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Match Recap: Men's Tennis | | Noah Hughes, Assistant Athletic Director for Communications

Men’s tennis is SAA semifinal bound

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. - For the fourth-straight season, the Centre men's tennis team is moving on to the Southern Athletic Association (SAA) Tournament semifinals. The Colonels advanced after taking down Berry 5-1. 

The Gold & White team, seeded fourth, swept the doubles portion of the match against the No. 4 Vikings. The duo of Ty Bush and Bo Bush won their ninth match of the season as the top-ranked pair with an 8-3 win over Noah Koch and Jace Goode. Ben Rueff and Isaac Flanery remained undefeated in No. 2 doubles with an 8-2 decision over Bohdan Higley, and Drayton Matus. Jasper Gazzo and Chase Turley earned their fourth-consecutive win with a competitive 8-5 victory in the third-ranked doubles against Jake Chapman and Aiden Benoualid. 

A total of three singles matches were played to completion, with two being Centre wins. Ashton Whitt won the second singles series 7-6 (7-5), 6-2 against Koch to secure his sixth singles win of the year. Flanery won his singles match in a 6-0, 3-6, 6-0 extra set battle with Goode in the No. 4 slot. Rueff fell to Koch in the top slot by a tally of 6-1. 3-6, 4-6. 

Ty Bush was leading 6-1, 3-6, 5-4 in an unfinished battle at three with Chapman. Bo Bush was also on top of his match in the fifth-slot, leading 2-1 over Benoualid when the match was called.  

UP NEXT 
The Colonels take on the top-seeded Tigers of Sewanee tomorrow in the semifinals of the SAA Tournament. That match in Murfreesboro, Tenn. is set to start at 10 a.m. ET. 
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