Men's Tennis Tops Whitworth, Falls At LC State In Split Squad Action

3/15/2025 11:40:00 PM

Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 The Whitman College men's tennis team split a pair of matches today, topping Whitworth 6-1 in Northwest Conference play but falling 5-2 at Lewis-Clark State College.

Whitman 6 Whitworth 1
SPOKANE, Wash. - The Blues (8-4, 8-0 NWC) kept it rolling in Northwest Conference play with an impressive victory at Whitworth in the Battle of the Whits. The win keeps Whitman at the top of the standings as the league's lone unbeaten team. George Fox sits only one game back at 7-1.

Whitman quickly clinched the doubles point with wins on the No. 2 then No. 1 courts. Charles Rush and Artem Manov won 6-1 at the two before Noah Baker and Alexander Stage took town Whitworth's top flight pair of Matthew Morrison and Henry Preacher, 6-2.

Stage and Lucas Huang easily won at first and third singles to put the Blues on the brink of the win. Stage swept Morrison 6-2, 6-2 at the one and Huang topped Easton Weir 6-1, 6-1.

The match-clincher wasn't achieved easily as Cameron Yang rallied from a set down at the two to beat Ryan Ashley 3-6, 6-2, 6-3.

LCSC 5 Whitman 2
LEWISTON, Idaho - The Blues sent the other half of their team to Lewiston, Idaho to play Lewis-Clark State College for the second time this season. Whitman fared much better in this matchup which started with them claiming the doubles point.

Chris O'Farrill and Luca Viarengo kickstarted the doubles success with a solid 6-2 win on the No. 3 court. The Warriors squared matters but the first doubles team of Hanri Luo and Diego Guzman edged Juan Pablo Naranjo and Pablo Herrera 7-5 to win the doubles point.

Singles play saw three matches go to three sets but with the Blues only able to win one of the six. That victory came at the three where Jackson Wurzer rallied from a set down to top Naranjo 6-7 (7-1), 6-3, 6-1.

The Blues now head to Southern California for a mammoth eight-game non-conference road trip which begins on Tuesday, March 18 with neutral matches against Bowdoin College and Babson College.

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