Elmira Earns Second Consecutive Winning Season with 6-3 Victory Over Oswego
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Oswego, NY -- The unfortunate realization that, for the second consecutive season, the Elmira College men's tennis team would fall just short of the Empire 8 Tournament did not seem to faze the Soaring Eagles this afternoon as the men closed the 2014 season with a 6-3 win over Oswego State. The win moves Elmira to 8-7 overall record, their second straight winning season, and gives the Purple and Gold the highest win total for any EC men's tennis team in at least 12 years.
The Soaring Eagles once again got off to a strong start in today's match as EC held a 2-1 lead after doubles play.
Keith Bujak '15 and
Sam Pine '14 moved to 7-7 together after a relatively easy 8-3 victory at first doubles.
Satchal Waters '16 and
Austin Mansell '16 followed suit at second doubles, giving up just two games en route to the 8-2 win.
EC played without first singles player
Pavle Vashakidze '16 as he sat out the final match of the year, but the Purple and Gold barely missed a beat, winning four of the six singles matches. Bujak, playing at first singles for the first time this season, earned a 6-1, 6-0 straight-set victory. Pine, who was playing in the final match at Elmira, put an exclamation point on his four-year career with a 6-3, 6-1 win at second singles. Pine's two wins this afternoon gave him 16 total on the season, eight in both singles and doubles, which improved his career win total to 46. With 46 career wins, Pine will end his career second all-time in total wins, 12 behind former EC great, Gabe Cortes '11.
Mansell provided Elmira its third victory in singles action, and fifth overall, with a 6-2, 6-2 win at third singles, while Waters followed with a near identical, 6-2, 6-1 victory at fourth singles to round out EC's six points. Waters finished the 2013-14 season with nine singles victories, which places him in a tie for third place with Cortes for single-season singles wins.
This match concludes the 2013-14 season for the men's tennis team and the career for EC's lone Class of 2014 member,
Sam Pine '14.
Singles Competition
1.
Keith Bujak (ECMT) def. Mike Owens (OSWEGO) 6-1, 6-0
2.
Sam Pine (ECMT) def. Ben Weiss (OSWEGO) 6-3, 6-1
3.
Austin Mansell (ECMT) def. Tim Van Hine (OSWEGO) 6-2, 6-2
4.
Satchal Waters (ECMT) def. Max McCune (OSWEGO) 6-2, 6-1
5. Spencer Thorn (OSWEGO) def.
Scott Ferron (ECMT) 6-1, 6-1
6. John Stanford (OSWEGO) def.
Neal Statts (ECMT) 6-0, 6-3
Doubles Competition
1. Bujak/Pine (ECMT) def. Owens/Weiss (OSWEGO) 8-3
2. Waters/Mansell (ECMT) def. Van Hine/Thorn (OSWEGO) 8-2
3. Sam Carges/McCune (OSWEGO) def. Ferron/Statts (ECMT) 8-1