FRANKLIN, Ind. – The Webster University men's tennis team was back in action today when they traveled to Franklin, Indiana, to take on Trine (Ind.) University and Franklin (Ind.) College for a doubleheader. The Gorloks split the matches as they fell to Trine by a final score of 7-2 and then beat Franklin by a final score of 6-0. Webster improves to 2-2 on the year.
In their first match of the day against Trine, Webster had a tough time as they were swept in doubles and went 2-4 in singles.
Matthew Birchmeier and
Alex Pinkston nearly took #1 doubles but fell to Cole Goodman and Drew Dixon in a tiebreaker by a final score of 9-7.
After falling in #1 singles and #2 singles,
Nicholas Granada was able to get the Gorloks on the board in #3 singles. He fell in the first set of the match but came back to win by scores of 6-4 and 10-8 to take #3 singles.
Matthew Birchmeier picked up the second point for Webster as he defeated Caleb Morris in #5 singles by final scores of 6-2 and 6-4.
The Gorloks had a great showing against Franklin as they started off the match with a doubles sweep.
Alex Pinkston and
Matthew Birchmeier defeated Dustin Garrison and Layton Stieneker by a final score of 8-0 in #1 doubles.
Cody Neal and
Nicholas Granada won #2 doubles over Lucas Densford and Erza Schwier by a final score of 8-5.
Britton Struewing and
Carson Fisher defeated Nathan Jarboe and Shay Kyser in #3 doubles by a final score of 8-2.
Webster carried over their momentum into the singles portion of the match and were able to win all three matches that finished before a stoppage due to weather.
Nicholas Granada won #3 singles as he defeated Owen Pickerill by final scores of 3-6, 6-0, and 10-8.
Carson Fisher won #4 singles as he defeated Layton Stieneker by final scores of 6-4 and 6-2. Lastly,
Cody Neal defeated Lucas Densford in #6 singles by final scores of 6-2 and 6-2.
Alex Pinkston,
Britton Struewing, and
Matthew Birchmeier did not finish their matches.
The Gorloks will return to the court on Saturday, September 17
th when they travel to Greenville, Illinois, to take on the Loras (Iowa) College Duhawks at 1 p.m. and the Greenville (Ill.) University Panthers at 5 p.m. The matches will take place at Greenville University.
