Results

POUGHKEEPSIE, NY (February 23, 2013) – The Vassar College men's tennis team fell to nationally ranked No. 22, Northeast Regionally ranked No. 6 and Liberty League opponent Skidmore College 6-3 Saturday afternoon in the Walker Field House.

No. 17 regionally ranked senior Andrew Guzick defeated No. 7 nationally ranked and No. 3 regionally ranked Oliver Loutsenko in a heated two sets, 6-4, 6-3.

The Brewers (3-5, 2-1LL) will next travel to Cambridge, MA to face Massachusetts Institute of Technology on March 1 at 6:00 pm before hitting the road again to face Brandeis University in Waltham, MA on March 2 at 1:00 pm. Skidmore (2-0, 1-0LL) will next host New York University on March 2 at 11:00 am.

The 6-3 score does not do the match justice in terms of how close it actually was. The doubles play gave spectators and participants a taste of how the remainder of the day was going to be. It was a definition of a battle.

Guzick and senior Dan Freeman fought a close match against Loutsenko and Danny Knight but fell 9-7. Senior Nick Jasso and freshman Daniel Cooper had a superbly close match against Jimmy Sherpa and Alec Hoblitzell. The Vassar duo fell 9-8, (8-6 in the tiebreaker).

Freshman Christian Phelps and senior Josh Kessler fell in another close loss to Skidmore's Kit Green-Sanderson and Nick Tong, 8-4.

Vassar showed that if the doubles had gone differently, they would have upset the nationally ranked team with the addition of their singles play. Jasso pulled out a huge third-set win against Hoblitzell, 6-3, 6-7, 6-0 while Phelps added a solid, 6-3, 6-3 victory over Skidmore's Knight to Guzick's earlier win against Loutsenko.

Freeman fought a close first set against Thoroughbred, Sherpa at the No. 2 lineup spot. Sherpa pulled away, 7-6 in the first set before the 6-0 second set win.