NORFOLK, Va. - A bout with an NCAA Division I team came for the Centre men's tennis team on Monday and the Norfolk State Spartans came out on top 7-0.
The loss dropped the Colonels to 4-5, while the Spartans moved to 7-9.
One win came for Centre and it was at no. 2 doubles.
Dylan Dethridge and
Isaac Flanery were up 5-1 when Vladisav Gorbatenko and Deniz Okyay defaulted.
Jett Anderson and
William Howell paired up for the first time this season and saw action in the no. 3 match. They faced Igor Kubalka and Luka Cvjetkovic and fell 6-4.
Ben Rueff and
Ty Bush were the top pair and fell 6-3 to Jakub Solarski and Frederick McRae.
Singles play saw all action wrap up in straight sets. Rueff fell to Gorbatenko in the top-seeded contest 6-2, 6-4. Bush was in the no. 2 slot and was set back by Solarski 6-1, 6-0.
In the back four matches each Colonel won multiple games.
Anderson Gosnell won four total games in a 6-1, 6-3 loss to Okyay in the no. 3 match.
Emerson Dean picked up two game wins in his 6-2, 6-0 losing effort to McRae in no. 4 action.
Chase Turley won one game in each set of a 6-1, 6-1 setback to Kubalka in the fifth-seeded contest. Howell won the second most games for the Colonels in singles thanks to a 6-3, 6-2 effort in a no. 6 spot loss to Cvjetkovic.
UP NEXT
Two more matches in Virginia await the Centre team on spring break. The next of those is at Washington and Lee on Wednesday, March 23 at 3:30 p.m.
