Men's Tennis Continues to Roll

MADISON, N.J. (April 18, 2010) – The Rangers improve to 4-0 in the Landmark Conference as they defeated Catholic, 8-1 this afternoon. The Rangers took all three doubles matches to start off the day and lost only one singles match in a tiebreaker to hand the Cardinals their second conference loss of the spring.

Matt Brisotti (Mattituck, N.Y./Mattituck) won his third-straight match in number two singles 6-0, 6-0 and teamed up with Alex Belflore (Knowles, England/TASIS) to capture a 8-3 doubles win. The doubles win would mark the third straight win for the duo and they improve to 6-3 on the year.

The doubles tandem of Raul Smego (Ponce, Puerto Rico/Academia Christo Rey) and Elliott Smego (Ponce Puerto Rico/Academia Christo Rey) won their fifth-straight number one doubles match as they took down Daniel Velverde and Michael Schinella, 8-4. Velverde would get his revenge as he took Raul to three sets in number one singles and eventually won in a tiebreaker, 11-9.

The Rangers will return to action when they travel to Selingsgrove, Pa. to take on the Crusaders next Saturday at 1:00.

Singles competition
1. Daniel Valverde (CUA) def. Raul Smego (DREW) 3-6, 6-3, 11-9
2. Matt Brisotti (DREW) def. Michael Schinella (CUA) 6-0, 6-0
3. Alex Belfiore (DREW) def. Jean Paul Roman (CUA) 6-1, 6-2
4. Elliot Smego (DREW) def. Joe Gribbin (CUA) 7-5, 6-0
5. Matt Imbo (DREW) def. Rubin Tian (CUA) 6-2, 6-3
6. Jon Pransky (DREW) def. Kyle Kramer (CUA) 6-1, 7-5

Doubles competition
1. Raul Smego/Elliot Smego (DREW) def. Daniel Valverde/Michael Schinella (CUA) 8-4
2. Alex Belfiore/Matt Brisotti (DREW) def. Jean Paul Roman/Rubin Tian (CUA) 8-3
3. Victor Kolarov/Matt Imbo (DREW) def. Joe Gribbin/Kyle Kramer (CUA) 8-3