College of Charleston 6, Furman 1
Mt. Pleasant ? The College of Charleston men’s tennis team grabbed its fifth consecutive win with a 6-1 victory over No. 59 Furman before 180 at the Patriots Point Tennis Center in Mt. Pleasant, S.C. on Sunday.
The victory improves No. 75 CofC to 13-1 overall and 6-1 in the Southern Conference while the loss drops Furman to 12-10 and 4-2 in the SoCon.
The Cougars won two out of the three doubles matches to earn one team point. The CofC team of Omer Abramovich and Jimmy Petit improved its doubles record to 7-3 on the season with an 8-5 win in the No. 1 doubles match over Ryan Friend and Andy Sobczyk of Furman. The other doubles win for CofC came from the team of Marcos Digliodo and Or Dekel, who beat Brian Crook and Bo Ladyman, 8-3, and improved its record to 10-2.
CofC won five out of the six singles matches to clinch the victory. Abramovich stayed undefeated for the season and got his 13th singles win with a 6-1, 6-3 triumph over Ladyman in the No. 3 singles match. Dekel improved his season record to 13-1 with a 6-4, 6-0 win over No. 68 Andy Juc of Furman in the No. 1 singles match. Digliodo won his eighth straight match and improved to 9-3 with a 6-2, 7-6 win over Sobczyk in the No. 2 singles match. Justin Malina and Steven Myers also picked up singles wins for the Cougars.
CofC will return to action on Apr. 4 against Wofford at the Patriots Point Tennis Center beginning at 1:30 p.m. Furman will travel to Appalachian State in Boone, N.C. for its next match on Apr. 5 beginning at 2 p.m.
Here were the final results of the match:
Tennis Match Results
Furman vs. College of Charleston
Apr. 01, 2007 at Mt. Pleasant, S.C.
#75 College of Charleston 6, #59 Furman 1
Singles competition
1. Or Dekel (COFC) def. #68 Andy Juc (FUR) 6-4, 6-0
2. Marcos DiGliodo (COFC) def. Andy Sobczyk (FUR) 6-2, 7-6
3. Omer Abramovich (COFC) def. Bo Ladyman (FUR) 6-1, 6-3
4. Justin Malina (COFC) def. Daniel Knause (FUR) 7-5, 6-1
5. Chris Gilli (FUR) def. Perry Allen (COFC) 7-5, 7-5
6. Steven Myers (COFC) def. Jordan Walters (FUR) 7-6, 6-3
Doubles competition (for one team point)
1. Perry Allen/Omer Abramovich (COFC) def. Ryan Friend/Andy Sobczyk (FUR) 8-5
2. Marcos DiGliodo/Or Dekel (COFC) def. Brian Crook/Bo Ladyman (FUR) 8-3
3. Scott Kahler/Andy Juc (FUR) def. Justin Malina/Jimmy Petit (COFC) 8-6
Match Notes:
Furman 12-10, 4-2 SoCon; National ranking #59
College of Charleston 13-1, 6-1 SoCon; National ranking #75
Attendance: 180
Elon 6, Chattanooga 0
ELON, N.C.- The #42 Elon men's tennis team won all six singles battles to down Chattanooga 6-0 on Sunday afternoon at the Jimmy Powell Tennis Center.
With the win, its eight straight victory, Elon (17-2, 8-0 SoCon) remains undefeated in league play and claims a share of the Southern Conference regular-season title.
Chattanooga, who knocked Elon out of the SoCon tournament last season, falls to 13-5 overall and 4-3 in the league.
The match started with singles play due to inclement weather and did not move to doubles play as the outcome was decided in singles.
Gustaf Asplund defeated Razvan Axente 6-0, 6-1 at No. 5 to give Elon its first point of the match. Damon Gooch then downed Badr Bouabdellah 6-2, 6-1 at No. 1 and Anuwat Dalodom defeated Mark Fynn 6-2, 7-5 at No. 2. Austin Fenn gave Elon its fourth point as he defeated Pavel Vostrikov 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 at No. 6. Sebastian Bredberg defeated Tim Mittiga 4-6, 6-0, 7-5 at No. 4 and Mason Shermerhorn downed Peter Sauska 5-7, 6-0, 6-0.
Elon returns to action on Wednesday, April 4 in a 2 p.m. match at Davidson while the Mocs are next in action on Saturday, April 7 in a noon match with Mercer.