BETHLEHEM, Pa. - Fresh off a 5-2 victory against Quinnipiac Sunday, the FDU men's tennis team (2-1, 0-0 NEC) repeated Wednesday by the same score - this time against Lehigh, the first win for FDU over the Mountain Hawks since 2010.
Jeff Brandes' FDU side continued their dominance in singles play with the Burgundy and Blue now 11-7 in dual match singles competition this season.
Freshman
Joshua Oboniye - who has shined in doubles play - logged his first career singles win at the sixth position against Lehigh in his first singles match as a Knight.
Of Knights who competed,
Justas Trainauskas, the reigning NEC Rookie of the Year, boasts the longest active win streak at two-straight singles victories with Obinye and junior
Arjun Sriram have now won two of their last three matches paired together as a tandem.
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Doubles
First Doubles: Jordan Paul/Jeremy Learner (LEI) def.
Justas Trainauskas/
Thomas Linley (FDU), 6-4
Second Doubles:
Mehdi Dhouib/
Younes Adnane (FDU) def. Matt Kleiman/Marc Blekhman (LEI), 6-3
Third Doubles:
Arjun Sriram/
Joshua Oboniye (FDU) def. Michael Bukhalo/Jackson Morash (LEI), 7-6 (7-2)
Order of finish: 2, 1, 3
Singles
First Singles: Trainauskas (FDU) def. Kleiman (LEI), 6-3, 6-1
Second Singles: Dhouib (FDU) def. Learner (LEI), 6-4, 6-3
Third Singles:Â Sriram (FDU) def. Wyeth Anzilotti (LEI), 6-3, 6-3
Fourth Singles: Blekhman (LEI) def.
Gryffin Minor (FDU), 6-0, 6-2
Fifth Singles:Â Morash (LEI) def. Linley (FDU), 6-2, 6-2
Sixth Singles: Oboniye (FDU) def. Steven Nazaroff (LEI), 6-1, 6-3
Order of finish: 4, 1, 2, 3, 5, 6
The Knights are off for a week until they take-on in-state foe Monmouth in Little Silver, N.J. on Wednesday, Feb. 15 at 9:30 p.m.
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