Box Score
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St Bonaventure, N.Y. (March 16, 2014) - The Men's tennis team lost a hard fought 4-3 match to Division I Saint Bonaventure University.
Roberts struck first as the British tandem of Charlie Farres and
Sam Thorold defeated Bonaventure's Eduardo Irizarry and Javier Ortiz by an 8-2 score at first doubles. This extends their unbeaten streak to 10 matches. Bonaventure would take the next two doubles 8-3 and 8-5.
The Redhawks fell in the first round of singles giving Bonaventure a larger lead. Farres was able to keep Roberts in it with a 7-5, 7-5 victory. The Redhawks would lose the next two singles, but come back for the last 2 points. Junior
Emanuel Rauchle defeated Tim DeSanto 6-3. 6-4 at sixth singles and Sophomore Rob Beer won in a hard fought third set tiebreaker, 5-7, 6-3, 10-4 over St Bonaventure's Trevor Haskell to complete the scoring.
Coach
Tom Linhart reflected on this week's games, "This has been a hard fought yet productive week for us. We secured the NCCAA East Region championships, won two matches over ranked DII teams and played fearless against a strong DI opponent. We need to carry that momentum into our match Wednesday at RIT."
The loss puts the Redhawks at 7-4. They play again this Wednesday March 19
th against RIT at 4pm.
