
WISE, Va. --- The Tusculum University men's tennis team finished its 2022 regular season with a 7-0 sweep of UVA Wise Wednesday afternoon at the Humphreys Tennis Complex.
The 42nd-ranked Pioneers (12-7, 9-3 SAC) swept all three doubles matches without losing a game, then lost a total of five games in singles against the Cavaliers (5-16, 0-10 SAC).
In doubles play, Nathan West and Jacco Mensinga teamed for a 6-0 win over Dominic Hoffman and Luke Jarnigan at flight one, Kenta Kondou and Nathan Matsuguma beat John Robert Kilgore and Coleton Burke 6-0 at flight two, and Miles Ray and Frank Bonacia blanked Dylan Galenski and Siddarth Selvakumar 6-0 at flight three.
In singles, Ray beat Kilgore 6-0, 6-0 at flight four and Felipe Velasquez Quintana downed Selvakumar 6-1, 6-0 at flight six for a 3-0 Tusculum lead. Kondou earned the clinching point with a 6-1, 6-1 at over Burke at flight two, and Bonacia beat Hoffman 6-0, 6-0 at flight one for the Pioneers. Tusculum closed out the match with a pair of pro set wins, with Matsuguma defeating Jarnigan 8-1 at flight three and Ivan Ivars winning -1 over Galenski at flight five.
The Pioneers will participate in the upcoming SAC Men's Tennis Championship Tournament, which will be held April 21-23 at the Palmetto Tennis Center in Sumter, South Carolina. Tusculum will play its next match in the quarterfinal round on Thursday, April 21 at 9 a.m.