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Eric Poland (Credit: Dave Saffran)
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West Windsor, NJ – The No. 2 seeded Wagner men's tennis team earned a 4-2 victory over the No. 7 seed, St. Francis Brooklyn, in the quarterfinal round of the 2018 Northeast Conference (NEC) Championships on Friday morning held at the Mercer County Tennis Center.
With the victory, the Seahawks, who improve to 13-8 on the year, have now qualified for the NEC semifinals for the fourth-consecutive season. The Terriers conclude the 2017-18 campaign with a 4-14 overall record.
Wagner will square off against the No. 3 seed, Saint Francis U Red Flash, in tomorrow's semifinals. The Red Flash earned a 4-1 win over the sixth-seeded, Sacred Heart University Pioneers.
The Green & White opened the morning session securing the doubles points, in jumping out to a 1-0 advantage. Juniors
Anatoliy Lashkul and
Dale Sandy got past Alejandro Ridruejo and Francisco Blanco, 6-2 at Flight No. 1. Sophomore
Dylan Walters and junior
Eric Poland blanked Javier Navarro/Pablo Blasco-Torres, 6-0, at No. 2 to clinch the doubles point for the Seahawks.
The Terriers got on the board at No. 1 singles as Ridruejo outlasted Walters, 7-6 (8-6), tying the match at 1-1. Blanco put St. Francis Brooklyn ahead by one, after defeating sophomore
Hans Ohrner, 6-3; 6-3 at No. 3 as SFBK led 2-1.
Sandy earned a 6-0; 6-1 victory at No. 6 in knotting the match at 2-2. Senior
Charlton Boyd was bested Stefan Gmijovic, 6-0; 6-1, as Wagner went ahead 3-2. The No. 2 match between Lashkul and Javier Navarro went unfinished at 4-6, 6-4, 1-3 as the match would be decided at No. 4.
Poland and Guillermo Artiz were scheduled to compete in this winner-take-all contest. Artiz took the first set, 6-4, before the Fort Meyers, FL native rallied back, with a 6-2 winner in the second set. The veteran Seahawk closed out the match with a 6-2 win.
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