April 7, 2010

The Patriots men's tennis team got back in the win column with a 6-1 victory at Morgan State. Four of the matches went three sets or into tiebreaker sets as Mason improves to 8-12.

The first four singles matches were well contested. The Patriots Patrick Mulquin won his match at No. 3 in three sets, winning the first then the third. The No. 2 and No. 4 matches were decided in a tiebreaker, with Mason's Kevin McMillen and Greg Donabedian winning their matches respectively. Morgan State Kevon Charles defeated Jorge Osuna at the top singles position, 6-6 (7-5), 6-1, (10-4) for the lone Bears point.

The Patriots won the No. 2 and No. 3 doubles matches for the doubles point. The team of Donabedian and Devin Leonard improve to 7-4 on the season with the win and McMillen/Mulquin improve to 2-1.

Mason finishes the regular season this week with Drexel at home Wednesday and on the road at LaSalle, Hofstra and Rider this weekend.

Mason 6 Morgan State 1 April 6, 2010

DOUBLES
1 Ward/Charles def. Osuna/Coster (Mason), 8-5
2 Donabedian/Leonard (Mason) def. Chekhlatyy/Benjamin, 8-4
3 McMillen/Mulquin (Mason) def. Thomas/Lee, 8-1
SINGLES
1 Kevon Charles def. Osuna (Mason), 6-6 (7-5) 6-1 (10-4)
2 McMillen (Mason) def. Dimitry  Chekhlatyy, 5-7 6-4 (10-5)
3 Mulquin (Mason) def. Eric Ward, 6-2 2-6 6-4
4 Donabedian (Mason) def. Aaron Benjamin, 6-3 7-6 (7-2)
5 Coster (Mason) def. Duwane Thomas, 6-2 6-1
6 Sanghvi (Mason) def. James Lee, 7-6 7-5