WILLIAMSVILLE, NY – The Niagara men's and women's tennis teams took on the Monmouth Hawks for its final dual match of the season and the women picked up a 4-3 win while the men fell to the MAAC leading Hawks, 7-0.
Match Recap
Women's Singles
• Monmouth's Gasser defeated Elena Mayet in three sets 3-6, 6-1, 6-2, on court one.
• In No. 2 singles, Monmouth's Klapman picked up a 6-1, 6-1 win over Megan Gamble.
• Coral Rodriguez picked up a win in No. 3 singles over Jamir, 6-1, 6-4
• Jaida Borg defeated Mills in the four spot 6-2, 6-2.
• Erika Gonzalez picked up her 11th dual singles win at the No. 5 spot over Pax 6-1, 6-3
• Mercedes Velasco clinched the match for Niagara with a three-set match win over Landstrom. The freshman took the No. 6 dual, 4-6, 6-1, 6-2.
Women's Doubles
• Gasser and Jamir defeated NU's Gamble and Gonzalez, 6-3 in the top doubles flight.
• Monmouth's Klapman and Pax topped Mayet and Velasco 7-5
• Mills paired with Landstrom to defeat Madigan Humiston and Rodriguez, 6-2, in No. 3 doubles.
Men's Singles
• Van Noord topped Niagara's
Trevor Masi in three sets, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4
• Bezborodov took the No. 2 dual against
Manuel Alonso, 6-4, 6-2
• The No. 3 singles dual saw
Tanner Bedard fall to Castro in three sets, 7-6 (5-0), 6-4.
• Monmouth's Silva dispatched
Jorge Sedeno in No. 4 singles, 6-4, 6-1.
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William Gothlin dropped the No. 5 singles match to Monmouth's Penman, 7-5, 6-3.
• Massam topped Niagara freshman
Gurustat Makkar in the sixth spot, 7-5, 6-4
Men's Doubles
• Van Noord teamed up with Penman to defeat Masi and Bedard, 7-6 (10-0)
• In no. 2 doubles, Castro and Massam picked up a win over Alonso and Gothlin, 6-4
• Dussaubat and Zeiler picked up a 6-1 win over
Eduardo Villalpando and Sedeno in No. 3 doubles.
Up Next
• The Purple and White will head to West Windsor, NJ for the MAAC Men's and Women's Tennis Championships, presented by VisitNJ. Both the men's and women's teams will be the No. 4 seed and take on the top seed in the semifinals on Saturday, April 23.