Box Score THE FACTS
Gettysburg competes in ITA Regionals
What: ITA Regional Tennis Tournament
When: Friday, September 29 – Sunday, October 1
Where: Fredericksburg, Va.
THE SKINNY STORY
Gettysburg men's tennis competed in the ITA Regional Tournament hosted by the University of Mary Washington, entering five competitors.
THE LEADERS
• The B2 Doubles team of
Adam Contract (Westfield, N.J./Westfield) and
Owen Kutlu (Mendham, N.J./West Morris Mendham) took an 8-6 win in the quarterfinal round and followed up with an 8-2 decision in the semifinal round to advance to the finals, where they fell 8-4 to the team of Casey Coffey and Dillon McReynolds of Hampden-Sydney.
THE REST OF THE STORY
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Adam Contract won his first singles match 8-3 against Tadeo Asprella of Goucher College before falling to Drew Campbell of the University of Mary Washington 8-4 in the quarterfinal round.
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Michael Zayneh (Portsmouth, Ohio/Heritage Academy) earned a win in the singles round of 16, defeating Sebastian Sierra of Lynchburg College 8-2, but dropped the quarterfinal match 8-0 against Soren Rudin-Aulenbach of Franklin & Marshall.
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Mikey Fellman (Rockville, Md./Thomas S. Wootton) won his championship singles consolation match in the round of 32 due to opponent injury, before losing 7-5, 6-3 in the round of 16.
• The championship doubles team of Fellman and
Alex Kagan (Guilford, Conn./Guilford) advanced to the round of 32 via a bye, but fell 8-5 to Keith Orr and Dominick Suwack of Shenandoah College.
NEXT UP
Gettysburg returns to action at Messiah on Friday. Match time is 4 p.m.