Nov. 1, 2009
Complete Results
ITHACA, N.Y. - Sophomore Matt Himmelsbach (Longmeadow, Mass.) of the Marist men's tennis team captured the Flight C singles draw at the Cornell Tournament on Sunday morning. He took a straight set victory from Evan Algier of Binghamton 6-2, 6-2. Marist had two other players in main draw finals and a third in the consolation finals.
Junior Rhys Hobbs (Sydney, Australia) captured the consolation finals on Sunday with a win over Joe Zelic from Niagara. Hobbs won in two sets, 6-3, 6-2.
Juniors Nicolas Pisecky (Lausanne, Switzerland) and Marcus von Nordheim (Munich, Germany) advanced to the finals with wins on Saturday in Flights B and D, respectively. Pisecky lost his match in Flight B to Alex Haggai of Binghamton in a three set match. The set scores were 6-7, 7-6, 6-1 in favor of Haggai. In Flight D, von Nordheim fell to Alex Kaliman of Buffalo, 7-5, 7-5.
On Saturday night the team wrapped up the doubles draw. Ian Sims (Stow, Ohio) and von Nordheim advanced to the finals, after they defeated Algier and Rafael Rodrigues in the semifinals, 9-7. The Marist pair fell in the finals to Matt King and Dmitry Vizhunov of Temple, 8-5.
Marist will return to action in the spring semester.
