NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Niagara’s top duo of Brandon Gallegos and Michael Elortegui knocked off conference foe Fairfield’s No. 1 doubles team, 9-8 (7), in the second round of the USTA/ITA Northeast Regionals.

Gallegos and Elortegui held their nerves to pull out a victory against the doubles team of Dennis Zlobinsky and Ian Tesmond. Last season, Fairfield’s doubles teams went undefeated (18-0) in conference play.

Gallegos and Elortegui advanced to face the seventh-seeded team from Cornell on Sunday. 

David Raymond’s run ended on Saturday when he fell to Princeton’s Matija Pecotic, 6-3, 6-1. Raymond hung on in the first set against Pecotic, who is the No. 1 seed at the ITA and was ranked 67th nationally in the preseason.