Men’s Tennis Falls to Ursinus, 6-1
WEST CHESTER, PA.- The West Chester men's tennis team (1-13) played their second home match of the week against Ursinus College (11-6) Thursday evening. Aidan Cashin (Mount Laurel, N.J./Lenape) earned a victory in fourth singles by a 3-6, 6-2, 6-2 final but this was the lone point of the day for the Golden Rams as the Bears escaped with a 6-1 victory.
West Chester started off the match with a third doubles 6-0 victory coming from Brady Burns (Narvon, PA/Pequea Valley) and Andrew Poprik (West Chester, PA/Unionville). Ursinus would tie the doubles contest with a 6-3 victory at first doubles focusing the attention to Lucas Henke (Rockwall, Tx/Rockwall-Heath) and Andres Urrutia (Guatemala City, Guatemala/APDE SOLALTO HS) at second doubles. The Golden Rams eventually fell 6-4 losing out to the all-important doubles point.
West Chester looked to mount a comeback comeback from its early 1-0 deficit as three of the six singles matches went to either a deciding set or tiebreaker. Ursinus went on to take control of the first, fifth, and sixth singles spot clinching the 4-0 victory before Cashin got West Chester on the board with his victory at fourth singles.
Doubles:
Lars Jespersen / Will Oberholtzer (UC) def. Cesar DeJesus-Morales / Sam Robertson (WCU) 6-3
Ethan Yu / Darby Rogers (UC) def. Lucas Henke / Andres Urrutia (WCU) 6-4
Andrew Poprik / Brady Burns (WCU) def. Deniz Finkel / Noah Dichter (UC) 6-0
Singles:
Lars Jespersen (UC) def. Lucas Henke (WCU) 6-2 7-6
Ethan Yu (UC) def. Andres Urrutia (WCU) 0-6 6-3 1-0(6)
Darby Rogers (UC) def. Brady Burns (WCU) 6-3 4-6 7-5
Aidan Cashin (WCU) def. Will Oberholtzer (UC) 3-6 6-2 6-2
Teddy Snyder (UC) def. Cesar DeJesus-Morales (WCU) 6-3 6-0
Deniz Finkel (UC) def. Andrew Poprik (WCU) 6-3 6-4
Up Next:
West Chester will return to action on Saturday for its final PSAC match of the year against Shepherd. The match will be the Golden Rams' senior day and is to start at 1 pm.
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