April 17, 2005

Garden City, N.Y. - The Adelphi men's tennis team traveled to Pleasantville, New York on Friday, April 15 to take on Pace University in a non-conference match-up. The Panthers pushed Pace to the limit but fell 5-4. On Saturday April 16 Adelphi played host to conference foe Philadelphia, falling 7-2. With the losses the Panthers fall to 1-8 overall and 1-5 in conference play.

Adelphi took two of three doubles matches against Pace and split the first four flights of singles before dropping the last two flights and the match. Against Philadelphia Zack Lister (Calgary, Alberta) and Nicolas Sanchez-Sousa (Bogotá, Columbia) won their doubles match for the second day in a row, but it was not enough as Adelphi fell, 7-2.

Men's Tennis returns to action on Sunday, April 17 when they travel to East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania for a 1:00 pm showdown.

Results:

Vs. Pace
Singles:
1. Paul Kosinski (P) def. Nicolas Sanchez-Sousa (AU) 1-6, 6-2, 7-6(7-5)
2. Zack Lister (AU) def. Diego Palacios (P) 7-6, 7-5
3. Marko Prljevic (P) def. Brandin O'Connell (AU) 6-7, 6-0, 6-2
4. Faheem Romi (AU) def. Ross Charbonne (P) 6-2, 6-3
5. Rich Pernesiglio (P) def. Jason Blaustein (AU) 6-0, 6-1
6. Boris Rolnik (P) def. Chris Lee (AU) 6-3, 6-1

Doubles:
1. Sanchez/Lister (AU) def. Palacios/Kosinski (P) 8-4
2. O'Connell/Romi (AU) def. Charbonne/Pernesiglio (P) 8-4
3. Prljevic/Dy-Buncio (P) def. Blaustein/Hampel (AU) 8-3

Vs. Philadelphia
Singles:
1. Othman Loudghim (P) def. Zack Lister (AU) 7-5, 6-3
2. Nicolas Sanchez-Sousa (AU) def. Mike Woods (P) 5-7, 7-6 (3) (5)
3. Phil Garabedian (P) def. Brandin O'Connell (AU) 6-3, 6-2
4. Anders Novesbly (P) def. Jason Blaustein (AU) 8-1
5. Derek Delguadro (P) def. Chris Lee (AU) 6-1, 6-3
6. Alex Richer(P) def. Gary Hampel (AU) 6-1, 6-0

Doubles:
1. Sanchez/Lister (AU) def. Woods/Garabedian (P) 8-3
2. Novesbly/Loudghim (P) def. O'Connell/Faheem (AU) 8-3
3. Cappola/Trinh (P) def. Lee/Blaustein (AU) 8-1