FLUSHING, N.Y. – On Thursday afternoon, the Queens College men's tennis team
(3-4 overall) bounced back in singles play to defeat the visiting Fighting Scots of Edinboro University
(5-4 overall) inside the Queens College Tennis Bubble to the score of 5-2.
Doubles Competition
The Knights went up against a new Division II foe for the first time in program history as they took on the Atlantic Region members Fighting Scots.
Queens took an early lead as the doubles duo of sophomore
Omar El Shehawey (Cairo, Egypt) / senior
Moritz Borges (Hunxe, Germany) were promoted to #1 singles for the first time this season. They would dispatch the pair of Bruno Sabio / Rocco Palombarini to the score of 6-3 for a 1-0 lead.
But the Fighting Scots would fight back and tie the doubles matches 1-1 as the #2 doubles duo of junior
Mariano Bibiloni (La Plata, Argentina ) / sophomore
Tim Ostheimer (Frankfurt, Germany) were defeated by Thibault Dorval / Maksymilian Braziewicz to the score of 6-4.
Queens would find themselves trailing 1-0 after the doubles competition as the #3 double pair of senior
Hugo Evangelista de Andrade (Goiania, Brazil) / Julius Schulte (Dusseldorf, Germany) fell to Kaio Sacchi / Ruben Acuna to the score of 6-3.
Singles Competition
The Knights would start their comeback attempt at #6 singles as sophomore
Francisco Gonzalez (La Plata, Argentina) swept Braziewicz in a hard-fought first set victory of 7-5 before shutting out his opponent in the second set to the score of 6-0 to tie the match 1-1.
At #5 singles Borges gave the Knights a 2-1 lead as he swept Sacchi to the score of 6-4, 6-3.
But the Fighting Scots would tie the match as Bibiloni fell 7-5, 6-3 to Acuna at #2 singles court.
Queens would reclaim the lead at #1 singles as junior
Kareem Rashad (Alexandria, Egypt) picked up a two-set sweep over Sabio to the score of 6-3, 6-4.
The Knights would clinch the match at the #3 singles court as junior
Lucas Demuth (Buenos Aires, Argentina) defeated Gustavo Martins to the score of 6-3, 7-5 for a 4-2 match lead.
Shehawey would complete the match with a three-set tiebreaker victory as he defeated Dorval to the score of 7-6
(7-4), 5-7, 1-0
(10-7) for a 5-2 overall win over the Atlantic region foes.
UP NEXT: Head Coach
Somadi Druker and the Knights will welcome longtime regional foe Adelphi University Panthers to Flushing on Tuesday (Mar. 15) afternoon. First serve is set for noon.
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