LCSC men’s tennis team defeats Lindenwood 6-3

05-12-08

MOBILE, Ala. – Rolling in both singles and doubles play, the Lewis-Clark State College men’s tennis team opened the 57th annual NAIA Men’s Tennis National Championships with a 6-3 win over Lindenwood at the Mobile Tennis Center on Monday afternoon. 

LCSC, now 13-10 overall, earned the right to face No. 1-ranked and two-time defending national champion Auburn Montgomery in the second round on Tuesday. Auburn Montgomery received a first-round bye. The match is scheduled to start at 11 a.m., Pacific time. 

In Monday’s match against the Missouri school, the Warriors won two of three doubles matches and then won four of six singles matches, including two in the final set. 

Jonatan Berhane and Oliver Stone were double winners for the Warriors. Berhane teamed up with Cedric Dufour for an 8-5 doubles win, and then won his No. 5 singles match 6-3, 6-5. Stone lost his first singles set, but bounced back to win 6-7, 6-1, 6-2, and then combined with Sebastian Kuhn to win 8-4 in doubles. Kevin Lee also picked up a key win in three games in singles play, winning 4-6, 6-4, 6-4. 

Arslan Mermut picked up LCSC’s other win with a 6-3, 6-2 triumph in singles play. 

Match 8: Lewis-Clark State (Idaho) def. Lindenwood (Mo.) 6-3

Doubles:

#1 - Cedric Dufour/Jonatan Berhane (LCS) def. Fabio Falcato/Renato Traldi (Lindenwood) 8-5
#2 - Diogo Claudino/Michael Vargas (Lindenwood) def. Kevin Lee/Arslan Mermut (LCS) 9-7
#3 - Oliver Stone/Sebastian Kuhn (LCS) def. Martin Capdeviole/Giovanni Moggia (Lindenwood) 8-4

Singles:

#1 - Falcato (Lindenwood) def. Dufour (LCS) 6-4, 1-6, 6-4
#2 - Lee (LCS) def. Claudino (Lindenwood) 4-6, 6-4, 6-4
#3 - Stone (LCS) def. Vargas (Lindenwood) 6-7, 6-1, 6-2
#4 - Berhane (LCS) def. Traldi (Lindenwood) 6-3, 7-5
#5 - Mermut (LCS) def. Vettard (Lindenwood) 6-3, 6-2
#6 - Capdeviole (Lindenwood) def. Mickael Sopel (LCS) 6-1, 6-2