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No. 48 Men’s Tennis Collects Third-Straight Win, Sweeps Bullets 9-0

Danny Loder
Danny Loder

HAVERFORD, Pa. - The No. 48 Haverford College men's tennis team (8-5, 3-0 CC) earned their third-straight win, and third-straight conference win, by sweeping Gettysburg (6-4, 1-1 CC) by a 9-0 final on the Bettye Marshall and Norman B. Bramall Tennis Courts Saturday afternoon. The matchup was part of the Centennial Conference's week-long green out games for mental health, in collaboration with The Hidden Opponent.

Doubles play kicked off the matchup between the two conference foes, as the team of Justin Minerva and Adam Chow defeated Michael Zayneh and JP Damare 8-2, to give Haverford their first victory of the contest. On court one, Stefan Johnson and Marko Arboleda took down Alex Kagan and Adam Contract 8-6, while the pairing of James McKenzie and Kirin Eicher prevailed over Matt Porreca and Tyler Blanz 8-7 (7-4 tiebreaker), to give the Fords a comfortable 3-0 lead, with singles play on horizon.

In flight six, Danny Loder continued the Scarlet and Black momentum as singles began, dispelling Zayneh 6-1, 6-2, for Haverford's fourth point of the match, before Aiden Kim turned away Alex Kagan 7-5, 6-2, for the Fords match-clinching fifth point.

In flight three, Johnson got past Contract 6-3, 7-6 (7-3 tiebreaker), for the Scarlet and Black's sixth point, while Minerva earned his second victory of the day after a first-set tiebreaker, beating Blanz, 7-6, 6-4. 

With the Fords up 7-0, Chow defeated Ben O'Connor-Skloot 6-3, 6-4, while Arboleda came from behind to rattle off two straight sets in a 3-6, 6-3, 6-4, victory, sealing the deal for Haverford's 9-0 sweep over the Bullets.

Haverford returns to action with a tough test on the horizon for Wednesday, April 10, as No. 48 Haverford battles the ninth-ranked Garnet at the Faulkner Courts on the Swarthmore campus at 4 p.m.