Old Westbury, N.Y. - The Adelphi University men's tennis team closed out the fall season with a 5-4 setback at New York Institute of Technology on Sunday, finish with a 2-1 record overall and a 1-0 mark in Northeast-10 Conference play.
The Bears put the Panthers against the wall with a sweep of all three doubles matches. Despite taking four of six bouts in singles play, Adelphi could not complete the comeback and played to its second 5-4 decision in as many days.
Chiwete Njokanma secured the most decisive win of the day, prevailing 6-4, 6-1 at No. 5 singles. The rest of the singles victories were tightly contested, particularly
Bryan Kallenberg's three set (4-6, 6-2, 6-4) win at the third slot.
Alan Chocron battled to a 6-2, 7-6 (9-7) win at No. 2 singles, and
Sander Brenner rounded out the winners by a 6-4, 6-4 score in the sixth position.
Results
NYIT 5, Adephi 4
Singles
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1. Dimofte, Mircea (NYITM) def. Andreas Hammar (ADE) 7-5, 6-2 |
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2. Alan Chocron (ADE) def. Lieb, Tomas (NYITM) 6-2, 7-6 (9-7) |
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3. Bryan Kallenberg (ADE) def. Peixoto, Pedro (NYITM) 4-6, 6-2, 6-4 |
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4. Salvador, Jamie (NYITM) def. Boris Tiberkov (ADE) 6-2, 6-1 |
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5. Chiwete Njokanma (ADE) def. Marcon, Julian (NYITM) 6-4, 6-1 |
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6. Sander Brenner (ADE) def. Maurtua, Eduardo (NYITM) 6-4, 6-4 |
Doubles
