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University of Connecticut
Army West Point Invite
Huskies Compete at Army West Point
10/28/2018 6:35:00 PM | Men's Tennis
WEST POINT, N.Y. – The UConn men's tennis team wrapped up the month of October with a weekend in West Point taking part in the 2018 Army Invitational. The three-day event featured a blind draw dual match format.Â
"I'm really happy with our doubles play and excited to see it showing in our results," state head coach Reinaldo Valor. "We have been executing with some great consistency against quality competition. I'm looking forward to see us continue our upward trend in our last fall competition next weekend."
The UConn doubles team of senior Justin Warren (Durham, N.C.) and junior Brady Flanagan (Overland Park, Kans.) went 3-0 on the weekend with wins over teams from St. Bonaventure, Marist and Sacred Heart. The duo won 6-3 over Bonnies' Marco Rivolo and John Rutkowski and won 6-4 over Marist duo Max Darrington and Kian Yazdi.
They closed out the weekend with a 7-5 win over SHU's Christopher Sause and Francisco Del Valle.Â
The team of sophomore Yili Zheng (Shanghai, China) and senior Hank Hill (Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.) won a pair of matches, beating Monmouth's Srdjan Jakovljevic and Will Cooke Wharton, 7-5 and the team of Lars Schouten and Piotr Sowinski of Marist, 6-2. The duo improved to a team-best 13-6 this season in doubles action.
Senior Jack McLister (Leesburg, Va.) and sophomore John Michael Holtmann (Coral Gables, Fla.) won a pair of matches as well, beating Monmouth's Max Benaim and Sergio Martinez, 6-4 and Sacred Heart's Seiji Hosokawa and Casalduc Pla, 6-2.
In singles play, the Huskies won five of their six matches against NJIT with Zheng, Holtmann, McLister, Warren and freshman Christian Provenzano (Montclair, N.J.) getting into the win column.
UConn will close out the fall season next weekend with an appearance at the annual Connecticut State Championship tournament held at Yale University.
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