April 26, 2008

Bloomsburg Wins PSAC Men's Tennis Title

BLOOMSBURG--The Bloomsburg University men's tennis team won the 2008 Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) title with a 5-1 win over Kutztown on Saturday.

The win gives the Huskies their first PSAC men's tennis title since 2003 and is the 21st men's tennis championship in school history.

The Huskies led 2-1 coming from doubles and picked up wins at number one singles by Dan Gal (South Park, PA/South Park); number three singles by Ryan Chow (Toronto, Canada) and at number six singles by Dan Phillips (Colchester, England). Phillips was named the tournament's MVP after earning four wins (two singles and two doubles) over the weekend. Bloomsburg goes to 14-5 on the year.

In the consolation match, East Stroudsburg beat Millersville by a 5-3 score.


Championship Match

Bloomsburg 5, Kutztown 1

Doubles:
1. Lukas Labitsch/Arpit Sharma (KU) def. Dan Gal/Mitch Zenaty (BU), 8-5
2.Ryan Chow/Daniel Phillips (BU) def. Andy Torrealba/Sendhur Gautham (KU), 8-3
3.Mitch Zenaty/Jeff Nuhfer (BU) def. Bobby Zerwick/Nick Gallagher (KU), 8-2
Singles:
1.Dan Gal (BU) def. Lukas Labitsch, 6-2, 6-1
2.Fernando Perez (BU) DNF Arpit Sharma (KU), 6-3, 2-1
3.Ryan Chow (BU) def. Andy Torrealba (KU), 6-2, 6-2
4.Mitch Zenaty (BU) DNF Bobby Zerwick (KU), 6-4, 4-2
5.Jeff Nuhfer (BU) DNF Nick Gallagher (KU), 1-6, 4-4
6.Dan Phillips (BU) def. Sendhur Gautham (KU), 6-2, 6-3

Consolation Match

East Stroudsburg 5, Millersville 3

Doubles:
1. Chris Matisse/Drew Slocum (MU) def. Jeff Kurz/Jared Howat, 8-3
2. Rob Mikolon/Julian Taibi (ESU) def. Dustin Speicher/Mark Treires, 9-7
3. Ryan Baxter/Will Norris (ESU) def. Bobby Zerwick/Nick Gallagher, 8-3
Singles:
1.Chris Matisse (MU) def. Jeff Kurz, 6-2, 6-1
2. Jared Howat (ESU) DNF Drew Slocum, DNF
3. Marty Makowski (MU) def. Sorgi (ESU), 6-1, 6-4
4. Julian Taibi (ESU) def. Mark Treires, 6-3, 6-2
5. Rob Mikolon (ESU) def. Dustin Speicher, 3-6, 6-1, 6-3
6.Zach Ontell (ESU) def. Corbin Holland, 6-3, 6-0