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Wesleyan tennis teams pick up road wins over Frostburg State

WVWC Tennis

FROSTBURG (Md.) — The West Virginia Wesleyan College men’s tennis team stretched its season record to 9-5 and 2-0 in the Mountain East Conference, Monday, with a 6-1 win over Frostburg State University and the women’s team beat Frostburg State in tight match play, 4-3, to go 10-4 on the season and 3-0 in the conference.

Wesleyan travels to league-leading University of Charleston on Wednesday, Apr. 10 for matches scheduled to begin at 3 p.m.

WVWC Men at Frostburg, W 6-1
Singles

1: Kihiro Karasawa defeated Cole Alcala 6-1, 7-5

2: Gianluca Gerndt lost to German Diaz 1-6, 1-6

3: Mika Kreisel defeated Peter Barun 6-4, 6-4

4: Takuya Kobayashi defeated Field Myatt 6-4, 6-2

5: Ricardo Starosta defeated Matt Bolen 6-0, 6-1

6: Giovani Pinhati defeated Noah Fisher 7-6, 7-5

Doubles

1: Karasawa/Platts lost to Alcala / Diaz 3-6

2: Gerndt/Kreisel defeated Barun / Del Carden 6-4

3: Kobayashi/Starosta defeated Myatt / Bolen 6-4

WVWC Women at Frostburg, W 4-3

Singles

1: Dominique Jansen defeated Alyssa Kush 7-6, 2-6, 6-4

2: Omolade Aderemi lost to Lauren Ceballos 3-6, 4-6

3: Sneha Sundaraneedi lost to Lorena Pintar 5-7, 4-6

4: Hailey Banda lost to Patricia Castejon 3-6, 2-6

5: Cayley Symons defeated Sydney 6-0, 6-2

6: Emily Lybarger defeated Hazel Honeycutt 6-1, 6-0

Doubles

1: Jansen/ Sundaraneedi lost to Kush / Ceballos 4-6

2: Aderemi / Symons defeated Pintar / Castejon 6-2

3: Banda / Lybarger defeated Ella Troxell / Goering 6-2

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