Men's Tennis | 3/17/2015 11:45:00 PM
WHITTIER, Calif. – Whitman College's 15th-ranked men's tennis team didn't take long to jump back into the win column following a challenging weekend as the Missionaries on Tuesday quickly downed host Whittier College, 9-0, in a non-conference match at the Poets' Richard Ettinger Tennis Courts.
It could only have been slightly more dominant during doubles play at three Whitman (11-4) tandems swept through Whittier's offering allowing the Poets (1-7) to capture just two games. The teams of
Colton Malesovas and
James Rivers at No. 1 and
Zach Hewlin and
Jake Hoeger at 2-doubles blanked their opponents by identical 8-0 scores.
Chase Friedman and
Robert Carter rolled to an 8-2 win at No. 3 to provide the Missionaries with a lightning-fast 3-0 advantage.
Singles play wasn't much slower as all six players for Whitman won in straight sets. By far the longest match was at 2-singles where Hewlin dueled Whittier's David Stanko with Hewlin racing to a 6-2 win in the opening set and then outlasting Stanko 7-6 in the second.
Only in one other match did Whittier capture a total of five games, in three others it wrestled only four games away from Missionary players, and at 6-singles Carter displayed dominance equal to doubles action with a 6-1, 6-0 victory over the Poets' Joseph Laguna.
Whitman is right back on the courts Wednesday morning with a scheduled battle with No. 10 Bowdoin (Maine) College at the Biszantz Family Tennis Center on the campus of Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges in Claremont, California.
