Siena Men's Tennis put together a dominant team effort in defeating Colgate 7-0 back on their home courts of the Tri-City Tennis Center on Sunday.
The Saints (6-5) won four singles matches and all three matches in the doubles flight by straight sets and gritted out a pair of three-set tie-breaker wins from
Agustin Suarez and
Andrea Moro to keep the shut out intact.
Suarez responded after dropping the middle set to edge past Ben Graham 6-2, 6-7 (6-8), 1-0 (10-8) from the singles #3 spot. Moro had to rally after losing the first set 6-4 to the Raiders' Mikey Weitz with a 7-6, 1-0 (11-9) come-from-behind victory at #6 singles.
Dante Russo,
Tomas del Olmo, Suarez,
Jose Pablo Davila and
Edward Vo each won two matches apiece on the day.
The Raiders dropped to 1-10 on the season.
Siena returns to the courts to play at St. John's (9-4) on Friday at 11 a.m. at the USTA National Tennis Courts in the third ever meeting between the schools.
FULL SCORES
Doubles
Dante Russo/
Edward Vo (SC) def. Selati/Israel (CU) 6-1
Agustin Suarez/
Matt Nardone (SC) def. Lee/Litton (CU) 6-1
Tomas del Olmo/
Jose Pablo Davila (SC) def. Caldwell/Fazli (CU) 7-5
Singles
Russo (SC) def. Selati (CU) 6-2, 6-4
del Olmo (SC) def. Litton (CU) 6-2, 6-3
Suarez (SC) def. Graham (CU) 6-2, 6-7 (6-8), 1-0 (10-8)
Davila (SC) def. Thomas (CU) 6-1, 6-4
Vo (SC) def. Gupta (CU) 6-1, 6-3
Andrea Moro (SC) def. Weitz (CU) 4-6, 7-6, 1-0 (11-9)