CHARLOTTE, N.C. – The seventh-seeded Presbyterian College
men's tennis team took on No. 2 Radford in the first round of the Big South Men's
Tennis Championship on Thursday afternoon in Charlotte, N.C., and, despite several close scores,
fell, 4-0.
“Radford's pretty tough and we battled as hard as we could,”
said Director of Tennis Operations Patric Hynes. “We're a young team and we're
definitely heading in the right direction. We showed a lot of fight; some days
you play teams that are pretty solid and that happened today.”
PC ends the regular season
with an 11-14 overall record. Radford improves to 20-3.
Radford captured the doubles point as Grayson Mills
(Lilburn, Ga.) and Rafael Berghaus (Offenbach, Germany) fell to Ivan Salec and
Thomas Dehean, 8-2 in the top flight and Zachary Sprouse (Hilton Head, S.C.) and
Edward Snead IV (Greenwood, S.C.) came up short to Nicholas Sayer and Joe
Mills, 8-4.
The third match stopped with the Highlanders ahead 6-3 once
the doubles point had been decided.
Radford took three singles matches before the dual ended,
4-0.
Andrew Brigham (Birmingham, England) narrowly dropped the
first set against Joe Mills in the third flight, 6-4, before Mills sealed the
win with a 6-0 second set victory.
Nathan Crocker (Clinton, S.C.) faced Dehean in the sixth
flight. Crocker, playing in his sixth match of the season, battled hard but dropped
both sets by a 6-1 margin.
Sprouse took on Stijn Meulemans in the fifth flight and came
up short in the opening set, 6-0. Sprouse improved in the second but ultimately
fell, 6-3.
The reigning Big South Crons Brand Freshman of the Week Berghaus
dropped the first set to Sayer, 6-4, and led the Highlander 5-4 in the second before
play was stopped.
Gonzalo Asis (Madrid, Spain) battled Igor Ogrizek in the
fourth flight nearly took the first set before Ogrizek earned the frame in
tiebreaker, 7-6 (7-0).
Grayson Mills took on Salec in the top flight, falling 6-4
in the first set and trailing 5-2 in the second. Mills offered an impressive
display of fight against Salec, who has lost only one match this season.
Singles competition
1. Ivan Salec (RU) vs. Grayson Mills (PC) unfinished
2. Nicholas Sayer (RU) vs. Rafael Berghaus (PC) unfinished
3. Joe Mills (RU) def. Andrew Brigham (PC) 6-4, 6-0
4. Igor Ogrizek (RU) vs. Gonzalo Asis (PC) unfinished
5. Stijn Meulemans (RU) def. Zachary Sprouse (PC) 6-0, 6-3
6. Thomas Dehaen (RU) def. Nathan Crocker 6-1, 6-1
Doubles competition
1. Ivan Salec/Thomas Dehaen (RU) def. Grayson Mills/Rafael Berghaus (PC) 8-2
2. Stijn Meulemans/Igor Ogrizek (RU) vs. Andrew Brigham/Gonzalo Asis (PC) unfinished
3. Nicholas Sayer/Joe Mills (RU) def. Zachary Sprouse/Edward Snead IV (PC) 8-4
