WEST POINT, N.Y. - Binghamton men's tennis lost pair of tight matches Sunday evening at the Lichtenberg Tennis Center, dropping identical 4-3 scores to Georgetown (2-4) and the host Black Knights (8-2).

Against Georgetown, BU took the doubles point but had two three-set singles matches go the wrong way in the narrow defeat. In the late night match against Army, BU again was strong at the top of the lineup with wins at first and second singles but the Black Knights won the doubles point and took the match with victories at 3-4-5. 

"We missed two great opportunities today for wins," head coach Nick Zieziula said. "Credit to Georgetown and Army for raising their games at the end to get the result. We had to juggle things around again due to injury and we showed resiliency to put ourselves in good positions but there is still a lot more we can clean up to raise our game."

Sophomore Shourya Verma won both his matches at No. 1 singles and added a clinching doubles win against Georgetown with sophomore partner Adi Ben-Ari. Verma has won five of his last six and has a team-high 12 wins this spring. Sophomore Kyle Weekes also went 2-0 at No. 2 singles.  

Binghamton had to play without regular No. 2 singles and No. 1 doubles player Dan Pergel. 

The Bearcats (1-8) return to the courts next weekend with matches at LIU Brooklyn (Sat.) and NJIT (Sun.).
 
Georgetown 4, Binghamton 3
DOUBLES

1. Weekes/Roe Flannelly (BU) def. Fellows/Rozanov (G), 6-2
2. Srivastata/Crawford (BU) tied with Foster/Bickel (G), 4-4
3. Verma/Ben-Ari (BU) def. Morgenstern/Sharma (G), 6-1

Order of Finish: 3,1
 
SINGLES

1. Shourya Verma (BU) def. Kieran Foster (G), 6-3, 6-4
2. Kyle Weekes (BU) def. Andrew Rozanov (G), 7-6, ret.
3. Jake Fellows (G) def. Joshua Roe Flannelly (BU), 5-7, 6-1, 6-4
4. Adhvyte Sharma (G) def. Anshumat Srivastava (BU), 6-1, 6-1
5. Akira Morgenstern (G) def. Adi Ben-Ari (BU), 2-6, 6-4, 6-2
6. Scott Bickel (G) def. Courage Crawford (BU), 6-3, 6-0

Order of Finish: 4,6,2,1,5,3

Army 4, Binghamton 3
DOUBLES

1. Huttepain/Eden (A) def. Weekes/Roe Flannelly (BU), 6-3 
2. Woodman/Huarte (A) def. Srivastata/Crawford (BU), 6-2
3. Verma/Ben-Ari (BU) def. Bodavula/Jose (A), 6-2

Order of Finish: 1,2,3
 
SINGLES

1. Shourya Verma (BU) def. Samuel Eden (A), 6-2, 3-2 ret.
2. Kyle Weekes (BU) def. Daniel Zhou (A), 6-3, 6-3
3. David Gorshein (A) def. Joshua Roe Flannelly (BU), 6-3, 6-1
4. Vishnu Bodavula (A) def. Anshumat Srivastava (BU), 6-2, 6-3
5. Samuel Haikal (A) def. Adi Ben-Ari (BU), 6-1, 6-0
6. Courage Crawford (BU) def. Paul Roberts (A), 6-3, 6-2

Order of Finish: 5,2,1,4,6,3