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West Windsor, NJ - After advancing to its third straight Northeast Conference (NEC) semifinals, the Wagner College men's tennis team's season came to close on Saturday afternoon as the No. 3 seeded Seahawks fell to the No. 2 seed, Saint Francis U, 4-1, in the 2017 Northeast Conference (NEC) semifinals.
 
The Green & White finish the 2016-17 campaign with an overall record of 14-8. The 14 victories on the season matched the 2014-15 Seahawk squad that also made it to the NEC semifinals.  Saint Francis U improves to 15-4 and will now take on No. 1 seed, Bryant, in the championship game on Sunday.
 
"The guys gave it everything they had today and couldn't be more proud of their performance all season," said second-year head coach Jason Sinkoff. "Even though we came up a bit short, we will build upon our recent success. We return everyone from this year's squad and know that we will work harder in the offseason to be stronger."
 
The Seahawks claimed the doubles point, 2-0, in taking the first point of the overall match.
 
At No. 2 Flight doubles, the pairing of freshman Dylan Walters (Johannesburg, South Africa/St. Stithians Boys' College) and sophomore Eric Poland (Fort Meyers, FL/Bishop Verot concluded the year with a 10-2 overall record and a  robust 7-2 mark in the No. 2 spot as they defeated Plamen Avuski and Eli Cerdan, 6-3.
 
At No. 3 Flight doubles, junior Charlton Boyd (Shreveport, LA/Loyola College Prep) and sophomore Ilya Kneppelhout (Woubrugge, Netherlands/Scala College Secondary School) finished with a team-leading 18-4 record as a pair, while going 8-2 at No. 3 after beating Arturo Dell'eva and Franz Luna, 6-3.
 
The Red Flash took the first three singles matches and closed out the semifinals with a 6-1; 6-4 victory at No. 5.
 
Looking towards the 2017-18 season, Wagner will bring back everyone on its roster, who went 103-75 overall this season in singles play, while posting a total of 70 wins in dual action.
 
For the second straight season, the Green & White had five players record double-digit win totals, led by both sophomore Anatoliy Lashkul (Kiev, Ukraine/High School #78) and freshman Hans Ohrner (Margate, FL/Coral Springs Christian Academy), each of whom earned 15 singles victories.
 
Ohrner made some history of his own, becoming the first-ever Seahawk to be ranked by the ITA when he was 115th in the nation back on January 19. 
 
Boyd needs just two singles wins to reach 50 for his career as he stands at 48-21 in three seasons on Grymes Hill. He already has garnered 50 career doubles victories after finishing 2016-17 with a record of 20-8 in doubles matches while posting a 9-3 mark out of the No. 3 position.

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