St. John’s Sweeps Marist, 7-0, for Second-Straight Win

Sunday, January 27

Queens, N.Y. (Cunningham Park)

1 P.M.

St. John's University

Marist College

St. John’s Sweeps Marist, 7-0, for Second-Straight Win

1/27/2019 8:39:00 PM | Men's Tennis

The Red Storm only dropped two sets in their commanding 7-0 victory over the Red Foxes.

By: Nicholas Diamantis

QUEENS, N.Y. – The St. John's Men's Tennis team continued its impressive form at Cunningham Park Sunday afternoon, sweeping the Marist Red Foxes, 7-0, to improve to 2-1 for the season.

"Today was a great all-around performance from the guys," said head coach Dillon Pottish. "It was the best doubles we've played so far this season and it carried us into singles play," added Pottish.

Andrei Crapcenco and Alex Roszkowski opened the doubles round with a 6-2 win in the No. 3 doubles match. Aditya Vashistha and Udayan Bhakar finished right after in the No. 2 doubles match, clinching the doubles point for the Johnnies with a 6-2 victory. In the No. 1 match, Alan Nunez Aguilera and Charlie James made it a three-win doubles sweep for the Red Storm with a 6-3 win.

Luka Sucevic took care of his No. 1 singles match against Marist's Piotr Sowinski, (7-5, 6-3). Dusan Vukicevic and Daniel Skripnik would need three sets to take home victories in their second and third flight matches. After trading the first two sets with Lars Schouten, Vukicevic managed to grab a 10-6 third set win to claim St. John's third point. Skripnik needed to win the last two sets after dropping the first set to Marist's Chris Gladden, (1-6, 7-5, 10-7).

Charlie James, Ognjen Trejgut, and Igor Maslov got their first singles wins of the season from flights 4-6, to guarantee the 7-0 sweep for the Red Storm.

St. John's returns to the court on Friday as they look to earn its first road victory of the season at Siena.

Match Results:

Singles:
Sucevic def. Sowinski (7-5, 6-3)
Vukicevic def. Schouten (7-5, 5-7, 10-6)
Skripnik def. Gladden (1-6, 7-5, 10-7)
James def. John Oxner (6-2, 6-3)
Trejgut def. Kian Yazdi (6-0, 6-3)
Maslov def. Jack Sequerth (6-2, 6-2)

Doubles:
Nunez Aguliera/James def. Sowinski/Yazdi(6-3)
Vashistha/Bhakar def. Gladden/Oxner (6-2)
Crapcenco/Roszkowski def. Schouten/Max Darrington (6-2)