Trinity Beats Mary Washington to Take Fifth at Men's ITA Indoors

Trinity Beats Mary Washington to Take Fifth at Men's ITA Indoors

(Story taken from the Trinity University website)

FREDERICKSBURG, Va. - The 10th-ranked Trinity Tigers men took fifth place Saturday at the  ITA Division III National Indoors with a 6-3 victory over host Mary Washington.Trinity (2-4) won two of three doubles  and four of six singles matches. The clincher for the Tigers came at No. 2 singles, as Bobby Cocanougher beat Kaz Murata 7-5, 7-5. Box Score

Erick DelaFuente and Max Frey won No. 2 doubles with an 8-2 victory over Kevin Aquino and Riley Baver. Ben Carroll and Don Murray were the winners at No 3. doubles, taking out Will Apperson and Alex Blakhin 8-2. Mary Washington's Kaz Murata and Sam Wichlin beat Bobby Cocanougher and Cory Kowal 9-8 (1) in No. 1 doubles.

DelaFuente captured No. 3 singles, defeating Blakhin 6-1, 6-1. Greg Haugen continued his winning ways, by beating Riley Baver 6-2, 6-3 at No. 6 singles.

The tightly -played No. 1 singles match went to Wichlin, a 7-5, 1-6, 6-4 winner over Frey. Apperson beat Kowal 2-6, 7-6 (7), 10-8 at No. 4 singles.

Trinity's Julio Benavides won No. 6 singles, the last match on the court, with a 6-4, 7-6 victory over Kevin Aquino.

Earlier in the day, Trinity defeated ninth-ranked North Carolina Wesleyan 6-3 in the consolation semifinals.

The Tigers, who lost 6-3 to No. 5 California-Santa Cruz Friday, opened the match by winning two of three doubles. DelaFuente and Frey took out Fred Lemongo and Artisom Prostak 8-4 at No. 2 doubles. The No. 3 match went to Carroll and Murray, 8-5 winners over Kierau Bertsch and Marcello Prata.
 
Frey led the charge at No. 1 singles, as the Tigers captured four matches. The top singles match went to Frey, who defeated Rinat Khussainov 6-2, 6-2.
 
Cocanougher won No. 2 singles, beating Antii Saari 6-2, 4-6, 7-5. DelaFuente emerged as the winner of No. 3 singles, defeating Alexy Rumyantsev 3-6, 6-2, 6-4. Haugen claimed a  a 6-3, 7-6 (3) victory over Lemongo at No. 6 singles.
 
Trinity will host junior college powerhouse Tyler JC, and Division II member St. Mary's, next Saturday in two dual matches at Delavan Tennis Stadium.