Gardner-Webb Blanks Belmont Abbey, 9-0, in Men's Tennis Action on Monday
February 25, 2014 | Men's Tennis
Belmont, N.C. - Gardner-Webb men's tennis team, playing its third match in as many days, got back on the winning track thanks to dominant efforts in both singles and doubles play in a 9-0 win at Belmont Abbey's Reidy Tennis Center on Monday.
GWU (4-8, 0-2 BSC) swept all three doubles matches as well as all six singles matches Monday against Belmont Abbey.
The Runnin' Bulldogs battled to pick up a tough doubles point to open the match. The combo of freshmen Pepe Batalla and Nicholas Lofrumento won 6-1 at No. 3 doubles to get GWU off to a fast start while the other two matches were won by 8-6 margins.
Brendan Dempsey teamed up with Tyler Macy to win 8-6 at No. 2 doubles, outlasting Belmont Abbey's Eduardo Escobar/Damien Nelson pairing, while Benjamin Kaszás and A.J. Stillwell battled for an 8-6 triumph against Conner McMann/Juan Baez.
GWU won each of the six singles matches in straight sets to finish off the road win.
Kaszás, a sophomore from Budapest, Hungary, earned a 6-3, 6-1 victory over McMann at No. 1 singles.
At the No. 2 spot, Dempsey (Dublin, Ireland) cruised past Baez by a 6-1, 6-2 margin.
Batalla (Barcelona, Spain) won at No. 3 singles by a score of 6-0, 6-1 playing against Escobar.
At No. 4 singles, Macy (Elkin, N.C.) picked up a 6-1, 6-0 win over Belmont Abbey's Nelson.
Stillwell, a freshman from Wilmington, N.C., won 6-1, 6-1 against Aaron Mullenix at the No. 5 singles position.
At the No. 6 singles position, Lofrumento, a freshman from Cocoa Beach, Fla., earned a 6-1, 6-0 win against Jacob Melton.
GWU will look to carry the momentum off Monday's win into a busy week that includes matches on Thursday versus Wofford (2:30 p.m.) and on the road Saturday versus Brown.
