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Match Recap: Men's Tennis |

About as Close as It Gets

SALISBURY, Md.  Methodist men's tennis finished Sunday with a trio of losses -- 5-4 to Goucher College, and a pair of 7-0 losses to Division II Lenoir-Rhyne University -- but the first defeat of the day could easily have been a win for the Monarchs against Goucher.

Playing at a neutral site (Salisbury University) Sunday morning, Methodist and the Gophers battled their way through five singles matches that went three sets, winning three of the marathons. But Goucher's 2-1 edge after doubles action allowed its three singles victories to stand up on the team scoreboard in a match that could easily have tilted in Methodist's favor.

THE ESSENTIALS
Final scores: Goucher def. Methodist, 5-4; Lenoir-Rhyne def. Methodist, 7-0 and 7-0
Records: Methodist 0-7, Goucher 2-0, Lenoir-Rhyne 3-1
Locations: Salisbury, Md., and Hickory, N.C.

HOW IT HAPPENED
  • Hayden Wilfong and Tyler Kane salvaged a doubles point in the Goucher match, securing the marker with an 8-4 win over Omosesan Adebamgbe and Slade Dumas at No. 2 doubles.
  • Goucher added a third point with a straight-set win at 1-singles, but the other courts were toe-to-toe battles.
  • Coleman Baker won the opening set at 2-singles, 6-3, before the Gophers' Michael Herman squared the match with his own 6-4. The third-set tiebreaker went Baker's way as he earned a 1-0 (10-8) set win for the match point.
  • Henry Murray at No. 4 followed the same script, winning the first set, dropping the second, but rallying back with a 1-0 (10-4) tiebreak win in the third.
  • At 5-singles it was Kane downing Adebamgbe, 6-4, 4-6, 1-0 (4) for another hard-fought Methodist point.
  • Goucher earned its match victory, though, with points from a Dumas win (2-6, 6-4, 1-0 (6)) over Wilfong at No. 3, and a Frankie Mullinix win (6-7(5), 6-3, 1-0(8)) against Henry Blanco at 6-singles.
  • Against Lenoir-Rhyne, Methodist earned moral points at 1-singles in both matches, as EJ Stolmeijer fought to 6-4, 6-2 defeat in the opening match, and Luke Laney battled in a 6-3, 6-2 defeat at the top spot in the late match.

UP NEXT
Methodist is slated for another doubleheader in its next outing, taking on host Barton College in two separate matches at 2 p.m. on Tuesday.
    
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