OLEAN, New York – Marist men's tennis won their third match in a row and closed out the weekend with a 6-1 victory over St. Bonaventure. The Red Foxes improve to 6-7 overall.

Lars Schouten and Max Darrington made swift work of D'Angelo/Estevarena, taking the third doubles pair down 6-1. Carlos Moreno and Piotr Sowinski battled hard in the first doubles spot, but dropped a tight match to Patwarchan/Malmberg 7-6. Christopher Gladden and John Oxner flipped the script in their match and earned a 7-6 victory against Rutkowski/Rivolo and pick up the doubles point.

Marist got wins from the first, second and fourth singles spot to clinch the win. Gladden defeated Patwardhan 6-1, 6-3 for his fifth consecutive singles win. Piotr Sowinski had the toughest match-up when he faced Malmeberg in the third singles spot, but ultimately won it in the tie-breaker set 6-4, 4-6, 6-3.
 

FROM THE COACH

"The men showed a great deal of heart and determination today against a very stubborn opponent." Remarked Director of Tennis Operations Gary Sussman.  "We didn't get to the hotel till after midnight, but they were focused and ready to play this morning.  Chris Gladden continues to play the best tennis of his career at second singles, and special kudos to Piotr Sowinski, who has been under the weather recently, but played his best match of the year and pulled out a three set win at third singles.  Overall, a superb team effort."
 

UP NEXT

Men's tennis will play in its first home match of the season at the Tennis Pavilion on March 30 against Siena at noon.
 

SINGLES

S1 Lars Schouten def. Martin Estevarena 6-0, 6-3
S2 Christopher Gladden def. Indra Patwardhan 6-1, 6-3
S3 Piotr Sowinski def Lukas Linden Malmberg 6-4, 4-6, 6-3
S4 John Oxner def John Rutkowski 6-3, 6-4
S5 Marco Rivolo def Kian Yazdi, 6-4, 3-1
S6 Jack Sequerth def Jonni Heikkila 6-1, 6-0
 

DOUBLES

D1 Patwarchan/Malmberg def Carlos Moreno/Sowiwski 7-6
D2 Gladden/Oxner def Rutkowski/Rivolo 7-6
D3 Schouten/Darrington def Logan D'Angelo/Estevarena 6-1