DANVILLE, Ky. - The home standing Centre men's tennis team got back on track with a 4-3 win over visiting Asbury University on Saturday afternoon. 

Division III schools are playing the 2024-25 season under the 7-point dual match format. The ITA and the NCAA announced the one-year, joint pilot of the scoring format in July of 2024. 

Ben Rueff and Ty Bush remained undefeated as a pair in the early spring season. The duo won 6-7 in no. 1 singles over Ignacio Ardiles and Franco Patino of the Eagles. 

Emilo Ventura Ramirez and Dylan Dethridge moved up to the second doubles position and gave Andres Caceres and Ben Moore a good fight in a 7-5 setback.  Chase Turley and Jasper Gazzo took over the no. 3 duo slot and fell 6-3 to Alejandro Caceres and Gregorio Bustingorri. 

The Colonels won four singles matches in the effort that clinched the win for Centre. Rueff took the top spot win in a match that went to three sets. The junior defeated Alejandro Caceres 6-3, 3-6, 6-3. Ty Bush kept the winning in order as he also gritted out a three-set win as the no. 2 seed. He took down Patino 4-6, 7-5, 6-4. 

It was the fifth and sixth seeded solo matches that would add the other two singles wins for the Colonels. Dethridge impressed in a 6-2, 6-3 drubbing of Andres Caceres in the no. 5 slot while Jett Anderson got the job done 7-5, 6-2 over Alejo Britos in the no. 6 match. 

Isaac Flanery put up a good fight versus Moore in the no. 3 singles match but fell in three sets 6-3, 5-7, 6-2. Gazzo also took a loss with a 2-6, 6-7 no. 4 match in favor of Ardiles. 

WRAPPING UP
A third-straight home match awaits the Colonels. Centre welcomes Campbellsville to the Seabury Family Tennis Center on Sunday at 5 p.m.