Easton, Mass. - The Adelphi University men's tennis team dropped its third Northeast-10 Conference match on the road to the Stonehill College Skyhawks on Tuesday afternoon, 7-2, inside the Sally Blair Ames Sports Complex.
Both teams entered the match with a 2-2 record in league play, slotted in the sixth and would-be final playoff spot, but it was the home team who led after doubles and powered through to five singles wins.
Trent Newman and Thomas Bellio provided the keynote for the Skyhawks (8-6, 2-3 NE10) clinched the lead for Stonehill after doubles play by knocking off
Matteo Cannavera and
Sabin Adrian Saveluc, the ninth-ranked doubles team in the Oracle/Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) East Region doubles rankings, 8-6 at the top flight.
Adelphi's (2-8, 2-3 NE10) lone win in singles came at the hand of Cannavera, as the eighth-ranked singles player in the region came from a set down to defeat Bellio at the top spot, 1-6, 6-3, 6-4.
The Panthers are back in action on Thursday, when they host Franklin Pierce University in a 3:30 p.m. NE10 contest at the Point Set Racquet Club in Oceanside, N.Y.
Doubles
1. Thomas Bellio/Trent Newman (STO) def.
Matteo Cannavera/
Sabin Adrian Saveluc (ADE) 8-6
2.
Ilya Kalabukhau/
Luke Attride-Stirling (ADE) def. Russell White/ManuRavichandrakumar (STO) 8-5
3. Nikolay Lisichenok/Tom Buckley (STO) def.
David Robres de Veciana/
Connor Dove (ADE) 8-3
Singles
1.
Matteo Cannavera (ADE) def. Thomas Bellio (STO) 4-6, 6-3, 6-4
2. Trent Newman (STO) def.
Sabin Adrian Saveluc (ADE) 6-2, 3-6, 6-0
3. Russell White (STO) def.
David Robres de Veciana (ADE) 6-1, 6-1
4. ManuRavichandrakumar (STO) def.
Ilya Kalabukhau (ADE) 6-3, 6-7(4), 6-3
5. Nikolay Lisichenok (STO) def.
Luke Attride-Stirling (ADE) 6-1, 6-1
6. Tom Buckley (STO) def.
David Leader (ADE) 6-1, 6-1
About Adelphi Athletics
Adelphi University joined the Northeast-10 Conference in the fall of 2009, and in the past eight seasons, has collected 26 regular season conference titles, 28 tournament championships, 37 individual crowns and captured the Northeast-10 Presidents' Cup four times (2013, 2014, 2016 and 2017), while winning six NCAA Division II National Championships.
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