DANVILLE, Va. - A back-and-fourth match for Centre men's tennis ended in a 4-3 defeat at the hands of the Averett University squad.
With Southern Athletic Association (SAA) play just around the corner, the Colonels hold a record of 4-7. The Cougars moved on to a 7-2 mark with the win.
Centre remained strong in doubles action. After losing the no. 3 match, where
Chase Turley and
Jasper Gazzo fell to Florian Bert and Alex Donnelly 6-2, the Colonels won the next two to secure the point.
Ty Bush and
Ben Rueff moved back above .500 with a win in the top match. They defeated Prabjeet Chandhok and Jaeden Mukkaladyil 7-6 (7-5) to move to 5-4 on the season.
Dylan Dethridge and
Isaac Flanery made it three wins in a row as they took Rafael Jodas and Sam Egui down 6-2 in the second-seeded contest.
Two members of the Gold & White team won in singles play and each went to three sets. Dethridge battled Chandhok and won 6-4, 2-6, 6-3 in the first singles win of the day for Centre.
Jett Anderson won his three-set thriller 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 against Jodas in the fifth-seeded match.
Those matches were not the only ones to require an extra set. Bush fought to force a third set in the top match after going down early but still fell 6-4, 5-7, 6-4 to Satwik Kollepalli. Turley won his first set but fell in the no. 6 contest to Lucas Fiandra by a tally of 4-6, 6-0, 6-2.
Rueff and Flanery fell in straight sets in the other two solo contests. It was a 6-3, 7-5 score versus Mukkaladyil that took down Rueff in the no. 2 match and a score of 6-0, 6-0 was what propelled Bert over Flanery in the third-seeded contest.
UP NEXT
Two SAA matches at home await the Colonels when they return from the spring break trip. The first of those matches is on Saturday, March 29 at 1 p.m. versus Hendrix.
