| Box Score 2 WORCESTER, Mass.— The Babson College men's tennis team had strong showings in both singles and doubles Saturday and Sunday at the Holy Cross Invitational against both the host Crusaders as well as Assumption College.
 
Seven of Babson's eight players all picked up at least one win in Saturday's singles session, and the Beavers were represented in both the A and B bracket finals in Sunday's doubles session.
 
SINGLES
Sophomore Mason Nguyen (El Dorado Hills, Calif.) and first-year Dylan O'Connell-DeCerchio (Santa Monica, Calif.) both went 2-0 in singles for the Beavers. Nguyen rallied for a 1-6, 6-3, 10-7 triumph over Camilo Illanes of Holy Cross and cruised to a 6-1, 6-1 victory over Michele Elia of Assumption, while O'Connell-DeCerchio came back from a set down in a 6-7 (2-7), 6-3, 10-7 win over Illanes and also rallied past Luigi Bassani of Assumption, 5-7, 6-3, 10-6.
 
Graduate student Ryan Patrick (Darien, Conn.) beat Ezequiel De la Plaza of Holy Cross 6-2, 6-2, junior Louis Bourn (Geneva, Switzerland) was a 6-1, 4-6, 11-9 winner over the Crusaders' Colton Parker, and senior Martin Mejia (Cali, Colombia) bested Holy Cross' Lucas Bikkesbakker in three sets, 6-2, 4-6, 10-7. First-year Sourish Gadhi (Morganville, N.J.) downed Assumption's Igor Kubalka 6-2, 6-3 and fellow rookie Ronit Gupta (New Delhi, India) topped Assumption's Jakob Bordt 6-2, 7-5.
 
DOUBLES 
Senior Alexander Merson (Palisades Park, N.J.) and sophomore Edward Wang (Burr Ridge, Ill.) took top honors by winning the A Doubles flight with three straight victories. They defeated Patrick Ling and Matt Carlson of Holy Cross in round one, 8-7 (7-2) and took down De la Plaza and Prokopis of the Crusaders in the semifinals, 8-2, before winning the final over Igor Kubalka and Elia of Assumption, 8-6.
 
First-year Max Lidman (Stockholm, Sweden) and Patrick advanced to the B Flight finals for the Beavers. The Babson duo downed Kristoffer Podenphant and Alec Pijnacker of Assumption, 8-1, in the first round and got past teammates Gupta and Nguyen in the semifinals, 8-7 (7-5), before falling to Teddy Callery and Aayush Jhaveri of Holy Cross in the final, 8-6. Gupta and Nguyen won a first-round match over Holy Cross' Prokopis and Illanes, 8-3.
 
The Beavers will compete in the MIT Invitational next weekend, beginning Friday in Cambridge, Mass.