Elmira Moves Back to .500 with 5-4 Win Over Division II Daemen College
Box Score
Pine Valley, NY -- The Elmira College men's tennis team (3-3) picked up their second win in a row, and moved back to .500 on the season, defeating NCAA Division II member institution Daemen College (3-7), 5-4.
Satchal Waters '16 was the deciding match today, securing the win with a convincing 6-1, 6-3 victory at fifth singles.
The Soaring Eagles got off to a good start in today's match, winning two out of three doubles matches.
Pavle Vashakidze '16 and rookie
Neal Statts '17 made quick work of their opponents, defeating Daemen's third doubles team by an 8-3 score.
Keith Bujak '15 and
Sam Pine '14 teamed up at first doubles to pull out an 8-5 victory to give EC the 2-0 lead. Waters and his partner,
Austin Mansell '16, nearly made it a clean sweep in the doubles portion, but the duo lost by one break, 8-5.
Elmira needed just three of the six singles matches to go in their favor to clinch the win, but those wins would not come as easy as the doubles matches. Bujak dropped his second singles match, 6-1, 6-0, but his doubles partner, Pine, came through with a convincing 6-0, 6-2 victory at fourth singles to keep the Soaring Eagles in front 3-2. Mansell followed soon after with a 7-5, 6-2 win at third singles and Waters clinched EC's third victory of the season after cruising to a 6-1, 6-3 win at fifth singles.
Daemen did pick up additional wins at first singles and sixth singles, bringing the match to the 5-4 final.
The Purple and Gold will be back in action on Thursday, March 13th when they travel to Oswego State for a non-conference matchup. The match is scheduled to start at 4:00 p.m.
Singles Competition
1. Kiran Kudaravalli (DAEMEN) def.
Pavle Vashakidze (ECMT) 6-1, 3-6, 6-2
2. Greg Lowe (DAEMEN) def.
Keith Bujak (ECMT) 6-1, 6-0
3.
Austin Mansell (ECMT) def. John LeMar (DAEMEN) 7-5, 6-2
4.
Sam Pine (ECMT) def. Adam Kerr (DAEMEN) 6-0, 6-2
5.
Satchal Waters (ECMT) def. Alex White (DAEMEN) 6-1, 6-3
6. John Wilson (DAEMEN) def.
Neal Statts (ECMT) 6-0, 6-2
Doubles Competition
1. Bujak/Pine (ECMT) def. Kudaravalli/LeMar (DAEMEN) 8-5
2. Lowe/Kerr (DAEMEN) def. Waters/Mansell (ECMT) 8-5
3. Vashakidze/Statts (ECMT) def. Wilson/White (DAEMEN) 8-3