with a 6-2, 6-3 win at the sixth spot over Verma. Rodriguez clinched the match by rallying at the fourth position for a 1-6, 6-0, 6-0 win over Bortolaso. Schmidt was leading Zucchini, 4-6, 6-3, 4-1, at the top spot and Hoyland had a 6-3, 2-6, 1-0 advantage over Lamers at the third position when the match was clinched.
Le Moyne concludes its third season at the Division I level with a 5-10 record and its second berth in the NEC semifinals.