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Match Recap: Men's Tennis | 3/24/2018 7:00:00 PM

Men's tennis wins Landmark opener at Moravian

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#1 Doubles
FINAL	1
Caris, Ryan / Spinello, Tyler [ETOWN]	8
Chris Csencsits / Isaac Schefer [MOR]	0

#2 Doubles
FINAL	1
Boheim, Tristan / Strobel, Nick [ETOWN]	3
Peter Demyan / Mason Hudnall [MOR]	8

#3 Doubles
FINAL	1
LeMaire, Julian / Ryzuk, Michael [ETOWN]	8
Sean Kearns / Mike Palmeri [MOR]	6

Order of Finish: 1, 2, 3

#1 Singles
FINAL	1	2
Caris, Ryan [ETOWN]	2	2
Peter Demyan [MOR]	6	6

#2 Singles
FINAL	1	2	3
Spinello, Tyler [ETOWN]	6	5	7 ⁷
Isaac Schefer [MOR]	3	7	6 ⁵

#3 Singles
FINAL	1	2
Boheim, Tristan [ETOWN]	6	6
Austin Grace [MOR]	4	2

#4 Singles
FINAL	1	2
Strobel, Nick [ETOWN]	7	6
Mike Palmeri [MOR]	5	1

#5 Singles
FINAL	1	2	3
LeMaire, Julian [ETOWN]	7	1	1 ¹⁰
Mason Hudnall [MOR]	5	6	0 ⁸

#6 Singles
FINAL	1	2	3
Schneider, Alec [ETOWN]	4	6	1 ¹⁰
Sean Kearns [MOR]	6	4	0 ⁷

Order of Finish: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Results

ALLENTOWN, Pa. -- Elizabethtown picked the perfect time to break through with its first win of the spring.

The Blue Jays prevailed in their Landmark Conference opener against Moravian on Saturday afternoon, a match much closer than the 7-2 final score indicates.

Ryan Caris and Tyler Spinello set the tone for the day with an 8-0 sweep at first doubles against the Greyhounds' Chris Csencsits and Isaac Schefer. Elizabethtown (2-5, 1-0 Landmark) also pulled out an 8-6 win at third doubles behind Julian LeMaire and Michael Ryzuk to lead 2-1 going into singles.

Peter Demyan pulled Moravian (3-3, 0-1) even for the second time with a 6-2, 6-2 win over Caris at No. 1, but the remaining five matches went to the Blue Jays --albeit not without drama.

Sophomore Tyler Spinello outlasted Schefer in a back-and-forth battle at No. 2. Spinello claimed the first set 6-3, but Schefer responded in the second, winning 7-5 to extend the match. Simply playing a third set wasn't enough. The two competitors went to a tiebreaker in the decisive set, where Spinello locked up a huge point for the Jays 7-6 (5).

There was no such suspense in the third and fourth flight matches, where E-town won in straight sets. Tristan Boheim defeated Austin Grace 6-4, 6-2, and Nick Strobel escaped a tight first set to hold off Mike Palmeri 7-5, 6-1.

LeMaire and Alec Schneider each collected wins in a super tiebreaker to give the Blue Jays five of a possible six points in singles play. LeMaire downed Mason Hudnall 7-5, 1-6, 10-8, while Schneider rallied from a set down to beat Sean Kearns 4-6, 6-4, 10-7.

Saturday's match was moved indoors to Winning Touch Tennis in Allentown after a midweek snowstorm left Moravian's on-campus Hoffman Courts unplayable. It was also the first league match for both teams. E-town was picked fifth in the Landmark Preseason Poll and the Greyhounds were tied for seventh.

Elizabethtown returns to action on Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 in a non-conference match at Lebanon Valley.

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