Contact:
John Hartrick (hartrick@binghamton.edu)
ROCKFORD, Ill. - Binghamton men's tennis (2-1, 0-1 MAC) suffered a narrow 4-3 setback against host Northern Illinois (4-2, 1-0 MAC) in the team's opening match Friday afternoon at the Boylan Tennis Center.
The Bearcats grabbed early momentum by winning all three doubles matches to take a 1-0 lead. Singles wins by senior No. 2
Robin Lesage and junior No. 3
Eliott Hureau put BU one point away from a victory, but the host Huskies won the other four singles matches, including a pair of three-setters, to steal the home win.
"I'm proud of the progress that we have made in our doubles and we battled hard as a team but it is a very disappointing result today," head coach
Nick Zieziula said. "We can't drop matches after the taking the doubles and starting that strong in singles. We let a big opportunity slip today but if we learn from today we can take some big steps forward in the coming matches."
Binghamton finishes off the road trip with a match at Western Michigan at 11 a.m. Sunday in Kalamazoo.Â
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NIU 4, Binghamton 3
DOUBLES
1. Hazarika/Dinia (Bing) def. Daun/Cadieux, 6-2
2. Lesage/Hureau (Bing) def. Lundkvist/Hamel, 7-5
3. Caputo/Kote (Bing) def. Formont/Hjertonsson, 6-4
SINGLES
2. Robin Lesage (Bing) def. Fredric Cadieux (NIU), 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 4. Georg Lundkvist (NIU) def. Ismael Dinia (Bing), 7-6, 6-7, 7-5 5. Louis-Philippe Hamel (NIU) def. Thomas Caputo (Bing), 1-6, 6-3, 6-3 6. Carlos Manzanas (NIU) def. Frenk Kote (Bing), 6-3, 6-0 Â
