#1 CMS Stags Tennis used dominant doubles play to earn 9-0 and
8-1 wins over Occidental and Point Loma Nazarene on Saturday at the
Biszantz Family Tennis Center. The Stags got their fourteenth and
fifteenth doubles sweeps of the year, and move to 22-1 overall
while completing regular season SCIAC play with a 7-0 record. CMS
will enter the SCIAC post season tournament as the top seed on May
2-3 at Cal Lutheran.
Nik Marino (Jr. - San Diego, CA) was
the only Stag to play singles in both dual matches, earning
clinching straight set wins at the #2 position. Against Occidental,
Marino helped anchor the top half of a Stags singles lineup that
yielded only four games. Warren Wood (Jr. - Del Mar, CA) was a
6-0, 6-1 winner over the west region's twelfth ranked singles
player Josh Dancu at #1, while freshman Daniel Morkovine (San Carlos, CA)
notched his seventeenth singles win of the year at the #3 spot.
Sophomore Bryan Mehall (Snowmass Village,
CO) put CMS up 7-0 at #4, before Rohan Shankar (Fr. - San Jose, CA) and
Neel Kotrappa (Sr. - La Verne, CA)
completed the scoring for the Stags at #6 and #5 respectively.
Keeping the same doubles lineup and five new singles players,
CMS dictated early against Division II Point Loma Nazarene and
never let up. Freshman Max Macey (Wilton, CT) was first off
among the Stags' singles players, winning the last nine games at #6
for his tenth win of the year. Similarly, Glenn Hull (Fr. - Brookings, OR)
trailed 3-1 in the first set at #5, before rattling off eleven
straight games for a 6-3, 6-0 win to put CMS up 6-0. Sophomore Skyler Butts (Santa Ana, CA) was
challenged at #3, but held on in two tough sets for his
twenty-third singles win of the year, while senior captain Zhenya Pereverzin (Clackamas, OR) won
his sixth straight dual match, this time at the #4 position.
CMS resumes dual match action on Monday, April 21 at 5:00 PM
with a non-conference matchup against NAIA opponent Concordia
University.
#1 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (9) vs.
Occidental (0)
April 12, 2014 at Claremont, CA (Biszantz Family Tennis
Center)
Doubles
1. Joe
Dorn / Warren
Wood (CMS) def. Josh Dancu / Eric Kazangian (Oxy) 8-0
2. Neel
Kotrappa / Skyler
Butts (CMS) def. Kevin Siebs / Trevor Brown (Oxy) 8-3
3. Nikolas Marino / Zhenya
Pereverzin (CMS) def. Avery Chernin / Avery Howard (Oxy)
8-0
Singles
1. Warren Wood (CMS) def. Josh Dancu (Oxy) 6-0, 6-1
2. Nikolas Marino (CMS) def. Kevin Siebs (Oxy) 6-1, 6-0
3. Daniel Morkovine (CMS) def. Eric Kazangian (Oxy) 6-2, 6-0
4. Bryan Mehall (CMS) def. Trevor Brown (Oxy) 6-1, 6-3
5. Neel Kotrappa (CMS) def. Avery Chernin (Oxy) 6-4, 6-2
6. Rohan Shankar (CMS) def. Avery Howard (Oxy) 6-3, 6-4
Order of
completion
Doubles: 3, 1, 2
Singles: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 5
#1 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (8) vs. Point
Loma Nazarene (1)
April 12, 2014 at Claremont, CA (Biszantz Family Tennis
Center)
Doubles
1. Joe
Dorn / Warren
Wood def. Brooks Baldinger / Mikey Zablan (PLNU) 8-1
2. Nikolas Marino / Zhenya
Pereverzin (CMS) def. Martin Blaho / Kaptan Kaster (PLNU)
8-3
3. Neel
Kotrappa / Skyler
Butts (CMS) def. Daniel Milliken / Kevin McKelligan (PLNU)
8-3
Singles
1. Brooks Baldinger (PLNU def. Joe Dorn (CMS) 6-3, 6-4
2. Nikolas Marino (CMS) def. Mikey Zablan (PLNU) 6-2, 6-1
3. Skyler Butts (CMS) def. Martin Blaho (PLNU) 6-4, 7-5
4. Zhenya Pereverzin (CMS) def. Kaptan Kaster (PLNU) 6-4, 6-1
5. Glenn Hull (CMS) def. Daniel Milliken (PLNU) 6-3, 6-0
6. Max Macey (CMS) def. Kevin McKelligan (PLNU) 6-2, 6-0
Order of
completion
Doubles: 1, 2, 3
Singles: 6, 2, 5, 4, 1, 3