Men's Tennis | April 25, 2021
MERION STATION, Pa. - The La Salle men's tennis team closed out the 2021 regular season on Sunday with a matchup against Atlantic 10 foe Saint Joseph's. The Explorers dropped a 6-1 decision to the Hawks, with senior
Colin Lucius earning a singles win at No. 4.
HOW IT HAPPENED
- In a fairly evenly contested doubles point, Lucius and junior Nassim Fenjiro won at No. 2 but SJU won at Nos. 1 and 3 to take an early 1-0 lead.
- Lucius squared off against former teammte Francesco Mowrey, who played at La Salle for three seasons before transferring prior to 2019-20.
- Lucius took the first set, 6-4, before Mowrey came back to win a second-set tiebreak.
- The third super-tiebreaker went in favor of Lucius, 10-8, to earn his team a point.
- Freshman Dylan Tull also took his match to a third-set tiebreak, but his opponent Luis Janko won by a 10-8 margin.
UP NEXT
- The Explorers await seeding for the upcoming Atlantic 10 Championship, which will be contested at the USTA's National Campus in Orlando, Fla., beginning Thursday, April 29.
RESULTS
Saint Joseph's 6, La Salle 1
Doubles
1. Eshan Kanetkar / Nathan Perrone (SJU) def.
Rogelio Gonzalez /
Connor Merrill (LAS), 6-4
2.
Nassim Fenjiro /
Colin Lucius (LAS) def. Nickolas Frisk /
Francesco Mowrey (SJU), 6-3
3. Alex MacNeil / Johnnie Massart (SJU) def.
Brandon Caban /
Dylan Tull (LAS), 6-3
Order of Finish: 3, 1, 2
Singles
1. Perrone (SJU) def. Gonzalez (LAS), 6-0, 6-3
2. Frisk (SJU) def. Fenjiro (LAS), 6-2, 6-0
3. Kanetkar (SJU) def. Merrill (LAS), 6-0, 7-5
4. Lucius (LAS) def. Mowrey (SJU), 6-4, 6-7 (5), 10-8 (STB)
5. Massart (SJU) def. Caban (LAS), 6-3, 6-0
6. Luis Janko (SJU) def. Tull (LAS), 6-4, 5-7, 10-8 (STB)
